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Depth psychology


Attachment Style: What It Tells, and What Remains Out of Reach
On what "attachment style" tries to name, what the popular categories cannot reach, and the structural difference between situational suffering, where these frameworks help, and structural suffering, where they fall flat.

Kirstan Lloyd
May 1612 min read
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When "Fake It Till You Make It" Doesn't Work
Imposter syndrome doesn't mean the same thing for everyone. A clinical psychologist on why "fake it till you make it" lands flat for some people, and what shifts the feeling that no evidence can touch.

Kirstan Lloyd
May 911 min read
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What's actually under the word burnout?
Burnout has become the dominant frame professional exhaustion. But the standard clinical framework (a mismatch between person and workplace) does not reach what walks into my consulting room wearing the label. What I see, more often, is an internal mismatch. Between who someone hoped to be and where they have found themselves.

Kirstan Lloyd
May 19 min read
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What Are We Actually Treating When We Treat RSD?
RSD is one of the most widely used terms in contemporary mental health. But it is not a diagnosis, and for many people it has become something more concerning than a label. It has become an identity. This piece asks what gets lost when that happens, and what depth psychology offers instead.

Kirstan Lloyd
Apr 257 min read
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The Grief That Arrives Before You Do: On Transgenerational Displacement and Inherited Grief
Displacement does not end with the generation that moved. It travels, often silently, carried by children who never knew they were holding something that was never originally theirs. A psychologist's perspective on inherited grief, the parentified child, and what genuine integration actually requires.

Kirstan Lloyd
Apr 166 min read
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