Selected Essays & Articles
Essays written between the clinical pages and the books: long enough to argue a position, short enough to be about one thing.
The numbered series is collected separately in Psycholytic Perspectives.
A Nation Medicating Its Depression: Antidepressants, Placebo, and What We May Be Missing About Human Distress
Antidepressant use has more than doubled across developed nations. What the placebo research, the serotonin story and the variation in who responds may be telling us.
A Nation Afraid to Feel: Anxiety and the Illusion of Safety
Everyone else seems fine. On anxiety beyond diagnosis, the illusion of safety, and what our distress reveals about the lives we have built.
A Nation Regulating Its Pain: Opioids and the American Delusion of Comfort
Less than 5% of the world's population, and a disproportionate share of its prescription opioids. What that discrepancy reveals about how a country carries pain.
Psycholytic and Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy: A Continuum of Experience
Not two treatments but one continuous range, varying in intensity, in how much conversation remains available, and in how far attention turns inward.
When Anxiety Is the Nervous System Trying to Protect You
Why anxiety can continue when you know you are safe, and what changes when it is read as an organized protective response.
Beyond the Label: Kratom, Herbal Supplements and Dependence
What the word herbal conceals, and why dependence is better read as a system finding its footing than as a moral failure.
Homeostatic Patterning: Trauma Therapy in Vero Beach, Florida
Why a pattern that no longer helps is still defended, and what changes in treatment when stability is read as the finding.
7-OH Kratom Extracts and the Cost of Fear-Based Drug Narratives
Concentrated extracts are a real pharmacological change. Panic is still the wrong instrument for describing them.
PTSD Treatment in Vero Beach, Florida: Why Traditional Therapy Isn't Always Enough
Insight arrives, the body does not follow. A systems account of why understanding a history is not the same as leaving it.
Ibogaine and Opioid Use Disorder Treatment: A Systems-Based Perspective in Florida
A Schedule I substance, a desperate treatment gap, and the question the interest in it is actually asking.
Trauma Therapy in Vero Beach, FL: A Systems-Based Approach to PTSD, Anxiety and Depression
Three diagnoses, one arrangement. What it means to treat the conditions a symptom is answering rather than the symptom.
The essays here are commentary, not treatment. Several of them argue about substances, kratom, concentrated 7-OH extracts, ibogaine, because those arguments arrive in the consulting room whether or not a clinician has a position on them. None of that material is an offer: this practice does not provide, prescribe, administer, sell, refer for, or facilitate access to any substance discussed.
The longer, more formal material lives elsewhere. The framework pages set out the concepts these pieces lean on, and the writing pages describe the two books.