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Every generation of psychologists seems to arrive at the same instinct: that the mind develops in stages, that those stages stack, and that the stack means something. Maslow drew needs. Erikson drew crises. Kohlberg drew moral reasoning. Loevinger drew the ego. Wilber...
Exploring the Earliest Stages of Psychic Life "The early ego lacks cohesion, and a tendency towards integration alternates with a tendency towards disintegration, a falling into bits... The result is an acute feeling of insecurity." 1. Who Was Melanie Klein Melanie...
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.
Who was Hermes Trismegistus Hermes Trismegistus, a legendary figure in the Hermetic tradition, is credited with authoring a body of texts known as the Hermetica, which had a profound influence on Western esotericism, alchemy, and mystical thought. The Hermetic...
Mircea Eliade's Insights into the Sacred “A religious symbol conveys its message even if it is no longer consciously understood in every part. For a symbol speaks to the whole human being and not only to the intelligence.” ― Mircea Eliade, The Sacred and the Profane:...
The Historian of the Western Soul In 1991, Richard Tarnas published a book that became standard reading in universities worldwide: The Passion of the Western Mind. It was a brilliant, sweeping history of Western thought from Plato to Hegel to Jung. But in 2006, he...
The Ghost in the Machine Found For over a century, the sciences of the mind have been divided by a seemingly unbridgeable chasm. On one side stood psychoanalysis, the domain of subjective depth, unconscious drives, and the messy, symbolic language of the soul. On the...
Why Understanding the Architecture of Mind Matters for Therapy Before we explore the life and revolutionary work of Bernard Baars, we need to understand why his ideas matter so profoundly for anyone working in the healing professions. Baars did not merely propose a...
Bill O’Hanlon, MS, LMFT, studied with Milton Erickson as his only work/study student (serving as Erickson’s gardener) before co-founding Solution-Oriented/Possibility Therapy in the 1980s. Author of nearly 40 books including the Oprah-featured “Do One Thing Different” and foundational “In Search of Solutions” with Michele Weiner-Davis, O’Hanlon delivered over 3,700 presentations worldwide teaching his collaborative, non-pathologizing approach asking “How do people get happy?” rather than “What’s wrong?” He retired from clinical practice in 2020 to pursue professional songwriting from Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Diane Poole Heller, PhD, transformed her own 1988 traumatic car accident into a pioneering career developing DARe (Dynamic Attachment Re-patterning experience), a somatic approach integrating attachment theory and trauma resolution now taught worldwide. After 25 years as Senior Faculty for Peter Levine’s Somatic Experiencing Institute, she created Trauma Solutions and authored The Power of Attachment, teaching that regardless of childhood history, people can develop Secure Attachment Skills through attuned relationships, body-based interventions, and recognizing we’re all biologically hardwired for connection and healing.