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Beyond Fight or Flight: Understanding “Functional Freeze” and Why You Feel Stuck

Beyond Fight or Flight: Understanding “Functional Freeze” and Why You Feel Stuck

by | Dec 26, 2025 | Micro-nutrition and Vitamins for Mental Health, Neuroscience and the Brain for Therapists, Self Help and Personal Development

For decades, popular psychology has focused almost exclusively on the “Fight or Flight” response. We are taught that when we encounter stress—whether it’s a tiger in the wild or a deadline at work—our bodies flood with adrenaline, our hearts race, and we...
Beyond Sex: Why Freud Was Wrong About Libido (And Where the Energy Actually Went)

Beyond Sex: Why Freud Was Wrong About Libido (And Where the Energy Actually Went)

by | Dec 25, 2025 | History of Psychotherapy, Parts Based Therapy, Psychology Book Reviews and Non Fiction

The Architecture of Desire: Rethinking Libido from Freud to Friston The history of depth psychology is, at its core, a history of a single argument: What fuels the human machine? For Sigmund Freud, the answer was singular, biological, and relentless. He believed the...
The Golden Bough and the Voices of the Gods: A Critical Re-evaluation of James George Frazer and Julian Jaynes in the Light of Modern Cognitive Science

The Golden Bough and the Voices of the Gods: A Critical Re-evaluation of James George Frazer and Julian Jaynes in the Light of Modern Cognitive Science

by | Dec 20, 2025 | Comparative Religion for Therapy, Jungian Therapy and Depth Psychology

I. The Architecture of Magnificent Error In the intellectual history of the human sciences, there exists a rare and distinctive category of scholarship which might be termed the “magnificent failure.” These are works of sweeping ambition, immense...
The Architecture of the Self and the Anatomy of Trauma: A Consilient Analysis of Depth Psychology, Somatic Interventions, and Computational Neuroscience

The Architecture of the Self and the Anatomy of Trauma: A Consilient Analysis of Depth Psychology, Somatic Interventions, and Computational Neuroscience

by | Dec 20, 2025 | Neuroscience and the Brain for Therapists

The Convergence of Metaphor and Mechanism The history of psychotherapy is often narrated as a fractured lineage, a series of schisms where the “scientific” present supposedly corrects the “mystical” errors of the past. For nearly a century, the...
Manly P. Hall and the Psychological Resurrection of Ancient Wisdom

Manly P. Hall and the Psychological Resurrection of Ancient Wisdom

by | Dec 20, 2025 | Christian Mysticism in Therapy, Comparative Religion for Therapy, Jungian Therapy and Depth Psychology, Psychology of Mystics, Gurus, and Spiritual Philosophers

There is a particular kind of book that seems to find you rather than the other way around. For many who have wandered into the territory where psychology meets spirituality, that book is often The Secret Teachings of All Ages by Manly Palmer Hall. Published in 1928...
The Psychology of War: Who Therapists Conceptualized War Through the Ages

The Psychology of War: Who Therapists Conceptualized War Through the Ages

by | Dec 17, 2025 | Alabama Local History, Birmingham, Psychology Book Reviews and Non Fiction, Psychology of History, Psychology of Politics

The Psychohistory of American Warfare From Sensibility to Dissociation The history of the United States is frequently told through the lens of political maneuvering and economic expansion but there exists a shadow history that runs beneath the dates and treaties. This...