Notes on Therapy
Insights from the therapy room (or Google Meet window, if you will).
BIG READ: Therapy must stop being too nice - especially in the age of AI
'Comfort' and 'validation' are critical concepts in therapy but they must have their limits, or they might degenerate into the kind of sycophancy AI bots are accused of.
Launching Sanitify: Mini-guides and explainers to complex questions
Edition 1: How to smash the money taboo in therapy
Therapy's 'human touch' is nearing its sell-by date
Human-ness was therapy's biggest defence against AI. It may not be enough anymore.
Are you a conflict entrepreneur?
Rage bait on social media can get you a big following. But it creates zero change.
BIG READ | The four sins therapy shares with journalism, and how to fix them
Failure to keep up with technology, mistreating workers, emphasising despair over hope, lack of diversity and erosion of trust.
▶️ MASTERCLASS | The gung-ho rise of therapy content on social media, and the ethics of therapist-content creators/-influencers
One of the most meaningful things I've ever built.
Your therapist is a social media star. What would Freud, Jung, Adler, Winnicott, and Klein say?
Plus a note on the future of Sanity.
Your therapist wrote about you. How does that make you feel?
A Sanity community member takes on one of the thorniest questions in therapy.
Money can be a taboo topic in therapy. Here's how you can break free.
Approach your discomfort with curiosity instead of fear.
Society, pay thy therapists fairly
A quick history of paying for healthcare, and why supporting therapists' right to fair pay is everyone's job.
Help! My therapist is awkward about money.
A new series on a secret burden in therapy.
🗝️ Sanity Classics: "I don't trust therapists because they 'hijack' my patients."
My bizarre encounter with a small-town psychiatrist.