Neuroscience & Psychotherapy Blog Feed

3 days ago9 min read

Epicarnation.🧬

Why we ❤️ epigenetics so. Also on science-washing and therapists' search for meaning.

Nov 167 min read

Breaking Up With Bad Science Podcast: The Huberman Hubris

You know it's bad when even a therapist can tell it's bad science. Next stop? The Lizard brain.

Oct 266 min read

Zombie Theories and Cargo Cult In Psychotherapy

Halloween Special 🎃: Why Zombie Theories Cling to the World of the Living—Cargo Cults, Religion, and Psychotherapy.

Sep 288 min read

Schrödinger's Cat of Psychotherapy

Folie a deux. On the use of neuroscience in psychotherapy, cognitive dissonances and nondeterministic cognitive workarounds that arise.

Sep 217 min read

Neuro Bollocks(And Psychotherapy)

What is it about humans and the prefix 'neuro-'? What makes us so susceptible to suspending our disbelief in its presence? And why, as thera

Sep 74 min read

But Who Is Really Keeping the Score?

A deeper-than-toe-dip dive into the logic behind the zeitgeist expression 'the body keeps the score'. Applying Occam's razor and exploring o

Aug 315 min read

Are You Invested? A Primer In Sunk Cost Fallacy for Therapists.

A reflection on cognitive biases in therapy. Thinking fast, thinking slow. Thinking high, thinking low. With a little dig in the end.

Aug 105 min read

Zombie Theories In Psychotherapy and The Neuroscience Mystique

Can you spot any zombie theories in psychotherapy? Are you a fun of neuro-mystique? Let's find out.

Jul 224 min read

Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde In Therapy: How The Brain Lateralisation Captivated Our Collective Imagination

Exploring the origins of left brain/right brain narrative. An invitation to think about the narratives we adopt as therapists.