What Freud Didn't Know

Emotional Well-being through Neuroscience and Psychology

Tim Stokes has been doing psychotherapy for more than 30 years. He is the clinical director of Corporate Psychological Services and author of What Freud Didn't Know (January 2010). See full bio

September 30, 2009

Normal brains create most of our psychological problems

Evolution did its job to safeguard us, now we have to deal with the result: psychological problems. Read More

September 14, 2009

Got a stubborn psychological problem? You can probably blame your amygdala.

The brains tendency to record emotion memories seems to underlie much of what we regret: over-reactions, under-reactions, feelings, assumptions and behaviors that persist even though they don’t fit our circumstances. (And, stay tuned: this understanding can help us master these problems.) Read More

June 20, 2009

Neurobiology doesn’t reduce human experience into mechanistic meaninglessness.

Some suggest that embracing the neurobiology that underpins human experience reduces all that is rich and valuable in human life into biochemical mechanisms. The author suggests that experience and the biology that underlies it are actually two different things. They don’t equate. Read More

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