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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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Moral Money
“Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of a civilized nations.” Thomas Jefferson
February 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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December 9, 2024
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December 9, 2024
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A Nation of Professional Finks: “America” Case Study
“Thanks for the war against drugs.” William S. Burroughs
November 25, 2024
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October 28, 2024
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Bureaucratic Rhetoric
The world is his, who can see through its pretension… “See it to be a lie, and you have already dealt it its moral blow.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
October 21, 2024
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September 24, 2024
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Recovering Therapist
“A recovering therapists happens when they realizes that they are a healer.” Dr. Adam O’Brien
September 20, 2024
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Medical Necessity
“Necessity is the mother of invention, but necessity is in the eye of the beholder.” Dr. Adam O’Brien
September 18, 2024
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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).
September 17, 2024
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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 good for justice. And if you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.” Saint Thomas Aquinas
August 8, 2024
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