Posts by Andrew B. Dodson, PhD

In The Triumph of the Therapeutic, Philip Rieff warned that modern psychology had not merely replaced theology but inverted it. “Religious man was born to be saved,” he wrote. “Psychological man is born to be pleased.” The shift was not trivial. It marked a civilizational pivot from a culture ordered by sacred authority to one…

1. The Fracture Beneath Every Fight Most couples show up in my office carrying different stories, but the x‑ray always reveals the same break. Somewhere along the line, he retreated and she grasped. Call it the abdication–control cycle. Left unchecked, it colonizes every conversation, budget, and bedroom until a marriage feels less like a covenant…