PSYCHOLOGY AND SELF-HELP BLOG
Dr. Zwig merges psychology, physics, neuroscience, and music to show how distressing states of mind aren’t pathologies but rather signs of personal growth trying to happen.
Your Problem Is Your Guide
Your problems are not wrong. They feel awful but they’re not pathologies to just try to zap away. They’re meaningful and purposeful processes designed to wake you up to something new, increase your self awareness, and expand who you are. They’re your personal growth trying to happen.
How Your Problems Are Your Personal Growth Trying To Happen
Life problems are not pathological but rather unseen processes of change and growth trying to get your attention.
Why People Believe Falsehoods about the Brain and Mental Health
If you’re okay with taking psychiatric medications, you may not want to read this. Also, never stop meds without doctor supervision and therapeutic support. In this blog post I identify a profound problem in psychiatry and psychology. At the bottom of the post there are links to a few of my case...
How Clara Healed Her Severe Mood Swings
Clara's Gorilla * Years ago in Switzerland I had a client who had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. When I first met Clara, a 22 year-old university student, she told me she'd received her bipolar diagnosis and medication from her psychiatrist but hated the side-effects of the drugs. The...
Psychiatry and Psychology: Objective Science or Pseudoscience?
Is Dr. Zwig Crazy? I have a very strange relationship with the field of psychology: I’ve dedicated my life to studying it despite the fact that I consider most of it to be bad science. You may wonder why anyone in their right mind would spend so many years doing something he doesn’t believe in....
How Jeremy Broke Out of His Muteness
Jeremy was a twenty-year-old man who came to my practice in Zurich at the insistence of his parents and doctors. He had stopped speaking, wouldn’t go to his university classes, and had withdrawn into his apartment. When his parents visited him he sat completely still in the corner, wouldn’t talk to them, and didn’t even make eye contact. They forced him to see a psychiatrist who diagnosed him with Selective Mutism Disorder which is a type of social anxiety that makes one clam up in certain situations.
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