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Glossary of Blog Articles

Glossary of Blog Articles

by | Jan 8, 2025 | , ,

Our blog is designed as a resource for those seeking to deepen their understanding of the human psyche and its expression through culture, therapy, and history. Below, you'll find an overview of the diverse topics we cover and an invitation to explore the categories that resonate most with your interests. Jungian Innovators Dive into the foundational ideas of depth psychology with articles that celebrate the works of Jungian visionaries such as Carl Jung, James Hillman, Marie-Louise von Franz, and more. These...

The Weird History of Psychotherapy Part 5: The Perennial Philosophy

The Weird History of Psychotherapy Part 5: The Perennial Philosophy

by | Jun 2, 2025 |

Socrates and the Daimon: The Ancient Shamanic Function Athens, 399 BCE. Socrates holds a cup of hemlock—poison that will kill him if he drinks it. His students beg him to flee; the guards would look the other way. He could escape to Thessaly and continue teaching. Instead, he drinks. Not because he's suicidal or defeated, but to prove something that can't be proven any other way: the daimon is real. The inner voice that had guided him all his life—the thing that tells him when he's about to make a mistake, the...

The Weird History of Psychotherapy Part 4: Empty, Hollow, Thud or CBT and The Satanic Panic

The Weird History of Psychotherapy Part 4: Empty, Hollow, Thud or CBT and The Satanic Panic

by | Jun 2, 2025 |

How CBT Killed the Soul of Psychotherapy: The Rosenhan Experiment: A Prophecy Fulfilled In 1973, a psychiatric hospital received an unusual visitor. A man walked up to admissions and said simply, "I hear voices." When the psychiatrist asked what they said, he replied: "Empty, hollow, thud." He was immediately admitted, diagnosed with schizophrenia, and kept for weeks. But here's the thing—he wasn't insane. He was a psychologist participating in David Rosenhan's groundbreaking experiment to prove that psychiatric...

The Weird History of Psychotherapy Part 3: Wilhelm Reich

The Weird History of Psychotherapy Part 3: Wilhelm Reich

by | Jun 2, 2025 |

From Reich's Orgone to CBT's Reductionism: How America Lost the Soul of Psychotherapy The Radical Pioneer Who Found Trauma in the Body In 1954, a wild-haired man stood in a field aiming a strange contraption of hollow metal tubes at the sky. This was Wilhelm Reich and his "cloudbuster"—an array of metal tubes he claimed could harness the power of cosmic orgone energy. To understand how we arrived at this bizarre scene, we must trace the extraordinary journey of one of psychology's most brilliant and troubled...

THe Weird History of Psychotherapy Part 2: Jung’s and the Bottom of Consciousness

THe Weird History of Psychotherapy Part 2: Jung’s and the Bottom of Consciousness

by | Jun 2, 2025 |

The Birth of Consciousness and the Human Dilemma: From 24,000 BCE to the Crisis of Modern Psychology   Around 24,000 BCE, a profound shift occurred in human evolution that would fundamentally alter the trajectory of our species. A piece of neural tissue called the precuneus began to develop, bridging objective perception and subjective experience for the first time in evolutionary history. This wasn't merely about intelligence—dolphins demonstrate remarkable problem-solving abilities, and octopi possess...

The Weird History of Psychotherapy Part 1: A Different Version of Your Dad

The Weird History of Psychotherapy Part 1: A Different Version of Your Dad

by | Jun 2, 2025 |

The Wounded Healer: How Freud's Trauma Shaped Modern Psychology Understanding the Origins of Psychoanalysis Through the Lens of Its Founder's Unresolved Wounds The story of Sigmund Freud is not merely the biography of psychology's most famous figure—it's a cautionary tale about how unhealed trauma can shape an entire field of study. When we examine Freud's life through a psychodynamic lens, we see how his personal wounds became the blueprint for psychoanalysis, ultimately creating a system that reflected his own...

Understanding Our Political Moment Through Eric Voegelin:

Understanding Our Political Moment Through Eric Voegelin:

by | Jun 2, 2025 |

 A Guide for Immanentizing the Eschaton in Therapy Why a Dead German Philosopher Matters for Your Therapy Practice Picture this: You're sitting with a client who can't stop talking about how "the system is rigged," or maybe they're convinced that if only we could implement the perfect political solution, all our problems would disappear. Sound familiar? Whether it's QAnon believers, market fundamentalists convinced that pure capitalism will save us all, or activists certain that their ideology holds the key to...

Teyber’s Interpersonal Process in Therapy:

Teyber’s Interpersonal Process in Therapy:

by | May 29, 2025 |

Buy the Book  How Edward Teyber's Revolutionary Approach Transformed My Journey from Anxious Student to Confident Therapist I still remember sitting in my social work school classroom, frantically taking notes on CBT protocols and DBT worksheets, feeling increasingly overwhelmed with each passing lecture. The more theoretical models and manualized treatments I learned, the more confused I became about how I would ever actually sit down with a real human being and do therapy. My notebooks were filled with...

The Psychology of Architecture:

The Psychology of Architecture:

by | May 29, 2025 |

Washington D.C.'s Sacred Geometry and the Revolutionary Transformation of Divine Authority  A Capital Born from Enlightenment When Pierre Charles L'Enfant stood upon Jenkins Hill in March 1791, surveying the wilderness that would become America's capital, he carried with him not just architectural plans but revolutionary ideas about power, authority, and the divine right to rule. The city he would design—though never fully realized according to his vision—would become a physical manifestation of humanity's most...

Temenos: How Sacred Geometry Can Transform Modern Urban Planning

by | May 29, 2025 |

A Deep Dive into Will Selman's Revolutionary Book Buy Will's Book Temenos Bridging Ancient Wisdom and Modern City Design In an era where cities face unprecedented challenges—from climate change to social disconnection—urban planner and author Will Selman presents a compelling vision in his groundbreaking book "Temenos." Drawing from Carl Jung's psychological theories, sacred geometry principles, and the forgotten wisdom behind Washington D.C.'s original design, Selman argues that our urban spaces can be...

John C. Lilly: When Dolphins, Drugs, and the Deep End of Consciousness Collided in the Psychedelic ’70s

John C. Lilly: When Dolphins, Drugs, and the Deep End of Consciousness Collided in the Psychedelic ’70s

by | May 29, 2025 | , ,

 The Mad Scientist Who Made Flipper Look Like a Documentary Picture this: It's 1965, and while most scientists are content with their lab coats and microscopes, one maverick researcher is floating in a pitch-black tank filled with body-temperature salt water, high on ketamine, trying to establish interspecies communication with dolphins. No, this isn't the plot of a B-movie (though it inspired several). This was Tuesday for Dr. John C. Lilly, the neuroscientist who took "thinking outside the box" to mean...