The Weird History of Psychotherapy Part 5: Casting New Gods from Forgotten Bars of Gold

The ancient wisdom that keeps coming back because it's true

Athens, 399 BCE. Socrates holds the cup of hemlock, about to die for something that can't be proven - only known. The daimonion. The inner voice. The shamanic function that guides from beyond rational thought.

2,400 years later, we call it the unconscious. Or intuition. Or the default mode network. Same truth, different words: There's something in us that knows, and everything depends on whether we listen.

This final episode reveals the perennial philosophy underlying all effective therapy. The wisdom that every culture discovers, then forgets, then rediscovers when the forgetting becomesunbearable.

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You'll learn:

• Why depression and anxiety might be evolutionary features, not bugs
• The eternal tension between warriors (order) and shamans (transformation)
• How modern neuroscience validates ancient insights about multiple selves
• Why we keep forgetting what works (hint: there's no profit in wholeness)
• The metamodern moment: learning to hold paradox in a polarized world
• What therapy looks like when it remembers we're shamanic beings

From Socrates' inner voice to Jung's active imagination to modern parts work, the same insights keep emerging. Not because they're trendy, but because they're true. True like the sunrise. True like the need for love. True like the mystery we can never fully grasp but must learn to dance with.

 

📚 RELEVANT BLOG ARTICLES FROM TAPROOT THERAPY:

On Intuition vs Trauma (Featured in Episode): 

Brain-Based Therapies for Trauma:

 Understanding Internal Family Systems (Parts Work):

Parts-Based Therapy Explained:

NARM Therapy for Developmental Trauma: 

Body-Brain Connection in Trauma Healing:

 

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