Explore Søren Kierkegaard’s profound influence on existential psychotherapy, from his pioneering insights on anxiety and despair to contemporary applications by Irvin Yalom and other therapists. Comprehensive overview of the father of existentialism.
An exploration of how Karl Friston’s Free Energy Principle and Eugene Gendlin’s Process Model provide mathematical and philosophical validation for Carl Jung’s analytical psychology, revealing that Jung’s supposedly mystical insights actually captured fundamental principles of consciousness architecture that modern neuroscience is only now beginning to understand.
Eugene Gendlin’s revolutionary work on the felt sense reveals how trauma disrupts the body’s natural flow of experiencing and how political oppression shapes what we can feel and think. His Focusing method offers both a powerful trauma therapy approach and a framework for understanding liberation as the restoration of our capacity to carry life forward.
In the landscape of contemporary psychotherapy, a quiet revolution has been unfolding—one that moves us away from the primacy of thoughts and verbal processing toward the wisdom held in the body's deeper knowing. At the heart of this shift stands Eugene Gendlin, a...
An expert review for psychotherapists on technology integration in therapy. Covers AI’s role, neuro-tech like QEEG, VR for trauma, Polyvagal Theory, and an evidence-based review of the Alpha-Stim device for anxiety, insomnia, and depression.
Have you ever worked with a client who seems absolutely unable to see things any other way than their own? Someone who follows the same routines religiously and falls apart when something unexpected happens? Or maybe someone who insists there's only one right way to...
The Limitations of Current Trauma Diagnosis Leading trauma experts Gabor Maté and Bessel van der Kolk have long argued that the DSM-5's approach to trauma diagnosis fails to capture the complexity of how trauma manifests in different memory systems and...
Psychology, as a field, stands at a critical juncture. Over the past few decades, the focus has shifted away from the fundamental nature of human consciousness and towards a more mechanistic, symptom-focused approach to mental health. Manualized therapies, diagnostic...
How Ancient Myths Can Guide Modern Healing: The Work of Karl Kerényi As therapists who practice depth psychology, we often find that the ancient myths and stories of humanity hold profound wisdom for our modern lives. The patterns in these stories, or archetypes, can...
From Integration to Fragmentation: How a Radical Theory of Consciousness Explains Trauma The question of consciousness—how a physical brain creates our rich, subjective inner world—is one of science's deepest mysteries. For centuries, we've grappled with how fleeting...