Everyone knows about the divorce. Freud and Jung, Vienna and Zurich, the letters crossing in the January mail of 1913, Freud telling his former crown prince to take his full freedom and spare him the supposed tokens of friendship. The theoretical grounds get taught in...
In 1952, a psychologist at the Institute of Psychiatry in London published a short review article with a flat title and a live charge inside it. Hans Eysenck was a behaviorist, a statistician by temperament, and a man constitutionally incapable of deference. "The...
Nolan’s 2026 Odyssey replaces Athena with a flashback, the Trojan Horse with the atomic bomb, and homecoming with futility. It is the most clinically literate blockbuster ever made about moral injury, and it still misses what the original poem understood: that the myth was not a mirror of trauma but a treatment for it. A depth psychology reading of both versions, from the trickster’s amputation to the marriage bed’s living root.
From Freud, Jung, and Adler to the Somatic Fourth Wave Every school of therapy is a defense structure. It forms to manage an unbearable anxiety, it hardens into doctrine, and it eventually meets the limit of what it was built to avoid looking at. The history of the...
Before there was a pink beard, there was a boy with an anger problem and a mother who knew what to do about it. Sebastian Kole grew up in Birmingham, the son of two preachers, raised by a father whose discipline ran close to military. When the anger started...
This article is dedicated to all the millenials that watched Yellowstone with their Dad. A young man sits across from me and tells me he has watched all of Yellowstone four times. He is not a rancher. He has never owned an animal larger than a dog. He works a job...
The strategic planning meeting concludes with unanimous approval. Heads nod around the table. The CEO beams. The initiative proceeds. Six months later, the project is a catastrophe. During the post-mortem, a strange truth emerges: nobody actually believed the plan...
The meeting devolves within minutes. Sarah argues that the product launch timeline is unrealistic. James counters that her concerns reflect negativity rather than legitimate analysis. The technical lead withdraws into her laptop, typing furiously while contributing...
The executive team announces a mandatory return-to-office policy, citing "collaboration" and "culture." Your best performer, a single mother who has demonstrated three years of exceptional remote productivity, tells you she will have to resign. The directive comes...
The calendar notification appears: "Annual Performance Review, 2:00 PM, Conference Room B." Your stomach tightens. Your mind begins rehearsing defenses for projects that went sideways. You find yourself drafting mental responses to criticisms not yet delivered. By the...