Negative Psychology

Essays on radical uncertainty

Podcasting since 2021 • 75 episodes

Negative Psychology

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Negative Capability

Psychological work does not involve 'forcing ourselves to be a particular way'. That isn't psychological work - that's simply fear. Whenever we find that we are either trying to suppress or promote some particular state of mind ...

May 16, 2026 • 6:18

Soul Sickness

We know fair bit about physical sickness these days, but frighteningly little (if anything at all) about Jung refers to as 'sickness of the soul'. We don't acknowledge that there is such a thing. This doesn't mean that we won't 'learn about it ...

May 16, 2026 • 9:56

Mental Health versus Control

We conflate 'mental health' and 'control' (or 'regulation') such that - as far as we're concerned - the more control we have the better off we will be, mental health-wise. This is clearly not the case - the more we try to control or re...

May 15, 2026 • 11:19

Wholeness

Society pretends to be one thing, but really it's quite another.

May 14, 2026 • 5:44

Western Mindfulness [1]

Western mindfulness is 'mindfulness with an agenda', the problem here being that when mindfulness has an agenda then it isn't mindfulness. It's not mindfulness but control.

May 14, 2026 • 12:48

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