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June 2015

June 29, 2015

Don’t Abuse the Term “Trigger Warning”

Progressive evangelicalism increasingly markets itself as a friend to the abused. One way this occurs...

March 2015

March 14, 2015

Kinds of Fear

An excerpt from the DSM-5 which presents the American Psychological Association's taxonomy for different kinds of...

December 2014

December 23, 2014

Creeley on Fear, Love, and Self

Robert Creeley's profound poem "For Fear" — that's all.

October 2013

October 25, 2013

Emotions, Self-Control, and Your Brain

Over a century ago, Ivan Pavlov published his infamous volume, which we are all familiar...

October 10, 2013

Review of Nagel in the Journal of Psychology & Theology

The Journal of Psychology & Theology was gracious enough to publish my review of Thomas...

October 04, 2013

Why and How Traumatic Amnesia Occurs

The question of “recovered memories” often carries with it a (often harmful and misguided) stigma...

September 2013

September 04, 2013

Metaphor and Self, Part 2: The Emotional World of Romantic Love

Our emotional life is not constituted by crass literalism, but is strewn with – composed...

August 2013

August 25, 2013

Feminists on the Trauma of Abuse Research

For the past month and a half, I have been writing a review essay on...

August 23, 2013

The Science of Emotions and Embarrassment

"Emotions are a primary idiom for defining and negotiating social relations of the self in...