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02/18/2025

I am happy to announce that the Missouri Bar Association's Missouri Lawyer's Assistance Program will be replaying my November 1, 2024 Presentation, 'Narcissism In The Legal Profession: Narcissism and its Vicissitudes'.

2024 29th Annual Missouri Lawyers' Assistance Program Conference - Virtual

01/14/2025

On January 23, 2025, at 7:00 PM, St. Louis County Library, Clark Family Branch, 2022 Pulitzer Prize finalist and former Wall Street Journal writer, Lee Hawkins’s riveting memoir examines his family’s legacy of post-enslavement trauma and resilience.

Lee Hawkins was a 2022 Pulitzer Prize finalist as a lead reporter on a series about the Tulsa Massacre of 1921 at the Wall Street Journal, where he worked for nineteen years. He is currently a 2023-2024 Rosalynn Carter Fellow for Mental Health Journalism at The Carter Center and was named the Josephine Albright Fellow by the 2024 Alicia Patterson Foundation Journalism Fellowship. Additionally, Mr. Hawkins has been recognized as a 2022-23 O’Brien Fellow for Public Service Journalism at Marquette University. Hawkins is a five-time winner of the National Association of Black Journalists’ “Salute to Excellence” Award. He is the creator and host of the podcast “What Happened in Alabama?”

St. Louis County Library Foundation’s Westfall Politics & History Series and the 2025 Black History Celebration are pleased to host Pulitzer Prize-nominated Wall Street Journal reporter Lee Hawkins for a discussion and signing of “I Am Nobody’s Slave: How Uncovering My Family’s History Set Me Free.”

2022 Pulitzer Prize finalist and former Wall Street Journal writer, Lee Hawkins’s riveting memoir examines his family’s legacy of post-enslavement trauma and resilience.

If you have an interest in Cross-Generational Transition of Trauma and Identification With The Aggressor this narrative will be fascinating.

SLCL Black History Celebration Launches with Journalist and Historian Lee Hawkins January 9, 2025 St. Louis County Library Foundation’s Westfall Politics & History Series and the 2025 Black History Celebration are pleased to host Pulitzer Prize-nominated Wall Street Journal reporter Lee Hawkins fo...

11/15/2024

-- CC subtitles have been corrected for your convenience --The short film is about a dangerous form of manipulation. Gaslighting means one person overpowers ...

10/15/2024

https://mobarcle.mobar.org/item/2024-29th-annual-missouri-lawyers-assistance-program-conference-658689

I am pleased to announce my talk for the Missouri Lawyer's Assistance Program (MoLAP), 'Narcissism In The Legal Profession' on November 1, 2024, in Jefferson City, Missouri.

Last year, I spoke to MoLAP on 'Trauma In The Legal Profession', discussed the Task-Performance Stress Curve, and how Compassion Fatigue, Secondary Traumatic Stress, and V-PTSD may dramatically alter an attorney's capacity to represent her/his client(s) in litigation, informing legal professionals of the Ethical vulnerability they face and the potential for Civil Liability when their caseload and cognitive load is overworked.

This year, I will discuss Healthy Narcissism, Unhealthy Narcissism, Pathological Narcissism, Narcissistic Defenses, Narcissistic Abuse, and how Domestic Violence Victims are uniquely vulnerable when engaging in custody litigation (both men & women). I will itemize these vulnerabilities for the Missouri Legal Profession, to assist Attorneys, GALs, and Judges with allowing themselves a deeper dive into the psychodynamics of varying Bias, Projection(s), Transference, and Countertransference as they appear in custody litigation.

09/17/2024

“Dreams that the memory retains are like the rumblings of distant volcanos or thunderstorms and reflect the depth and aliveness of inner battles”

Karen Horney, born this day, Sept 16, 1885

A pioneer in feminist psychology, her theories questioned some of Sigmund Freud's traditional approaches.

06/19/2021

It doesn't take Einstein to know that,

1) Everybody is a genius, and that
2) If you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its life,
believing it is stupid.

02/11/2021

Children in danger from the professionals intended to protect them...

https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/suspension-of-new-admissions-at-great-circle-in-webster-groves-followed-child-abuse-arrests-of/article_19f802a1-72dc-5674-a42c-96a836a4bdb8.html?fbclid=IwAR2XS40gGcxicHxdjJ4DyvpbxN-ejgALzSPAHtr2tV4K_T92UFAOyeHYFOw =stltoday.com&utm_campaign=%2Fnewsletter-templates%2Fbreaking&utm_medium=PostUp&utm_content=69ea4174a7012cf1682a6b661bc459f611819dad

Officials have declined to give details on the arrests last month of the workers on charges relating to child abuse.

09/19/2020

Hero to sooooo many. I bought RBG action figures for two young women a couple years ago; one wanting to work in non-profit management as a Social Worker and the second wanting to address social justice issues as a Licensed Attorney. They, among many others, will emulate different aspects of RBG's values and will carry on her legacy.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/18/us/ruth-bader-ginsburg-dead.html?fbclid=IwAR0dy0pOh_LQ9jqYdaMvQjDDFMRgSgW5oRtWaINmsdbPcCCbQ64TkHo7ikw

The second woman appointed to the Supreme Court, Justice Ginsburg’s pointed and powerful dissenting opinions earned her late-life rock stardom.

07/30/2020

Hello Everyone, I can confirm my presentation on Subpoenas for August 8, 2020 from 9 AM to 12 PM:

https://www.stlpi.org/subpoenas/

Subpoenas are one of those things most Clinical Social Workers hate about private practice. As Clinical Social Workers we have certain rights and responsibilities that are worth knowing. In order to understand these rights and responsibilities it is best to 1) review the MO Statutes regulating disco...

03/24/2020

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03/02/2020

Here is a nice article about the most important training I have received as a Social Worker. I say this with the understanding that my training in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, from the St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute, also informs my practice as a Certified Guardian ad Litem and attorney at law.

https://www.laduenews.com/business/promotions/nonprofit-spotlight-st-louis-psychoanalytic-institute/article_143af40a-2b7b-5f53-89d7-37604014a1f9.html

02/10/2020

As I grew tired of posting these articles I wondered how many US employers have fired UHC, Cigna, BCBS, Aetna, and WellPoint as it becomes clear that they have good cause. Or, perhaps this is not a concern of US employers or our Federal Government.

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2019/03/06/court-slams-unitedhealth-for-mental-health-care-access-restriction

A federal judge in Northern California handed Minnetonka-based UnitedHealth Group a major defeat in a lawsuit over access to mental health care. The count found the pressure to reduce costs infected company policies governing mental health coverage.