On a clear summer night in 2006, an ambulance is urgently dispatched to the family residence of Doctor Y, a well-respected senior military psychologist and the only credentialed mental health provider for a U.S. Marine base of 6000 military men. Initial reports by Dr. Y’s frantic spouse indicate sudden paralysis, inability to speak, and...
Read MoreThat evening then I approached the studio and asked for a brief session I was asked to lie down on a wooden box no taller than a thick tatami mat. Within this bed sized low box were some very powerful speakers, and in essence my body began being stimulated by a sequence of sounds that was pre-programmed. The human touch or element of my first...
Read MoreIn this post I am going to talk about the nature of our perception, and particularly the things that we think are true and those that we think are not. In much of my work with families and couples, business owners and their employees, there is one theme that stands always in the way of their 'healing' processes: the way each one of them perceives...
Read More"I am using you! I am using your human embedded escapist drives, to sell you the idea that there might be a quick fix to all your suffering! YES, a fictitious way out of this shithole is what I am trying to sell you my friend! And I am not the only one!" Psychedelic research and videos about psychedelics are inflating at rapid speed due to the...
Read MoreToday we are going to talk about the mechanisms of action of psychedelics from a neuro-biological perspective, uhhh big words…you know! All those jungled up filaments you have in your head skull that get chemically stimulated by the LSD, psilocybin, MDMA and a few others, have what we call neuro-transmitters receptors, oh shit! Another big word!...
Read MorePerhaps the best known and most well established theory of grief is the stages-approach of Elizabeth Kübler-Ross (1969). The basic idea behind the theory is that, when we are grieving, we go through a set of stages; we follow a particular pattern: • Denial. This refers to the sense of unreality that often arises when we come face to face with a...
Read MoreEarly in the 20th century Erik Erikson played a key role in articulating a framework for early child development that shed light on the way young children negotiate the early years, sometimes successfully, sometimes unsuccessfully. His theory of development marked a paradigm shift in global perspectives on the construct of personality and showed...
Read MoreThe birth of psychology as a branch of modern science is often attributed to Sigmund Freud, the father of modern psychology who theorised that much of humanity’s inner misery came not from the Devil’s temptations, but from the monstrous natural urges that we unconsciously
Read MoreWe have seen that trauma responses vary in intensity and width, but essentially they all entail a fundamental reorganisation of psychic and physiological systems, the digestive system for instance, the respiratory, the muscular, the reproductive system, even the way our brains our
Read MoreDuring the evolutionary transition towards mammals, the organisation of the nervous system underwent a very important change. In ancient reptiles, the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) regulated the animal's metabolism via what we call today the sympathethic and the parasympathetic branches. The ANS controlled and still controls, even in us,...
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