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Roughly one in three children between 18 months and six years old develops what developmental psychologists call an Extremely Intense Interest. The child does not simply like dinosaurs. The child knows that Parasaurolophus had a hollow crest, corrects the adults who...
Most people picture borderline personality disorder (BPD) as loud and visible: intense mood swings, frantic fear of being left, angry outbursts, and impulsive or self-destructive behavior. That picture fits many people. It misses others. Some people carry the same...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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.
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...