Learned Mindfulness | Psychology Today psychologytoday.com/us/blog/envy/2…

Virtue must be learnt.

"To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight." Wonderful read from a wonderful mind: themarginalian.org/2017/09/25/e-e…

If you need a witness, be your own.

I was privileged to meet and learn from Gregory Bateson in the late seventies. He is currently much underrated, but was an insightful person.

Three million views on my YouTube channel Emmy’s Existential Zone. Thanks to all my viewers for watching my videos. #existential

Emmy’s Existential Zone is a treasure trove of #existential videos on every topic imaginable. It’s become a community in its own right. With 82 thousand subscribers and counting it is now the size a small city like Bath or Chester.

It has been shown by Kurt Lewin that a shared project and purpose unite people more effectively than a common hatred. #socialpsychology

Awareness emerges from the experience of pain, but has to be educated.

New review of my book: 'Though sure to continue challenging people’s ingrained beliefs, it needs to be known. As Vasily Grossman put it, “It is the writer's duty to tell the terrible truth, and it is a reader's civic duty to learn this truth.”' amazon.co.uk/Chemically-Imb…

In Vienna for the 10th World Congress for Psychotherapy. Here with Alfried Laengle and the chair of the Austrian Association for #Psychotherapy.

My keynote on Purpose and Paradox at the 10th World Congress for Psychotherapy in Vienna. youtu.be/TJsiGU8pWcc?si… #existential

Purpose and Paradox. #existential speech to the 10th World Congress for Psychotherapy.

A remarkable #existential channel on YouTube.

Why so much research into addiction is plain wrong. 🧵 Addiction is not simply a compulsion or a moral failing. It is a maligned form of attachment. When early caregivers are absent, frightening, or unpredictable, the child turns to internal strategies.

I never thought there'd be a day in which I'd be watching Dr. Roger McFillin , Adam Urato, MD , Dr Joanna Moncrieff , Dr. Josef 🇺🇸 , Jeffrey Lacasse , and David Healy speak at the U.S. FDA about the risks of taking SSRIs in pregnancy but here we are. Cheek-pinching moment. What a time of

Remember the 2024 Henssler review claiming only 1 in 6 have antidepressant withdrawal symptoms & 1 in 30 severe symptoms? Here we show it was based on highly unreliable data & can't be used to estimate withdrawal effects 1/n JohnRed Mark Horowitz @markhoro.bsky.social Dr James Davies (PhD) 💭 cambridge.org/core/journals/…

New piece: What If We Stopped Calling Them “Disorders?” (below 👇)

"I thank you, light… for your visible invisibility, the way you make me look at the face of the world so that everything becomes an eye to everything else… so that I can have this one other way along with every other way, to know that I am here." A beam of radiance for