Stranger in a Strange Land, Being a Stranger to Your Self, and Belonging to a World That Rewards Estrangement so That You May no Longer Recognise Your Self as Missing The Architecture of Estrangement A person may spend forty years acquiring an extraordinary education, performing work of genuine value, earning the admiration of colleagues and finally arriving at the destination towards which the whole of their life appears to have been directed. The partnership is achieved. Th

Why do ACEs Burnout? The Fire, the Fan and the Fuel: Why the Brightest Burn First Burnout and the Prodigious Crashing Star Burnout is not that there is too much to do but rather that for that elite professional nothing is ever good enough: they will never willingly choose to stop. They have subconsciously adopted the elite profession as a replacement for the conditionally loving parent of their childhood, and eventually they appoint themselves to that role. Elite professional

Today I am releasing my new book: "How Do ACEs Burnout? The Fire, the Fan and the Fuel. Why the Brightest Burn First" "How Do ACEs Burnout? The Fire, the Fan and the Fuel. Why the Brightest Burn First" The book is available now as a standalone PDF from my website. "How Do ACEs Burnout? The Fire, the Fan and the Fuel. Why the Brightest Burn First" This is a full standalone book about elite professional burnout, childhood adaptation, Adverse Childhood Experiences, insecure over

By Dr Olly Alexander Branford MD, MBBS, MA(CANTAB), PhD Book One is now available. This article is the free doorway into the argument. The full first volume of the burnout trilogy is now available as a standalone PDF: How Do ACEs Burnout? Volume I — The Fire, the Fan and the Fuel It asks why stopping can feel more dangerous than burning out, why the brightest and most capable professionals often burn first, and why workplace stress alone cannot explain the full human phenomen

The ego is the petrified inner child in cognitive armour: It scales from the nursery to the role, the profession, the discipline, the institution and the civilisation. Prologue: The Amygdala Did Not Go to University There is a finding, and there is the silence that followed it. In 1998, Vincent Felitti, Robert Anda and colleagues published ‘Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults: The Adverse Childhood Experie

Introduction “We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself. He is the great danger, and we are pitifully unaware of it. We know nothing of man, far too little. His psyche should be studied — because we are the origin of all coming evil.” Carl Gustav Jung "Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence." Erich Fromm, ‘The Art of Loving’ This article belongs to the second movement of the ser

Introduction For the first of my ebooks 'The Human Condition and How To Heal It — Book One: Diagnosis' click here: 'The Human Condition and How To Heal It — Book One: Diagnosis' The "Self-Exempting Tribunal" is a concept used in the framework to describe any system of classification, discipline, or profession that grants itself the single exemption it grants to nothing else: exemption from its own classifying gaze. While disciplines meticulously sort human experience into cat

Projection, cancel culture, the epistemology of hate, ontological arrogance, denial, adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), duality, and the myth of neutrality in law — and the way out: Love is a verb, a skill and a ‘Will’. Love is not only a way of BEing, but also how you do BEing. You are worthy. SUM ERGO DILIGO “I AM, Therefore I Love” “Je Suis, Donc J’aime” Sorry René: Pourquoi nous avez-vous guillotines? Dr Olly Alexander Branford MD MBBS MA (Cantab) PhD One hand in th

Introduction The 'Pivot' & The Zero Step' This article is totally off your piste, but that’s where the fresh powder is. Its new, exhilarating, and nothing is artificial. It will propel you into making your own fresh tracks, if you turn at the ‘Pivot’. The article explores how tragic drama illustrates the psychological struggle between the defended ego and its scarcity-driven-self-combustion-engine and the transformative Self-sustaining-fusion-reactor of the ‘Will to Love’ wit

SUM, ERGO DILIGO “I AM, Therefore I Love” “Je suis, donc j’aime.” The Human Condition and the '10 Cs': From Chaos, Conflict, Confusion, and Conceit; Via the ‘Council of Disciplines’; To Consciousness and Clarity; With Carl Jung, Christ, Compassion, and the ‘Will to Love’ This four-part series of articles is an entire ebook. It is free. It is here, along with all of my free eBooks that I have written for you: 'The Odyssey of The Psyche' This article traces the ‘10 Cs’ as one

