Thomas W. Moore·May 5, 2025Enjoy Your Enjoyment — Lacanian Jouissance in the BrainHow do you view the world, the cosmos, N(n)ature, G(g)od. Is it some transcendent, intangible oneness? Or is it split at its root…A response icon7A response icon7
Thomas W. Moore·Apr 1, 2025The Religion of Therapy — Zen, Psychoanalysis & The Counselor’s Secret RadicalismImmersed, as many of us are, in a culture that frames regular therapy as part of a well-balanced self-care routine and inundated by…A response icon9A response icon9
Thomas W. Moore·Mar 26, 2025Provisional Aspirations: Season 2 — The New PsychodynamicWelcome to the second season of Provisional Aspirations. This year marks the third year of a podcast I launched as a platform to explore…
Thomas W. Moore·Oct 23, 2024Stop Whining & Make Yourself Happy — Albert Ellis’s Controversial Rational Emotive BehavioralAlbert Ellis was a prolific writer, with sixty-eight books published for the public reader listed on his Wikipedia page. Ellis’s 1999…
Thomas W. Moore·Sep 20, 2024Romance as Rebellion — Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Sex, Love, and Group AffiliationUsing the term “love” in 2024 feels decidedly passe, dare I say, traditionalist.A response icon1A response icon1
Thomas W. Moore·Jul 11, 2024Active Inference & The Emergence of Philosophical ThoughtApplications of Karl Friston’s Free Energy Principle to Philosophy and Psychotherapy
Thomas W. Moore·May 21, 2024On Belief — Faith As Defense Mechanism & Applications to Multicultural CounselingFor the first three decades of my life, religious belief was central to my worldview. My deeply held religious beliefs also formed my…
Thomas W. Moore·May 8, 2024The Antagonism is The Real — Zizek, The Negative Principle & The Neuroscience of Therapeutic…There’s a mystery and excitement in autodidactism.
Thomas W. Moore·Apr 9, 2024The Dao of PsychotherapyLeveraging the Therapeutic Superpowers of the Bi-hemispheric Brain
Thomas W. Moore·Mar 13, 2024We are looking at the brain all wrong…Popular neuroscience…we know the drill. But what if our theoretical blindspots are leading us astray.A response icon4A response icon4
