Mental Health and Wealth: Addressing difficult family issues through cultural competence and clinical excellence*. Dr. Paul Hokemeyer Key words: Wealth, UHNW, mental health, narcissism, author, family therapist, addiction treatment, family governance, family office, depression, anxiety, addiction, empirically based, Harvard, global leaders, thought leader, innovation, mft. When Tsitsi...
The field of mental health has an esteemed tradition of providing culturally competent care to human beings who live in the world as minorities. Historically, these minorities exist in positions of powerlessness relative to other people. Dr. Hokemeyer's work in the realm of mental and...
The success of HBO's hit show Succession is due in large measure to the public's obsession with people of wealth and power. Audience members are drawn into the Roy family drama because they simultaneously resent and envy what they think unlimited amounts of money can...
[caption id="attachment_332" align="alignnone" width="300"] Resolving family conflicts around money, wealth & entitlement. ESG investing[/caption] Families of all socioeconomic classes are subject to internal conflicts. When resolved through a clearly articulated process and in a contained frame, these conflicts enable families to evolve to higher levels of functioning. For...
Dr. Paul Hokemeyer on Imposter Syndrome This article was originally published August 19, 2021 in the U.K.'s leading employment news channel, Finito World, https://www.finitoworld.com/dr-paul-hokemeyer-on-imposter-syndrome/ Dr. Paul Hokemeyer Last week, I received the following text message from a former client, a female millennial, who received a substantial promotion and was...
In my experience in working with UHNW individuals and families around the world, I find it is the millennial generation and women who see the value in addressing the mental health and addictive disorders that exist in the field of entrepreneurship and in their families....
We are emerging from COVID_19 changed people into an altered world. Many of the families I work are only now beginning to see the full impact the pandemic on their lives, the lives of people they love and for whom they are responsible, and the...
In this article for the World Economic Forum, Marcel Muenster and I discuss the need for culturally competent and clinically effective mental health services in the realm of entrepreneurship. There is a mental health crisis in entrepreneurship. Here’s how to tackle it [caption id="attachment_332" align="alignright" width="300"] Entrepreneurs,...
This article was first published in the Addiction Professional. What patients and their families should look for when seeking out behavioural health services. “You’re an idiot, Hokemeyer. Actually, let me clarify that. You’re a *** idiot.” I was sitting across the room from a senior executive of a...
By Paul Leslie Hokemeyer, JD, PHD Privilege and adolescent addictions Perhaps the most prevalent cultural myth in America is that money and professional success are the salves that heal what ails us. When substance abuse strikes in a culture of affluence, the American dream of wealth and...