Category: The Meaty Part
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the problem with psychedelic psychotherapy, part i
so I went to a conference, in the mountains, with an amazingly diverse group of people. the point of attending this conference was, I’m sure, as diverse and varied as the attendees, but for me it was essentially two-fold, maybe three-fold. first of all, I have heard a lot over the past few years that…
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Psychedelic update
Well I made it back from the psychedelic conference in one piece and what an event it was! I know I promised a synopsis, and I fully intend on making good in that promise but to be honest I have spent the week since I returned trying to not only to synthesize the information I…
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Adventure time
I sat down with iPad in hand to write a haiku for the day but quickly discovered I had more I wanted to write about than an iPad could comfortably allow. I don’t know about you guys but sometimes I need an actual keyboard to type on and I have already collected so many gadgets…
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Suffering
Today I awoke to a new, or perhaps renewed, awareness to my suffering. Like everybody I have things and issues in my life which are not going the way I would like or expected them to go. These are sources of suffering. There are many other sources of suffering as well but in the end…
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the problem with AI and Consciousness
I’ve been listening to an audiobook about the philosophy of mind, which among other things, concerns itself with consciousness. To be a bit more specific, in the area of consciousness what the philosophy of mind is concerned with is; what is it and how does it come to be? The book if you are interested…
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the problem with grief III
In this part I will be addressing some of the myths I have encountered surrounding the actual stages of the grief cycle. As before I will not be discussing all of the myths or all the possible myths, but will be addressing the more common ones I have seen in my work as a psychologist.…
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the problem with grief II
bonus to breaking my essay up into parts, I get to take a break and eat a late dinner with Mrs. SoulDoc. Now where was I?…… The next myth about the grief cycle is that it is in fact a linear set of stages. Much like climbing a ladder or a set of stairs one…
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the problem with grief I
I have often noticed, and I think I have written about it here previously, in my practice there will be a pattern, or what I refer to as a theme, which appears to be guiding my work over a period of time. Sometimes that period is a day, sometimes longer, but it is so prominent…
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The problem with subjectivity
I came into my office today to discover my clock wasn’t working. It was broken, likely dropped or knocked off my desk. I immediately blamed the janitor service my hospital uses mainly because they tend to move things around a lot when they clean (and by things I mean everything) and they don’t appear to…
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The problem with social interactions: Projection
When I was a child every once in a while my family would go to the movie theater. It was a magical place full of giant images and even gianter popcorn buckets. My family would sit in a row, careful to separate myself and my younger brother, and I would bear witness to magic. I…