Wounded Healer | Addiction as Dissociation Model | Applied Recovery | Care | Industrialized Psychiatry | Legalized Psychological Experts | Moral-Ethics | Path of the Wounded Healer (PWH) | Psychedelics | Recovering Recovery
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A Path for Systemic Recovery
The Wounded Healer Paradigm and the Future of Psychological, Legal, and Social Well-being Executive Summary This document presents a new paradigm for understanding human suffering and a strategic plan for systemic reform. The current psychological, medical, and legal systems are fundamentally flawed, operating from a state of “addictive and dissociative pathology.” These institutions perpetuate harm…
- Wounded Healer | Addiction as Dissociation Model | Applied Recovery | Industrialized Psychiatry | Legalized Psychological Experts | Moral-Ethics | Path of the Wounded Healer (PWH) | Recovering Recovery
Brainspotting is not a “Pseudoscience” and the Emergence of a New Healing Paradigm
Executive Summary: A Declaration of a New Paradigm This new meta-critical analysis of “The “Science” of “Pseudoscience”” by Dr. Adam O’Brien (PhD) serves as a comprehensive philosophical and clinical response to the article by McKay and Coreil (2024) published in Medical Hypotheses, which suggested that Brainspotting (BSP), a somatic approach to psychological healing, could be…
When Addiction becomes Living Dissociated: Addiction as Dissociation Model
The central problem addressed by O’Brien (2023a) is the incomplete nature of current clinical definitions of addiction. These definitions, including those found in the Diagnostic Statistical Manual for Mental Health Disorders (DSM-5), lack crucial components related to trauma and dissociation, which significantly impedes the development and implementation of effective treatment strategies. Predicated on the unresolved…
- Wounded Healer | Addiction as Dissociation Model | Applied Recovery | Care | Industrialized Psychiatry | Legalized Psychological Experts | Path of the Wounded Healer (PWH) | Psychedelics | Recovering Recovery
Comparative Analysis: Therapist vs. Healer
Introduction: The Emerging Paradigm of the Healer We are in the midst of a recovery reckoning, a spiritual revolution that calls into question the very foundations of institutionalized mental healthcare. This analysis draws a sharp line between two fundamentally opposed archetypes: the licensed psychological therapist, an agent of the established medical-industrial complex, and the Healer….
Addiction as Dissociation Model Dissertation (AI Analysis)
Detailed Summary of our Dissertation This dissertation, “ADDICTION AS TRAUMA-RELATED DISSOCIATION: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE ADDICTIVE STATE” by Adam O’Brien, PhD, LMHC, CASAC presents a groundbreaking argument for redefining addiction as a manifestation of trauma-related dissociation. The author contends that current clinical definitions and models of addiction are incomplete, failing to adequately account for…
