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Rather than attempting to legitimate astrology as a form of therapy, though, couldn’t we see its liberatory potential as more like analysis? As a way of “speaking with” the Other,

Psychotherapy and psychoanalysis get lumped together as mental health treatments, but the difference between them is crucial. Understanding that difference helps make sense of why mainstream culture marginalizes not only

Stated disbelief in magic is “rational,” yet saying we're rational doesn’t make it so. Research shows that so-called irrational, magical thinking lurks right below the skeptical surface of the minds

Jung's personality typology uses a few basic concepts and principles to derive 16 personality ways of being in the world. Here, I sketch the conceptual building blocks of Jung’s model,

Jung’s theory of personality types popularized the terms extraversion & introversion, but we tend to use those terms differently than he did. In this thread I give an overview of

Unconscious phenomena such as dreams and projective identification have long been seen as uncanny & strange—even paranormal. In this thread I explore the ambivalent ways that psychoanalysts have engaged with

Myers-Briggs (MBTI) types come under frequent criticism from skeptical rationalists. In this thread, I consider and respond some of those criticisms from the perspective of Jung’s theory of psychological types

The myth of the mentally ill witch in textbooks of abnormal psychology: a thread on history, ideology, the status of the occult within clinical psychology, and why I am skeptical

How divination is like psychotherapy: a thread on healing, culture, and colonialism. (This thread jump off from my previous thread on how colonialist academic psychology denigrates astrology and divination as

Even spicier, though, are studies showing that under conditions of stress and risk, you can provoke Western adults to behave as if they believe in magic. Magical thinking doesn’t mature

How academic psychology tries (and fails) to dunk on astrology, a thread. 1/https://twitter.com/500livesasafox/status/1259255911102722049 The root of the problem is a construct called “magical thinking” that developmental psychologists like Piaget us