by Brian Balke | Jan 11, 2023 | Relationships
What does it mean to become an adult? We have social conventions that chart our progress: a driver’s license at sixteen, voting and sexual consent at eighteen, and tippling at twenty-one. While those milestones assume that we have achieved a level of maturity, few...
by Brian Balke | Jun 20, 2019 | Book Reviews
Life is change. For most of history, change was transmitted only through birth. Looking at the natural world, then, Darwin and his followers upheld the survival of our genes as the compulsion that drives our every behavior. In the mental health world, Freud also...
by Brian Balke | Feb 23, 2019 | Basics
Sex Of all the paradoxes of human behavior, none is greater than that the act most enhanced by love is driven by the emotions most likely to disrupt our relationships and corrupt our behavior. Considering animals, nature would appear wise in ensuring that physically...
