Derivative Psychology

06/22/2025

Started applying principles of process psychology as a psych student and ESL teacher in Tokyo, and went on a lot of walkabouts while trying to find other tools I could use to help break down cognitive barriers to a more introspective sense of Self.

Since then, and back in the states, my career has led to a wide variety of residential programs, where we work through trauma, crises and addiction in mostly enclosed facilities equipped to help individuals caught between dual-diagnoses.

Where our ability to go on walks in the city is limited, a deck of tarot cards has never failed to break down walls and provide the space and focus needed to uncover those moments of deep reflection.
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11/03/2024

IDENTITY: Searching for a signal in the static.

IdentityEadum Mutata Resurgo, or, “I rise again, changed but the same.” – Bernoulli I first saw that quote in a book about Kurt Gödel, a 20th century mathematician and philosopher whose theories in math have found relevance in quantum computing and neuroscience, or something like that. Anyway...

10/18/2024

SOLITUDE: More and more, I'm wanting less and less.

1. The World It's mid-October in Eastern Tennessee and in our house, we're transitioning over to accommodate a lot more time spent indoors. I think at this point we do it instinctively, in the same way we open the windows and clean out closets come springtime. I'll rearrange the workspace for some w...

09/08/2024

07/17/2024

The universe has other plans for me than writing so here's an oldie, but a(n iffily written) goodie about 'flow' state while I wait on a new motherboard 😎

Whether it's a pattern in the branches or coming across a particular reference over and over, symbols are the tools of the subconscious and paying attention to them is the only way to exist without having a mind-racking grip of control. The more subtle aspects of our psyche (read: subconscious) have...

05/11/2024

Mhmm.

It's been seven years, I've completed a journey that Cambell himself would be proud of and I return with new knowledge. Without wasting any more words, the subconscious (unconscious for the Freudians) is something each and every one of us engages with, all the time, within ourselves and others, whet...