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Legalized Psychological Experts
“He who dares to not offend cannot be honest.” – Thomas Paine
April 15, 2025
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Reducing Implicit Bias
What is implicit bias? What does “reducing implicit bias” mean to the professions and professionals who are legally mandated to take their own bias into consideration when working with citizens in precarious life situations where even psychology cannot agree on what is actually happening or what to do about it?
April 1, 2025
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Betrayal Trauma: Illegal Psychology
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March 18, 2025
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Recovery Manifesto
We have been taught that freedom is the freedom to pursue our petty, trivial desires. Real freedom is freedom from our petty, trivial desires. – Russell Brand
February 21, 2025
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Recovery Reckoning
Introduction How many clinicians have seen their clients’ most private and intimate parts? How many clinicians regularly see their clients’ literal private parts (e.g., junk)? How many clinicians, probation officers, and staff are legally required to do this as a critical aspect of their jobs? Who legally requires this? And who has to ignore their
February 21, 2025
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Racial Addiction
“I don’t want my people to be tricked by mercenaries.” – Bob Marley’s song: Zimbabwe
February 21, 2025
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Pseudo-Seizures
“It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.” – Julius Caesar Introduction Generally, people know that Julius Caesar had seizures; so, they believe they know what seizures are. Similarly, doctors see medical diagnoses (HERE) and not psychological ones that do
February 19, 2025
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Recovery Sisters and Brothers
“One Love, One Heart, Let’s get together and feel alright.” – Bob Marley
February 16, 2025
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February 15, 2025
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Now or Never?
“Let’s get together to fight this holy Armageddon, for when the man comes, there will be no more dues.
Have pity on those, whose chances grow thinner, for there ain’t no hiding place from the Father of Creation.
Believe me. – Bob Marley’s “One Love”
February 14, 2025
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Environmental AI
Introduction One of the things that we struggle with professionally is that we have decided to not upload our work (O’Brien, 2023a) into AI. We have seen reports of the amount of power that Artificial Intelligence (AI) requires and seems to not be worth it. We care enough about the impact on the next generation’s
February 13, 2025
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Autoimmunity
Introduction Using emotional logic, every “bad” person was biologically born into a society with some form of mother and father. Just like the mighty oak tree, starts from a acorn seed. As psychological professionals, we have had long to deal with the fallout from political strife, international wars, immigration reform, poor legal precedent, and the
February 12, 2025
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Moral Money
“Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of a civilized nations.” Thomas Jefferson
February 11, 2025
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Pop Psychology
“In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.” – Andy Warhol
February 8, 2025
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January 21, 2025
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January 14, 2025
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Addressing Toxic Shame: The Shape and Color Set-up
When I first started to use EMDR with my clients, particularly with more complex cases, there seemed to be more that needed to get done before trauma processing. There needs to be more resourcing but also something that is able to touch a deeper trauma that is inside of our clients. Shame is usually the
January 11, 2025
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Cognitive Religions
“Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.” Jack Kerouac
January 8, 2025
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