Learning inaction in psychotherapy
One of the natural responses of the human organism when facing an unknown situation is to accelerate internal processes. When one is lost in an...
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Forfeiting the paradigm of victimhood
A paper discussing the use of a culture of victimhood and traumatization as a universal alibi for social dysfunctionality. So-authored with Dr Behzad Hadzic. Full...
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The era of philosophical psychology
What is philosophical psychology and how psychology is returning to its foundations as an applied philosophy. https://youtu.be/6ghfHMSNP4s
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Logic in psychotherapy and education
Human beings are deeply logical. This is a contrary statement to many current pronouncements that appeal to the 'animal' or 'irrational' nature of human psychodynamics,...
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An overview of a narcissistic pathology
Narcissism is a particular type of personality organization that is structurally toxic. It is not a mental illness in the sense that it clouds the...
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Balancing the energy in emotional relationships
When emotionally highly charged emotional relationships are considered from an energy point of view, it becomes apparent that many people operate in a way which...
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How inhibitions work
S is a person I know. A man in his 50s, S is a city dweller with a love of the countryside and a weekend...
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Why the aim of therapy is not to ‘feel good’
Perhaps the most important principle that is consistently misinterpreted in all kinds of psychotherapy, but also in thinking about our own self-improvement and change, is...
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The substantive benefits of deep philotherapy
Perhaps the key benefit of deep philotherapy is in the shift of identity which occurs in the individual, where a part of the identity, habits...
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Modal logic in interpersonal relationships
Modal logic is based on the assumption that various possible states of affairs coexist at the same time, and that as little as a change...