Explore the work of Stanislas Dehaene and his Global Neuronal Workspace Theory, revealing how brain networks ignite consciousness and why this matters for trauma treatment.
The Eternal Return of the Soul: How Modern Psychotherapy is Rediscovering its Ancient Roots Through Neuroscience
Discover how modern psychotherapy is rediscovering its roots. From Jung’s complexes to the somatic revolution, explore how neuroscience is validating ancient wisdom in the future of mental health treatment.
St. Augustine and the Foundations of Depth Psychology: How a Fourth-Century Bishop Became a Forefather of Modern Psychotherapy
Explore how St. Augustine’s Confessions shaped depth psychology and modern psychotherapy. Discover why Irvin Yalom values this fourth-century thinker and how Augustine’s insights on the divided will, unconscious motivation, and therapeutic confession remain vital for clinicians today.
The Melancholy Dane: Søren Kierkegaard’s Revolutionary Vision and Its Enduring Impact on Psychotherapy
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.
Karl Friston and Carl Jung: The Unnoticed Rehabilitation
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.
The Radical Presence of Eugene Gendlin: How Felt Sensing Transforms Trauma Therapy and Political Understanding
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.
Eugene Gendlin: A Biographical Timeline
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...
What Is Neurodivergent-Affirming Therapy? (And Why It’s Not About ‘Fixing’ You)
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.
Beyond PTSD: Rethinking Trauma Diagnosis Through Memory Systems and Targeted Treatment
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...
Reclaiming the Soul of Psychology: Recentering the Study of Consciousness in Psychotherapy
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...