Are you ashamed of presenting yourself to the world? 23 April 2026 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Shame , No Comments Shame does not announce itself. It doesn’t arrive as a clear thought or labelled with a health warning. It dwells underground: buried in our unconscious, wrapped in denial, reinforced by silence and the […]
‘Kore’ – the void where there are no clues 20 April 2026 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , No Comments For thousands of years, Polynesian seafarers crossed the vast Pacific Ocean using astronomical navigation techniques handed down from their ancestors. The night sky was divided into 32 houses—the four cardinal points (north, […]
The silence of the lambs: silence as survival strategy 12 March 2026 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , No Comments When families encounter hardship, something curious often happens. Just like lambs before slaughter, they fall silent. Not always immediately. At first there may be noise—confusion, blame, or frantic attempts to fix things. […]
Tourette’s syndrome – a presentation of unconscious shame 7 December 2025 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Shame , 1 Comment Tourette’s Syndrome is a condition that the medical establishment has been unable to cure. I’ve recently had success treating it as a presentation of unconscious shame. Here I present my reasoning and results. What […]
How the collective unconscious rules humanity 14 July 2025 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Cornerstones , Generational trauma , No Comments Forget the Illuminati, the Bilderberg Group, and the 1%. Much as it seems like they do, they do not hold the reins of human destiny. Humanity’s true ruler is its own morass of […]
‘Mental health’ is a misleading term 27 June 2025 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , No Comments It’s June, and here in Britain another Mental Health Awareness Week has passed. In America, where everything is done on a larger scale, it lasts a whole month. A lot of digital column-inches have been […]
Vocal intonation – a secret giveaway of trauma 21 June 2025 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , No Comments In Character Analysis, Wilhelm Reich writes: “It is not what the patient says and does that is indicative of character resistance, but how he speaks and acts” (Reich’s italics). Here are three ways […]
Is heavy tattooing a sign of shame? 30 November 2023 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Shame , 1 Comment A few decades ago, tattooing used to be a mark of an outsider, someone who flaunted social conventions. Prison inmates used tattooed tears to indicate how many times they’d been inside. The closest thing to […]
Normal – the non-existent patriarchal standard 2 November 2023 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Patriarchy , 1 Comment When exploring feelings of unconscious shame and disgrace, it’s important to remember that these feelings always exist in response to judgment. Judgment, in its turn, is always against a standard. In our patriarchal society that standard […]
Disgrace – the deepest form of shame 1 November 2023 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Shame , No Comments For many years I’ve been excavating the unconscious—the place where, as Laura Knight-Jadczyk writes, “are found unfathomable depths of the rejected, the unacknowledged, the unrecognised, the unknown and undeveloped elements of our existence.” Through consistent […]