General Writings on Brain, Mind and Language
A comprehensive archive on neurology, trauma, behaviour, and the human experience.
Trauma & Interpersonal Harm
Essays that look closely at the dynamics of harm and how recovery is often misunderstood.
- Victims of Street CrimeReflections on what happens to people after street crime.
- Adult Sexual Trauma and RapePsychological and relational consequences.
- On Stalking and Being StalkedExamination of obsession and the lived experience.
- Covert Emotional Enmeshment and Parentification Exploring hidden relational roles where emotional needs overshadow individuality.
- The Effort to Drive the Other Person CrazyOn gaslighting and coercion.
- The Weaponization of Veracity How truth, credibility, and plausibility are manipulated as tools of interpersonal control.
- The Enforced Narrative How dominant stories constrain discourse and marginalise alternative perspectives of selfhood.
- Tone Policing How dismissive evaluative judgments shut down genuine communication.
- Weaponised Forgiveness How the rhetoric of forgiveness is used to avoid accountability and perpetuate harm.
- The Extinction Burst Understanding the behavioural spike that precedes change and its implications.
- Flippant Reframing How a real problem is trivialised, redirected, and reframed through dismissive presupposition.
- Sibling Triangulation How family dynamics recruit siblings into alliances, conflict, and psychological positioning.
- Somatic Dysregulation When the body’s regulatory systems become chronically unsettled, shaping emotion, perception, and behaviour.
- It Is Not My Fault: The Blame ListA look at externalizing responsibility.
Sexual Health, Body & Identity
Articles on how our bodies and identities become medicalised or moralised.
- On Being FatExploration of weight, shame, and identity.
- Premature EjaculationPsychological meanings of the experience.
- Definitions and Treatment StrategiesUnpacking definitions and reviews.
- A Clinical Note on Penile FracturesRarely-discussed injury implications.
- Impotence and Its Psychological ImplicationsIdentity, shame, and stories.
Alcohol, Addiction & Behaviour
Examining alcohol use and how labels shape identity and social attitudes.
- Alcohol DependencyThe cost of mislabelling and identity.
- Alcohol, Alcoholism and Alcohol DependencyTeasing apart different concepts.
- Alcohol: The Blameless DrugCultural normalization and blame.
- Alcohol, Cultural Permission, and the Myth of the Blameless Drug An examination of alcohol as a socially protected intoxicant, its cultural narratives, and its role in dependency.
Mood, Depression & Communication
How interaction and inner imagery can relieve or worsen distress.
- Anger: Prevention and ManagementAnger as a signal and habit.
- Tangential ResponsesConversation patterns and depression.
- Visual Imagery and DepressionThe role of inner mental imagery.
- It’s Good to TalkWhat talking actually does in therapy.
- Continuity, Discontinuity, and the Clinical Structure of Attachment Loss Understanding the profound psychological impact of losing foundational attachments.
- Loss, Attachment Substitution, and the Ritual Management of Absence Exploring how the human mind manages grief and absence through psychological substitution and ritual.
Complex Presentations & Controversial Diagnoses
Where psychiatry, belief, and suggestion collide.
- Munchausen’s SyndromeChallenges of diagnosing factitious disorder.
- False Memory SyndromeMoral panics and suggestibility.
Body, Brain & Unusual Treatments
From seizures to microbiota, exploring the stranger corners of medicine.
- Fecal Microbiota TransplantA first-hand account of FMT treatment.
- Epilepsy, Light and Sound MachinesSeizure risks and relaxation devices.
- Panchagavya & AyurvedaTraditional remedies through a modern lens.
Consciousness & Radical Ideas
Essays challenging conventional views of mind and experience.
- Near-Death Experience (NDE)What they tell us about mind and belief.
- Past Life RegressionA critical exploration of regression, memory, belief, and therapeutic meaning.
- Photographic MemoryA critical look at the research.
- Wilhelm ReichLife and work of the controversial figure.
- The Politics of ExperienceHow culture shapes "normal" experience.
- Agents of the New CountercultureEmerging movements.
- Life at All CostsOn the ethics and psychology of preserving life, intervention, death, and medical authority.
