Mundane complaints hide deeper wounds, and Armand DiMele shows how to find them. Working live with Lisa Arnone, LCSW, he demonstrates how a throwaway statement like “I hate people who buy lottery tickets” can be guided, step by step, into a genuine first-person admission about fear, disappointment, and unmet need.
Blame is the enemy of intimacy. Armand DiMele and co-therapists Linda Vanella, LCSW-R, and Ora Yemini-Morrison, LCSW, trace how couples mistake internal anxiety for a partner’s wrongdoing, and what it takes to interrupt that reflex through body awareness, emotional vocabulary, and knowing when to simply stop talking.
What does a healthy mind actually look like? Armand DiMele and three colleagues, including Dr. Kent Robertshaw, MD, psychiatrist, and Dr. Scott Baum, PhD, psychologist, debate sanity, emotional complexity, and self-acceptance. They challenge the idea that primitive feeling equals health, and argue that genuine sanity demands refined introspection, not just the absence of symptoms.
Dolly Shulman, a Philadelphia psychotherapist who lost her mother at age six, shares how that early grief became the foundation of her lifelong work. Armand DiMele walks through her heartwarming workshops, where participants reconnect with childhood feelings, release buried emotions, and rediscover their inner essence.
Most people are not emotionally ill, just emotionally out of shape. Armand DiMele and Dr. Vivian Wolsk, Executive Director of the Gestalt Center for Psychotherapy and Training, explore emotional fitness, the body’s role in identifying feelings, the empty chair technique, and why negative programming feels so compelling.
