Why Can’t LMSW’s Work as 1099 contractors in Alabama?
The Rule Nobody Went Back to Read: Why Alabama Keeps Its Social Workers Out of Business If you ask a Licensed Master Social Worker in Alabama why they can’t take a contract with a telehealth platform, rent a room in a group practice, or form an LLC, you’ll...
qEEG and Neuromodulation for PANDAS and PANS: What the Research Actually Says
The child who changed overnight Most childhood anxiety and OCD builds slowly. PANDAS and PANS look different. A parent describes a seven-year-old who went to bed fine and woke up terrified of contamination, refusing food, wetting the bed again, raging, unable to write...
What are the most common images in dreams?
Dreams keep their place in therapy because they are the purest projective material available. Nobody wrote them, nobody edited them, and the person who produced them was not trying to make an impression. In a way, dreams are our own personal mythology. Patients bring...
Therapy, Spirituality, Mysticism: Does the Religious overlap with the Scientific in Psychotherapy?
A woman sits in my office and describes a period of total desolation. Prayer has gone dead. The practices that once sustained her produce nothing. She feels abandoned by something she isn’t sure she believes in, and she cannot tell whether she is depressed or...
Hierarchies in Psychology: Maslow, Erikson, Kohlberg, Kegan, Jung and What Survives the Evidence
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...The Intellectual Foundations of Ken Wilber’s Integral Theory: A Deep Dive into His Sources
Ken Wilber’s Integral Theory represents an extraordinary synthesis of diverse intellectual traditions, drawing from hundreds of thinkers across psychology, philosophy, spirituality, and science. Understanding the specific contributions of these sources reveals...
The Anatomy of Schism: A Comprehensive Historical Analysis of the Fifteen Greatest Feuds in Psychotherapy
The discipline advanced not through consensus, but through violent collisions of opposing worldviews—tectonic shifts where the very definitions of “mind,” “cure,” and “human nature” were contested with ideological fervor and...
The Psychoanalytic Theories of Melanie Klein
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...