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June 2025

Systemic Betrayal
Social Determinants and Depression in Complex PTSD Survivors
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Robert Melanson
A Trauma-Informed Reframing of Morality
From Good and Evil to Eustress and Distress
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Robert Melanson
Reconsidering Freud's Seduction Theory
Trauma, Denial, and the Betrayal of Survivors in Psychoanalytic History
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Robert Melanson
Romanticizing Survival
The Cultural Cost of Misrepresenting Trauma
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Robert Melanson
Power Without Healing
How Co-opted Authority Reinforces Oppression
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Robert Melanson
Doug Ford and the Rise of Authoritarian Neoliberalism in Ontario
Executive Power as a Tool of Domination
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Robert Melanson
Pathologization, Invalidation and the Men’s Suicide Epidemic
Reclaiming the Context of Suffering
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Robert Melanson

May 2025

Performative Survival: the Silencing of Male Victimhood
Cultural Invalidation and the Male Suicide Crisis
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Robert Melanson
Commodified Intimacy and Disconnection
Neoliberal norms have fundamentally changed how individuals approach romantic relationships, leading to emotional disconnection and increased voluntary…
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Robert Melanson
Neoliberal Market Logic, the Collapse of Intimacy, and Embrace of Death
Autonomy without support is coercion. A choice made in the absence of care is not a free choice - it is a survival mechanism within a collapsing system.
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Robert Melanson
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