The Human Condition and the '10 Cs': From Chaos, Conflict, Confusion, and Conceit; Via the ‘Council of Disciplines’; To Consciousness and Clarity; With Carl Jung, Christ, Compassion, and the ‘Will to Love.’ This four-part series of articles is an entire ebook. It is free. It is here, along with all of my free eBooks that I have written for you: 'The Odyssey of The Psyche' This article traces the ‘10 Cs’ as one continuous movement: From the outward theatre that is the prison

The Human Condition and the '10 Cs': From Chaos, Conflict, Confusion, and Conceit; Via the ‘Council of Disciplines’; To Consciousness and Clarity; With Carl Jung, Christ, Compassion, and the ‘Will to Love’ Before the Council starts arguing about maps, let the whole route flash up once. This opening film is not an answer in advance; it is the architectural glimpse that tells the reader why the quarrel between disciplines matters at all. The 'Council of Disciplines' & The '10 C

The Human Condition and the '10 Cs': From Chaos, Conflict, Confusion, and Conceit; Via the ‘Council of Disciplines’; To Consciousness and Clarity; With Carl Jung, Christ, Compassion, and the ‘Will to Love’ The famously pessimistic German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer wrote that: “There is not much to be got anywhere in the world. It is filled with misery and pain; and if a man escapes these, boredom lies in wait for him at every corner.” The prominent German-American social

'Success' is not a mistake: It is an incomplete journey. Success may take you as far as it can take you, but success can only take you so far. But you are not a hitch-hiker being dumped off by the 'driver' of success. Fuck! Far from it. You are not a passenger. You are an ace pilot, a veritable top gun. As the poet William Ernest Henley wrote in the stunning poem 'Invictus': "I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my Soul." That's you. But success is a 'dealer', a dr

Part I: The Psyche, Artificial Intelligence, Grammar, Truth, and Love “What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written.” (Jacques Derrida) Introduction We have gone outward with astonishing confidence and technological prowess and only taken a few steps inward at best. Our journey into our minds and our psyche has barely begun. We have crossed oceans, mapped continents, split the atom, walked on the moon, mapped the genome, and filled the skies with satellites,

'The Institutional Übermensch: The Ego-Scaling Matrix, Affective Fields, and Trauma-Organised Autopoiesis' We build institutions, law, medicine, academia, to find Truth and to heal, but structurally, these systems are actively failing, systematically generating Trauma instead of clarity. They are killing us. Sometimes quickly. Sometimes slowly. But the data is undeniable. Decades ago, J. Robert Oppenheimer observed after seeing his atomic bomb that: “In some sort of crude sen

A New Grammar For Triangulating The Ego: A Triptych Catechism For the Psychospiritual Journey to Unconditional Well-being – Introducing Emotional Sobriety, De-Identifying From the Ego, Fear, Trauma Bonding, and Codependency Introduction Hello. Welcome back to the series of articles on 'The Human Condition and How to Heal It'. I invite you to take your 'Seat'. Or rather, may I remind you to stop leaving it. You are being distracted by the objects of your focussed consciousness

For Part I of this second article in my series 'The Human Condition and How To Heal It click here. "You Are That" Kristin Neff, the pioneering researcher, author, and Professor of Educational Psychology, widely recognised for defining and measuring the field of self-compassion over two decades, wrote: “Our successes and failures come and go—they neither define us nor do they determine our worthiness.” In her influential book ‘Self-compassion’, Neff emphasises that self-compa

This is Part I of the second article in my series 'The Human Condition and How To Heal It'. Click here for Part II. Introduction Dr Gabor Maté, the world-famous Canadian doyen of all things childhood Trauma, attachment versus authenticity, mental illness, and addiction writes: “We can begin to live the Truth of who we are, rather than the story of who we were taught to be.” The next time I get a kitten, I am naming it Gabor. Everyone needs a Gabor in their lives. William

This article is the first in a series of articles, a 'thesis' if you like. It is the culmination of hundreds of hours of research: But also a lived experience and a journey into awareness, distilled in my service to you. Let's dive in with no more ado shall we? Series Introduction: A Map Out of The Human Condition "I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become." Carl Gustav Jung Contents · What is the Human Condition? · What Has This Got to Do With You