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…
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…
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…
