Mythology is Ancient Psychology
An exploration of how mythological narratives encode psychological truths that predate modern clinical language by millennia. Traces the parallels between archetypal motifs and contemporary therapeutic constructs.
Publications
A growing body of work spanning clinical guides, self-help, depth psychology, and neurodiversity. Written for clinicians, researchers, and the thoughtful general reader.
Forthcoming and in-development titles across clinical psychology, self-help, and depth psychology.
The Non-Negotiable Expectations That Define Who You Are
A guide to identifying, articulating, and holding the eight fundamental boundaries that protect your identity, relationships, and sense of self. Grounded in attachment theory, schema therapy, and existential philosophy.
The Non-Negotiable Expectations You Owe Yourself
The companion volume to 8 Lines, turning the lens inward. Explores the eight parallel commitments we must hold toward ourselves: Presence, Truth, Safety, Freedom, Ownership, Balance, Consent, and Integrity.
A Clinical Framework for Understanding, Healing, and Rebuilding Your Identity
A comprehensive clinical guide for adults navigating the aftermath of narcissistic parenting. Integrates psychodynamic theory, attachment science, and schema therapy into a practical recovery framework.
Understanding the Psychology of Relationship Endings
An exploration of why relationships end, how we process loss, and what genuine recovery looks like. Bridges attachment theory, grief psychology, and neuroscience.
Understanding Emotion, Identity, and Connection
Written specifically for men navigating emotional disconnection, identity confusion, and relational difficulties. Challenges outdated models of masculinity through neuroscience and depth psychology.
A Journey Toward Psychological Wholeness
An in-depth exploration of psychological integration drawing on Jungian individuation, Internal Family Systems, and contemporary neuroscience. For readers seeking to understand the architecture of the psyche.
Integrating Neuroscience, Depth, and Clinical Practice
A vision for psychotherapy that bridges the gap between evidence-based protocols and the deeper dimensions of human experience. Written for clinicians seeking theoretical integration.
A Comprehensive Framework for Assessment and Treatment
A clinical reference for practitioners working with ADHD across the lifespan. Covers neurobiological foundations, assessment methodology, medication considerations, and psychotherapeutic approaches.
Understanding Late Diagnosis and the Unmasking Journey
Explores the lived experience of adults diagnosed with autism later in life. Examines masking, identity reconstruction, sensory processing, and the path from diagnosis to self-understanding.
Disentangling Personality, Neurodevelopment, and Adaptation
Examines the clinical challenge of differentiating between personality traits, neurodevelopmental profiles, and trauma adaptations. Essential reading for diagnostic clarity.
When Protection Becomes a Prison
An exploration of how safety-seeking behaviours, avoidance patterns, and overprotection can paradoxically maintain suffering. Draws on polyvagal theory and existential psychology.
A Guide to Surviving Psychological Crisis
Written for people in the depths of psychological crisis. Practical, compassionate, and grounded in clinical experience. Not a self-help formula but a companion through the darkest passages.
Mapping the Deep Structure of Psychological Injury
A clinical framework for understanding the foundational wounds beneath presenting symptoms. Integrates schema therapy, attachment theory, and psychodynamic thinking.
The Architecture of Complex Emotional Experience
An unflinching examination of three of the most powerful and least understood emotional states. Explores their neurobiological roots, developmental origins, and therapeutic pathways.
Reclaiming Rest in a Culture of Burnout
Explores the psychology of burnout, the neuroscience of rest, and the cultural forces that make stillness feel dangerous. For high-achievers, carers, and anyone who has forgotten how to stop.
Understanding and Transforming Self-Attack
A deep exploration of the internal critic from multiple therapeutic perspectives. Integrates IFS parts work, schema therapy, Jungian shadow, and compassion-focused approaches.
When Family Systems Become Closed Systems
Examines how some family structures develop cult-like dynamics: information control, loyalty demands, scapegoating, and reality distortion. A clinical and personal guide to recognising and escaping.
