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 …
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 …
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.
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