Please note
This page is written for clinicians and readers of the work. Reading it, or contacting me about it, does not create a therapist and client relationship, and nothing here is clinical advice for your situation or for anyone in your care.
An ongoing series examining mental health, medicine, culture, psychedelics, psychotherapy and human suffering through a systems-oriented lens. The series challenges some conventional assumptions about pathology and treatment while exploring what symptoms and distress may be communicating about the larger systems people live in.
Psycholytic Perspectives 01
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 Perspectives 02
Everyone else seems fine. On anxiety beyond diagnosis, the illusion of safety, and what our distress reveals about the lives we have built.
Psycholytic Perspectives 03
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 new essay roughly every Monday. The PDF lands in your inbox the morning it goes up.
