Arsalan Malik, M.D., Inc, Comprehensive Psychiatric Services

An article I wrote about the unfolding global refugee humanitarian disaster that will be published in the Southern California Psychiatric Society's newsletter this week. Hopefully, we can translate into action some of what is needed to help these human beings. http://armalikmd.blogspot.com//the-global-refugee-crisis-c

Is Love All You Need? A Review of Joseph Natterson MD's The Loving Self by Arsalan Malik, MD Psychotherapy is a labor of love. This is a trope as old as psychoanalysis itself. Freud himself famously wrote in a letter to Jung that psychoanalysis is essentially a cure through love. So, what do these analysts from Freud to Natterson mean when they use the word love in the context of psychotherapy? They don’t mean an erotic or physical love. Nor do they mean verbal flirtat...Continue reading