I recently acquired this painting by Kurt Knobelsdorf for my personal collection. In it, two women of color stand close together in front of a modest building. Their faces are indistinct, but their bodies lean into one another in a way that feels both tender...
On the postbox outside the grocery store in my hometown of Telluride, Colorado, a weathered sticker reads “Eat the Rich.” It’s a quiet provocation that captures a louder cultural mood—one that questions the moral and psychological costs of extreme wealth in an age of widening...
Integrating our identities into a healthy self-concept is central to our mental health and relational well-being. This can be challenging for patients of wealth due to the dissonance between how they view themselves and how they are viewed by others. In the following article, published June 16,...
This article was originally published March / April 2025 Volume 24, No. 2 in Family Therapy Magazine. FEATURES Family Therapy for Clients of Wealth: Extending Culturally Competent Care Through a Systemic Lens Paul Hokemeyer, JD, PhD That we are living in volatile times is not new news. The last...
Re: Wealth & Mental Health Over the holidays, I found myself re-visiting Thorstein Veblen's The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899). While Veblen's work was rejected by the elite institutions he challenged, his core concepts have endured and are highly relevant to my work at the intersection...
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...
Families are complex. Family businesses even more so. In this article, Dr. Paul Hokemeyer, the world's leading authority on issues relating to wealth and mental health provides a four step process, innovative family enterprises can utilize in mitigating financial and emotional stresses from a host...
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...
INVESTING IN GOOD MENTAL HEALTH AND FAMILY RELATIONS MAKES BUSINESS SENSE ARTICLE | 10 NOVEMBER, 2019 05:00 PM | BY JAMES BEECH Dr. Paul Hokemeyer at the London office of Drayson Mews. Dr Paul Hokemeyer, the internationally renowned clinical and consulting psychotherapist, reveals the signs of mental health distress that business...