Dear Readers,

It has been two years, August of 2023 to be exact, since my last post; I have been reading and writing but not publishing.

Some history:

I originally intended this blog to be a resource for my psychotherapy patients: Background information on psychological topics that would supplement what was provided during therapy sessions.

After sessions I occasionally texted patients, with their permission of course, with links to various posts.

But two things happened to negate the initial purpose of this blog:

First, in June of 2024, I retired from psychology.

Second, after June of 2024, I realized that my patients had been too busy with their lives to have read the posts.

I forgive myself by thinking my texts were not spam because the messages showed their therapist cared about them.

But there is another reason for the two-year pause:

 

A futile search for the GUT of psychology

Since graduate school I have been searching for the grand unified theory (GUT) of psychology. ((The concept of a grand unified theory comes from theoretical physics that posits the unification of three of the four forces of nature. The four forces are gravity, electromagnetic, strong nuclear, and weak nuclear. The latter three forces were thought to have momentarily unified in the high energy field of the first nanoseconds of the universe. Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time provides an introduction for us non-physicists.))

I have seen human behavior as the proverbial layers of an onion to be peeled until the enlightenment was reached at the center.

As I wrote each blog post, the thirteen published so far, and the fifty plus written and trashed, the GUT of psycholology continually eluded me.

 

Going forward

So, from now on I will lay aside pursuing a grand unified theory of psychology.

Instead, I will humbly present some thoughts on psychology.

I will not call them my thoughts because I will have gathered most of them from others.

But I will call them curated thoughts because I will have chosen them according to their usefulness.

Because blogging is a joint enterprise between readers and the author, please comment so that other readers and I can profit from your thoughts.

 

Sincerely, 

Michael

 

Michael DeCaria, Ph.D.

Clinical Psychology

Millcreek, Utah

Onbecomeingaperson.com

 

About the featured image: Big Boy railroad locomotive steams across the Great Basin of western Utah. (Photograph by the author)