We live in an era when the abundance of psychologically informed material has never before been so prevalent and accessible, yet this reality exists side by side with the statistically documented profile of a mental health crisis that reaches across national borders and socio-economic divides. In a recent CNN poll, 9 out of 10 US adults said they believed there is a mental health crisis in the US today, with over half of those respondents saying they were experiencing a sever…

“Rational argument can be conducted with some prospect of success only so long as the emotionality of a given situation does not exceed a certain critical degree. If the affective temperature rises above this level, the possibility of reason’s having any effect ceases and its place is taken by slogans and chimerical wish-fantasies, That is to say, a sort of collective possession results which rapidly develops into a psychic epidemic.”

– Carl Jung, The Undiscovered

with Betty P. Teng, LCSW, MFA and Thomas Singer, M.D.

In the preface of their newly released book, Mind of State, based on the popular podcast by the same name ,co-authors Betty Teng and Thomas Singer write this: “so much of what is called political is, in fact, psychological, and so much of what is psychological has become political. The boundaries between the two are porous, and yet when you try to talk to politicians about psychology, they tend to go dumb—and when you try to tal…