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The Taproot Therapy Collective Podcast
Moving beyond surface-level mental wellness, we dive into the honest, irreverent, and profound forces that affect the human psyche, exploring advanced trauma neurobiology, depth psychology, and cultural anthropology.
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The Weird History of Psychotherapy (Series)
A five-part clinical and biographical critique examining the historical figures who engineered modern therapeutic modalities, and how their personal unexamined biases shaped the therapies we use today.
Part 1: Freud - A Different Version of Your Dad
An exploration of Freud's 1866 incident, his cocaine usage, his toxic relationship with Wilhelm Fliess, and how his personal victimhood established a legacy of victim-blaming embedded within early psychology.
Listen to Part 1Part 2: Carl Jung - The Bottom of Consciousness
Examining Jung's conceptualization of the Shadow, his covert activities with the OSS/CIA, and how his theories on mysticism and archetypes are vital for understanding the subcortical nature of emotion and schizophrenia.
Listen to Part 2Part 3: No Body, No Soul, No Discharge in the War
The suppressed history of Wilhelm Reich, the man who discovered trauma in the physical body, mapping out muscular armor and somatic memory before his tragic devolution into claims of UFO battles.
Listen to Part 3Part 4: Empty, Dull, Thud, The Satanic Panic & The Scientific Method
A systemic critique of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). Tracing the 1973 Rosenhan experiment to Aaron Beck's computer metaphor, the replication crisis, and the disastrous mass hysteria of the Satanic Panic.
Listen to Part 4Part 5: Casting New Gods from Forgotten Bars of Gold
Returning to Athens in 399 BCE to examine the death of Socrates and his allegiance to his 'daimonion'—the inner shamanic voice that modern mechanized therapy actively seeks to suppress.
Listen to Part 5A Psychohistory of American Psychology (Series)
An eight-part sociological examination tracing how macro-cultural forces—industrialization, the Cold War, and algorithmic technology—systematically rewired the American nervous system.
Part 1: The Sun and the Clock
How the invention of standardized 'machine time' during the Industrial Revolution forcefully rewired human neurobiology, and how John B. Watson’s Behaviorism optimized humans for the factory floor.
Listen to Part 1Part 2: The Myth of Normal and the American Plague
Analyzing the psychological void left by the Great Depression's destruction of the "self-made hero," and how European refugees brought Freudian psychoanalysis to fill the emptiness.
Listen to Part 2Part 3: The Void and the Cure
Examining post-WWII suburbia, social atomization, and Cold War nuclear terror. How the medical establishment pushed Miltown and Valium instead of structural fixes to society.
Listen to Part 3Part 4: Too Fuzzy, Too Soft, Too Big
The 1960s counterculture, Harvard psilocybin experiments with Timothy Leary, the CIA's MKULTRA project, and how the subsequent backlash engineered spirituality out of the therapeutic system.
Listen to Part 4Part 5: The Wound That Speaks
Utilizing Paul MacLean's Triune Brain model to reconceptualize psychotic delusions as mirrors of cultural trauma—from 1910s animistic voices to 2020s algorithmic paranoia.
Listen to Part 5Part 6: Please DO NOT Mangle, Spindle or Mutilate Me
Set against President Jimmy Carter's 1979 "Crisis of Confidence," exploring the profound crisis of identity that arose as individuals were treated like punch cards in massive bureaucracies.
Listen to Part 6Part 7: The Mirror World: Ghosts and Simulacra
Applying Jean Baudrillard’s theory of simulacra to examine the psychological toll of a world governed by metrics. Analyzing AI Large Language Models as "ghosts" performing the gesture of understanding.
Listen to Part 7Part 8: The AI Therapist & The Real Medicine
Warning of AI automating the mental health workforce, while highlighting the convergent rediscovery of depth psychology (Polyvagal Theory, Somatic Experiencing) and the necessity of human nervous system regulation.
Listen to Part 8Featured Guests & Clinical Roundtables
Adam O'Brien: The Body Holds The Trauma
The founder of the Wounded Healer Institute discusses the link between dissociation and endogenous opioids, the backwards logic of ketamine treatments, and how Brainspotting accesses preverbal trauma.
Listen to EpisodeExploring the Dreamworld with 'This Jungian Life'
Deborah Stewart, Lisa Marchiano, and Joseph Lee discuss their book "Dreamwise," unpacking the concept of the "dream maker," the 69 keys to interpretation, and connecting with the subcortical brain.
Listen to EpisodePynk Beard (Sebastian Kole) on Southern Identity & Healing
Grammy-winning songwriter Sebastian Kole discusses the cultural cross-pollination of country and hip-hop in his album Sugar and Salt, anger management therapy, and creative rebellion.
Listen to EpisodeTimothy Faust: The Economics of Healthcare Policy
Demystifying the complex economics of the American healthcare system, the business case for Medicaid expansion, and how preventive care saves states millions in emergency costs.
Listen to EpisodeTherapy Roundtable: Psychology of Dragons
Merging evolutionary biology with comparative mythology to explore how collective fears of ancient predators amalgamated into the Jungian Shadow archetype of the dragon within the hero's journey.
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