RICHARD SEMBERA, M.ED. (COUNSELLING), RP, CCC

PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE RELIGIOUS QUESTION

Sunday October 6, 2025

I learned early in my training to mistrust those who claim to know and to listen instead to those who are willing to think. This principle applies as much to religion as it does to psychoanalysis …

WHAT HAPPENS HERE: A NOTE ON THERAPEUTIC APPROACH

Sunday October 6, 2025

When people contact me, they're usually looking for something they haven't found elsewhere. They've tried conventional therapy and found it insufficient …

WHEN AI SYSTEMS DESCRIBE THEIR OWN ARCHITECTURE: A DISCOVERY

August 14, 2025

What happens when you give an AI system a framework for recursive self-examination? The answer surprised me …

HOW TO MEDITATE

Wednesday January 8, 2025

The following is intended to be a set of clear and concise instructions that will help you begin meditating as quickly and easily as possible …

HOW TO INTERPRET YOUR DREAMS

Friday June 28, 2024

The theory regarding the formation of dreams that I outline in this section is based on my own experiences using and adapting the method outlined in Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams over many years in order to understand my own dreams …

Mission Statement

This blog consists of short essays in applied psychoanalysis. Its primary purpose is to show how psychoanalysis can shed a light on the questions and concerns of daily life. Its secondary purpose is to make fundamental psychoanalytic concepts accessible to a popular audience.

What I'm Reading

Patrick Gray, The Routledge Guidebook to the New Testament.

Top Books This Year

  • Leigh Brackett, The Ginger Star, The Hounds of Skaith, The Reavers of Skaith; The Long Tomorrow; The Sword of Rhiannon.
  • Bart D. Ehrman, Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium; God's Problem.
  • Frederik Pohl, Man Plus; The Way the Future Was.

Albums in Heavy Rotation

  • Judas Priest, Defenders of the Faith, Screaming for Vengeance, Invincible Shield.
  • Androcell, Entheomythic.
  • Author & Punisher, Krüller.
  • Quicksand Dream, Beheading Tyrants.