The Psychology of Symbolic Experience
An exploration of how symbolic thinking shapes identity, meaning-making, and therapeutic transformation. Draws on Jungian psychology, mythology, and contemporary cognitive science.
Publishing Note: These titles represent a selection from a larger body of work in development. Publication dates will be announced through The Depth Current newsletter. For professional or media enquiries regarding forthcoming publications, please get in touch.
Clinical and philosophical articles published through The Depth Current.
An exploration of how mythological narratives encode psychological truths that predate modern clinical language by millennia. Traces the parallels between archetypal motifs and contemporary therapeutic constructs.
Examines the therapeutic relationship as a dynamic interplay between proximity and distance, holding and releasing. Draws on attachment theory and relational psychodynamics.
A scholarly review of clonidine as an adjunctive treatment for ADHD and ASD in paediatric populations. Examines the evidence base to support informed clinical collaboration between prescribers and psychotherapeutic practitioners.
Explores how Taoist philosophy anticipated fractal mathematics and complexity theory. Argues that the Tao offers a phenomenological framework for understanding self-similar patterns across scales of experience.
Investigates how unconscious perceptual filters shape clinical presentation and therapeutic interaction. Integrates predictive processing theory with psychodynamic concepts of projection and transference.
A comprehensive clinical framework for treating eating disorders in neurodiverse populations. Addresses ARFID, interoceptive differences, sensory profiles, and the intersection of autistic identity with disordered eating.
An analysis of the Hermetic philosophical tradition and its psychological implications. Examines the Emerald Tablet as a map of individuation and psychological transformation.
Proposes a four-stage model of psychological development that integrates Kegan constructive-developmental theory with Jungian individuation and contemporary attachment research.
Identifies the foundational structures of psychological functioning and explores how damage to these structures manifests in clinical presentation. A structural model for clinical formulation.
Examines the neurodevelopmental and attachment origins of rejection sensitivity, particularly in ADHD and ASD populations. Offers an integrated treatment framework combining schema therapy and compassion-focused approaches.
Explores how the emotional inhibition schema develops in the context of relational trauma and cultural conditioning. Links schema formation to autonomic nervous system patterning.
A clinical examination of burnout beyond the workplace framing. Explores the neurobiological, relational, and existential dimensions of sustained depletion.
A comprehensive guide to the phenomenon of social masking in neurodivergent populations. Examines the costs, functions, and clinical implications of chronic camouflaging.
Examines the clinical overlap between anxiety, depression, and their neurodevelopmental comorbidities. Proposes an integrated assessment framework for complex presentations.
Explores the emerging evidence linking autonomic dysfunction, complex trauma, and mast cell activation syndrome. A psychoneuroimmunological perspective on chronic illness and trauma.
An archetypal analysis of the Moloch figure as a symbol for the internal destructive forces of self-criticism, perfectionism, and self-sacrifice. Bridges mythology with clinical practice.
Examines the conditions under which trauma can become a catalyst for psychological growth rather than chronic suffering. Integrates post-traumatic growth research with depth psychological perspectives.
A practical clinical guide for adapting therapeutic engagement strategies for clients who are both neurodiverse and trauma-affected. Addresses sensory considerations, communication differences, and relational pacing.
Examines how differences in object permanence manifest in ADHD and ASD, and how these differences impact relationships, emotional regulation, and daily functioning.
Explores the deep connection between neurodivergent masking and impostor syndrome. Argues that chronic social camouflaging creates a structural foundation for persistent self-doubt.
A clinical guide to differentiating between personality disorder presentations, neurodevelopmental profiles, and trauma adaptations in complex clients.
Examines Stoic philosophy as a psychological defence system. Explores both its protective function and its potential to become a rigid avoidance strategy when misapplied.
Proposes a Taoist-informed framework for understanding the fractal nature of psychological and phenomenological experience. Bridges Eastern philosophy with Western complexity science.