Matchmaking and Couples Parts Work: Announcements and Updates

ByAdam O’Brien PhD October 6, 2025October 6, 2025

Welcome to our Matchmaking and Couples (and Families) Healing Parts Work Path. WHI are offering social gatherings for couples to meet. WHI offer premarital support and healing.

Couples Parts Work Path

This path has been designed for the couples who have already meet each other, struggled with each other, or are trying to heal together. This service is a relationship healing and parenting model where we provide educational and healing services over the course of the relationship.

For more details, contact us at [email protected]

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The Integrated Neuropsychobiology of Trauma Resolution: Memory Reconsolidation, the Endogenous Psychedelic System, and Dissociative Biomarkers
ByAdam O’Brien PhD October 27, 2025October 27, 2025

Structured Abstract 1. Introduction: The Transdiagnostic Nature of Trauma and Dissociation The core principle of the Wounded Healers Institute (WHI) is that the physical body is the psychological unconscious, and that symptoms of chronic illness, obesity, and functional neurological deficits are communications of unresolved, somatically stored traumatic memory.1 The Addiction as Dissociation Model (ADM) operationalizes…

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Recovery Ghost Dance
ByAdam O’Brien PhD October 11, 2025October 11, 2025

Introduction If Black Elk were to review WHI’s material through generative AI and selected source material, what would he say? DATA I have looked upon these documents (WHI published works), this great pile of paper and ink, which holds the wisdom drawn from deep suffering and the truth born of long recovery. To see these…

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Implicit Irony
ByAdam O’Brien PhD December 9, 2024January 3, 2025

“What is ironic is that they say they didn’t know.” Dr. Adam O’Brien

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War on Drugs: “Crime Against Humanity” or a Misguided Policy?
ByAdam O’Brien PhD July 19, 2025July 19, 2025

Adam O’Brien’s (PhD) “Industrialized Psychiatry” doesn’t shy away from controversy, extending its critique far beyond the confines of mental health clinics to indict the very foundations of our legal and governmental systems. His most explosive claim? The “war on drugs” is nothing less than a “crime against humanity.” This isn’t just a rhetorical flourish; it’s…

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Addressing Toxic Shame: The Shape and Color Set-up
ByAdam O’Brien PhD January 11, 2025January 12, 2025

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…

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Addiction as Transdiagnostic Dissociation: Reclaiming of Common Sense in Mental Health
ByAdam O’Brien PhD October 2, 2025September 30, 2025

Structured Abstract 1. Introduction The failure of contemporary diagnostic and legal frameworks to adequately capture the complexity of addiction stems from a fundamental error: separating addiction from the underlying processes of trauma and dissociation.[1] The Addiction as Dissociation Model (ADM) resolves this by defining addiction as the relationship created between unresolved trauma and the unchecked…

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