50 Sociology and Anthropology Theories Every Therapist Should Know a Study Guide

50 Sociology and Anthropology Theories Every Therapist Should Know a Study Guide

The intersection of sociology, anthropology, and psychotherapy offers profound insights into human behavior, mental health, and healing. While therapists often focus on individual psychology, understanding the broader social and cultural contexts that shape our...
The Birth of Consciousness: Jungian Archetypes, Neuroscience, and Anthropology in Neil Gaiman’s Sandman

The Birth of Consciousness: Jungian Archetypes, Neuroscience, and Anthropology in Neil Gaiman’s Sandman

Disclaimer: Neil Gaiman, the author of The Sandman, has been accused of serious misconduct. While we do not condone his alleged actions or endorse financially supporting him, his influential work has been significant in the fields of psychology, myth studies, and...
Illuminating the Mind: Lessons Psychology Can Learn from Anthropology and Philosophy

Illuminating the Mind: Lessons Psychology Can Learn from Anthropology and Philosophy

Why Does Psychology Ignore Philosophy and Anthropology? Time moves in one direction, memory in another.<br> We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting. – William Gibson, “Dead Man...
Biosemiotics: Bridging Biology, Consciousness, and the Anthropology of Self

Biosemiotics: Bridging Biology, Consciousness, and the Anthropology of Self

What is Biosemiotics? Biosemiotics is an emerging interdisciplinary field that explores how living systems create, interpret, and communicate meaning. It offers a unique lens through which to understand the intricate relationships between biology, consciousness, and...
The Rituals of Healing:

The Rituals of Healing:

Anthropological Insights into Modern Psychotherapy Throughout human history and across cultures, rituals and storytelling have played a central role in addressing psychological ailments and facilitating healing. While modern psychotherapy can seem like a far cry from...
Can Psychotherapy Survive Staying Seperated from Anthropology and Philosophy?

Can Psychotherapy Survive Staying Seperated from Anthropology and Philosophy?

Should Psychotherapy Ponder the Mysteries of Philosophy and Anthropology? The specialized and fragmented nature of modern psychology has led to an abstracted and decontextualized view of the self, one that is disconnected from the embodied, embedded, and enactive...
The Universe 25 Experiment and the Psychological Stress of Modern Civilization

The Universe 25 Experiment and the Psychological Stress of Modern Civilization

What Was The Universe 25 Experiment? In the 1970s, ethologist John B. Calhoun conducted a famous experiment called Universe 25. In the study, a colony of mice was placed in a utopian enclosure called a “mouse paradise” with unlimited access to food, water,...