An exhaustive analysis of the 15 biggest historical feuds in psychotherapy, from Freud vs. Jung to the modern Somatic vs. CBT wars. Explore the theories, the fights, and the modern verdicts.
Is the DSM Dying? Rethinking Suffering
A Critical Investigation into the Document That Defines American Mental Health—and Why It May Have Already Failed By Joel Blackstock, LICSW-S | Clinical Director, Taproot Therapy Collective Contents Introduction: The Controversial Bible Part I: The History of a...
From Gaslight to Weapon: When Therapeutic Language Becomes the Abuse
The Origin of a Word The term "gaslighting" traces to Patrick Hamilton's 1938 stage play "Gas Light" and its celebrated 1944 Hollywood adaptation starring Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer. In the film, a husband systematically manipulates his wife into believing she...
The Algorithmic Mirror: How Google Became the Invisible Architect of What We Know
Algorithmic English: How Google's Physics Rewrite Human Reality On the hidden physics governing digital reality, the economics of visibility, and why a psychotherapy blog in Birmingham had to learn the language of machines to fund human healing. There is a moment in...
The Invisible Hand: How the Greatest Scientific Discoveries Emerged from Intuition, Not Equations
What Einstein's elevator, Kekulé's snake dream, and Oppenheimer's abyss reveal about the primacy of subjective knowing, and why it matters for how we understand healing. There is a cultural artifact we all carry in our minds: the image of the genius physicist standing...
The Ground Truth Revolution: Why Academic Psychology Resists the Fastest-Growing Trauma Therapy in the World
An investigation into why psychological academia remains hostile to Brainspotting despite explosive clinical adoption. From epistemological gatekeeping to the economics of research funding, discover what the resistance reveals about the crisis in mental health science.
The Fifty Unsolved Mysteries of Being Human: What Science Still Cannot Explain About Your Mind and Body
Explore 50 fascinating unsolved mysteries of human psychology and biology—from why we dream and cry emotional tears to the uncanny valley and déjà vu. Discover competing scientific theories and the mysterious unknowns that still puzzle researchers.
When the State Became the Patient: A Clinical Examination of America’s Most Radical Psychological Experiments
An exploration of the dark laboratories where psychology, paranoia, and national security collided—and what these forgotten experiments reveal about the ethics of the therapeutic profession. The Fever Dream of Cold War Psychology For those of us who practice...
Fractal Fluency: Why Your Nervous System Hates Minimalism
Discover fractal fluency—the neuroscience of why natural patterns calm the brain while minimalist architecture stresses it. Learn how to create a “visual diet” for trauma recovery by designing environments with the right fractal dimension (D=1.3-1.5) to passively regulate the nervous system.
Psychotherapy’s Greatest Feuds: A Critical History of the Great Schisms in Psychotherapy
The history of psychotherapy isn't a clean scientific progression. It's a bloodbath. Fifteen feuds that shaped everything you do in the therapy room—and the verdict on who was actually right. The Dialectic of the Cure The history of psychotherapy reads less like a...