Long-form essays on recovery, depth psychology, and what it actually takes to restore the capacity to feel.
The word 'hysteria' appears three times in the Big Book. Each use reveals how psychology's founding misogyny — from Plato's wandering womb through Charcot and Freud — filtered into the spiritual program that millions treat as scripture.
In 1958, Bill Wilson admitted that the twelve steps were not adequate to address his emotional issues. In the 1980s, John Welwood named the same problem from the opposite direction: spiritual bypassing. What they converge on is that spiritual heights do not equal emotional depth.
In 1987, a woman walking through a park accidentally recovered what Xanthippe was doing at the door of the Phaedo in 399 BCE. The body's technology for processing grief was suppressed for twenty-four centuries. EMDR is its clinical rediscovery.
The archetype of the Alcoholic is the Trickster in modern costume — half animal, half divine, indifferent to the ego's survival, concerned only with its collapse. When the trap succeeds without killing, the same energy shapeshifts into the Shaman who heals.
The untold story of how a Spanish anthropologist's shamanic alcoholism, a Pueblo elder's challenge, and a Harvard philosopher's radical empiricism gave Carl Jung the insight that became the foundation of the Twelve Steps.
Convergence psychology is a clinical and theoretical framework that synthesizes Homeric somatic psychology, interoceptive neuroscience, and Jungian depth psychology to map how the feeling function operates, how it breaks down in addiction, and how it can be restored.
A clinical and historical analysis of how the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous map onto Carl Jung's individuation process — not as metaphor but as structural correspondence, grounded in the Jung-Wilson exchange and traceable step by step through ego deflation, shadow confrontation, and encounter with the Self.
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