Resources

Here are lists of philosophical, literary, and popular texts that I will draw on for exploring a variety of counseling issues and which I would be delighted to discuss with you in depth:

Identity:

Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition on who vs. what we are

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Genealogy of Morals

Martin Heidegger, Identity/Difference

Martin Buber, I and Thou

LGBTQ+:

Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, Volume One

Adrienne Rich, “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence”

Patrick Hopkins, “Gender Treachery: Homophobia, Masculinity, and Threatened Identities”

Jack Halberstam, Trans*: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variability

Alok Vaid-Menon, Beyond the Gender Binary

Kate Bornstein, My Gender Workbook

Women/Feminism:

Marilyn Frye, “Sexism”

Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

Carol Gilligan, In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women’s Development

bell hooks, feminism is for everybody: passionate politics

Leora Tanenbaum, Slut: Growing up Female with a Bad Reputation

Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist: Essays

Sonya Renne Taylor, The Body is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

Depression/Anxiety:

Hannah Arendt, Responsibility and Judgment

Martin Heidegger, Being and Time on existence as groundless

Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness on freedom as terrifying

Karl Marx, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 on alienation

Loss/Transitions:

Martin Heidegger, Being and Time on being-toward-death

Maurice Merleau-Ponty, The Phenomenology of Perception on bodily subjectivity

Kieran Setiya, Life is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help us Find our Way

Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking

Meaning/Value:

Plato, Apology

Susan Wolf, Meaning in Life and Why It Matters

Matt Haig, The Midnight Library