Sat.Dec 28, 2024

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The Power of ā€˜Iā€™: Finding Yourself in Relationships. A Task for 2025.

The Online Therapist

The years roll on quicker as you get older but with that comes more wisdom and security. I always tend to look back over a year and compare it to where I was the same time, the prior year. A useful exercise that can reveal progress made (or not).

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Modern Psychology and Its Colonial Legacy

Mad in America

I recently came across a post on an ADHD campaign in a village in India. It involved the administration of psychological tests to the kids in the village to diagnose them with ADHD. The intention of this exercise, to spread mental health awareness and provide access to resources (diagnosis, testing, and possibly medication) to this village, requires several foundational assumptionsthat our modern psychological methods are advanced, that traditional communities are primitive in their way of handl