Mental Health - The Negative Psychologist

When reality is replaced by the 'antithetical' or 'upside-down' version of itself then instead of happiness we have to make do with something else. Happiness is no longer on the...

Mental Health

Opting For an Inferior Self

Jul 28. 2018

Just about every minute of every day we are enthusiastically ‘opting for an inferior self’. This sounds suspiciously like a moral kind of statement but it isn’t. This isn’t the...

Mental Health

The Error-Paradigm – Part 2

May 17. 2018

In the ‘neurotic’ conditions what has happened – across the board, for every single condition – is that our attempts to ‘fix the problem’ have become a far bigger problem...

Mental Health

The ‘Error-Paradigm’ – Part 1

Apr 26. 2018

Our default setting for understanding both neurotic and psychotic states of mind is the ‘error paradigm’ – we see what is going on in terms of an error to be...

Mental Health

The Robot Self

Apr 07. 2018

Anxiety occurs when we send out a 'robot-self' into the world to do some sort of task and that robot self gets cut off from its source (somehow) and so...

Mental Health

The Cure For The Pain…

Mar 19. 2018

Whenever a distortion (or 'bias') is introduced into the picture the universe (by which we mean ‘the Totality of Everything’) unfailingly offers the ‘correction’ to this distortion (or 'bias') in...

Mental Health

The Root Of Neurosis

Jan 20. 2018

The clearest and most essential way that we have of understanding neurosis and neurotic suffering of all kinds is to say that it arises as a direct consequence of the...

Mental Health

The Train Of Thought

Jan 10. 2018

It is interesting to notice what our attention is stuck to during the course of the day. One thing that is very interesting straightaway is to notice the way in...

Mental Health

The Error Of Positive Therapy

Dec 26. 2017

Our modern approach to what we so glibly call ‘mental health’ is the biggest farce going! Never in the course of human history has there been a more nonsensical and...

Mental Health

Rationalizing Anxiety

Nov 09. 2017

We come out with all sorts of impressively sophisticated theories to explain anxiety – it is as if we hope to frighten the anxiety away through being so very clever...