Eternity: By Our Own Free Will
(A Dissociation-Informed and Recovery-Focused Poem) I once had a beatific vision that one day we would write a poem that
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When re-establishing a profession and professional service in response to the shortcoming of another or filling in a societal truth that has failed to be recognized, the new profession, philosophy, and their practice must justify its existence to the other existing professions. In doing so, we define ourselves as different or other, which leads to different societal issues, interpretations, professional conflicts, and tests our philosophical understanding of what is true and what is false. This is particularly true for mental health, which is why we broke it down emphatically (O’Brien, 2024a; O’Brien, 2024b; O’Brien, 2024c).
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Recovering Therapist
What is a recovering therapist? A few years back we (this author) socially met a lawyer who first introduced himself as a “recovering lawyer”. To us, by identifying the qualifier of “recovery” from his profession, he was acknowledging that he learned something from his lived experience and was deciding to practice his profession differently. As a professional in the field, his lived experience had made him morally continue to be what he was trained to be, but educated enough by his lived experience to behave differently in his profession (See O’Brien, 2024c for the difference between trained and educated).
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Medical Necessity
“Necessity is the mother of invention, but necessity is in the eye of the beholder.” Adam O’Brien Introduction Medical
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What Would You Do?
What would you do if your state licensing board required you to learn something that you were already educated to do (e.g., your masters’ degree program teaches you to diagnose)? We wrote a paper on it (O’Brien, 2024b).
What would you do if other professionals called a primary healing approach a “pseudoscience”, based on the APA’s “research” on the standardization and industrialization of modern psychology to a more rational and cognitive foundation? We wrote a paper on it (O’Brien, 2024c).
Oppositional Personality Disorder
Wounded Healers Institute is proposing Oppositional Personality Disorder (OPD) for those who may have what we have identified in our
“Imaginary” Friends
When we are called imaginary, we disappear. When we are called real, we reappear. When no one arrives, we appear.
RESPONSE: FDA and MDMA REJECTION
Dr. Adam explores the FDA’s rejection of MDMA as a part of talk-therapy… as if talk-therapy was going well… Check
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Pseudoscience
“Oh, What a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.” Sir Walter Scott As our mother always
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Diagnostic Privilege
“He who is not angry when there is just cause for anger is immoral. Why? Because anger looks to the