Dr. Thor is a newsletter that explains the brain science behind procrastination, framing it as an "Undone" monster that drains mental bandwidth. Each issue uses accessible analogies, such as a rodeo chute or a house party, to show how the prefrontal cortex and basal ganglia shape whether we act or hold back.
Website: https://www.docthor.com/
Donald J. Robertson, a cognitive-behavioural therapist, explains Stoic philosophy and its practical psychological techniques, drawing on primary sources such as Seneca, Marcus Aurelius and Musonius Rufus. Issues combine close reading of ancient texts with comparisons to modern CBT, plus guided exercises and worksheets for paid subscribers.
A Substack publication featuring essays and guest posts on philosophical, critical and scientific debates in psychiatry, psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. Readers get first-person accounts of lived experience, clinical reflections and scholarly commentary on how care, medication and moral values intersect with mental health practice.
Personal essays on relationships, thinking, creativity and agency, written from a family life on a Baltic island. Readers get reflective, exploratory writing that works through questions such as why music moves us and how to get unstuck creatively.
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