32 articles in this section.
A deep critique of modern psychotherapy, exposing the flaws in ‘Evidence-Based Practice,’ the anti-scientific nature of the DSM, and the STAR*D scandal. This article argues that the profit motive and a ‘low-trust’ model are stifling clinical innovation.
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Does Red Light Therapy Really Work? Every so often a treatment modality arrives that sounds too strange to be real. Shining infrared light through the skull to treat depression has that quality. It sounds like something sold out of the back of a wellness magazine, and...
Are we doing science to find out what is true, or are we doing science to produce numbers? Those are not the same job. At some point we quietly switched from the first one to the second one and kept the same name on the door. We built an enormous machine for...
Anna Freud's Impact on Freud's Biographical Scholarship The systematic efforts to control and sanitize the historical record surrounding Freud have had profound and lasting consequences for our understanding of psychoanalysis and its founder. The work of Frederick...
In 2014, a researcher in India thought the word "Hola." Five thousand miles away, in France, another person perceived a flash of light in their peripheral vision. Then another. Then nothing. Then another flash. The pattern meant something. The receiver decoded it. The...
The 90-Mile Medicine Gap: Inside the paradox of American pharmaceutical innovation: We lead the world in drug development but struggle to translate that into affordable, accessible care—while a small island nation under economic embargo may have developed better...
THE ARCHITECTURE OF AMERICAN MADNESS Leadership Dynamics, Economic Imperatives, and the Epistemological Crisis of Psychiatric Diagnosis By Joel Blackstock, LICSW-S Clinical Director, Taproot Therapy Collective "The DSM is not a description of nature. It is a...
You remember what you had for breakfast yesterday, but you can't recall years of your childhood. You have no visual memory of the assault, yet your body freezes when someone stands too close. You know the car accident happened, but when you try to tell the story, it...
From exposure therapy's limitations to the somatic revolution, from EMDR's established efficacy to Brainspotting's emerging promise, and why the future of trauma treatment lies in matching the therapy to the brain. The field of trauma treatment is undergoing a...