On symptoms, structures, and what genuine transformation actually requires People come to therapy wanting to feel better. That is not a small thing; it is the right instinct. Something is causing pain. Something is getting in the way. Something needs to change. The desire for relief is not weakness or impatience — it is the…
A depth psychology reading of Good Will Hunting and Dead Poets Society Some films reach inside you and find something you did not know was there. Not because they are manipulative; though some are. But because they tell the truth about something genuinely difficult; and in telling it well they create the conditions for recognition….
What Dead Poets Society gets right about the only life you have — and what depth psychology does with it There is a scene in Dead Poets Society that has stayed with me for decades. Robin Williams as John Keating — literature teacher, unlikely prophet — leads a group of privileged prep school boys to…
The neuroscience of spiritual experience and why it belongs at the center of serious clinical work There is a conversation happening at the intersection of neuroscience and spirituality that most therapy websites will never mention. It is too complex, too philosophically loaded, too easy to misread in either direction — toward reductionism on one side…
What the story of the cross and the empty tomb has always been telling us about the deepest work of being human. Whatever your relationship to Christianity — devout, skeptical, curious, or somewhere in the complicated middle — the story told at Easter is one of the most psychologically profound narratives the human imagination has…
Why DBT, IFS, and CBT are not departures from depth psychology — they are continuations of it There is a story told about modern psychotherapy that goes something like this — the field has moved beyond the mystical speculations of Freud and Jung toward something more rigorous, more measurable, and more evidence-based. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy…
