Reclaiming the Soul of Psychology: Recentering the Study of Consciousness in Psychotherapy

Reclaiming the Soul of Psychology: Recentering the Study of Consciousness in Psychotherapy

Psychology, as a field, stands at a critical juncture. Over the past few decades, the focus has shifted away from the fundamental nature of human consciousness and towards a more mechanistic, symptom-focused approach to mental health. Manualized therapies, diagnostic...
Gnosticism as a Metaphor for Consciousness: Meaning, Evolution, and Healing

Gnosticism as a Metaphor for Consciousness: Meaning, Evolution, and Healing

Gnosticism as a Metaphor for Consciousness: Meaning, Evolution, and Healing Gnosticism is an ancient spiritual and philosophical worldview that offers a profound metaphor for the nature and dilemmas of human consciousness. While Gnosticism should not be taken as a...
Transforming Anxiety Through Embodied Mindfulness: A Guided Meditation

Transforming Anxiety Through Embodied Mindfulness: A Guided Meditation

If you struggle with anxiety, panic, or trauma, you know how easily the mind can get hijacked by worries about the future or regrets about the past. Mindfulness offers a powerful pathway back to the safety and stability of the present moment. This grounding meditation...
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...
Jürgen Habermas and the Transformation of Psychotherapy: Towards a Dialogical and Emancipatory Practice

Jürgen Habermas and the Transformation of Psychotherapy: Towards a Dialogical and Emancipatory Practice

Who is Jürgen Habermas? Jürgen Habermas (1929-) is one of the most influential philosophers and social theorists of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. As the leading figure of the “second generation” of the Frankfurt School, Habermas has made...