Dr. Shawna Freshwater

07/21/2026

07/12/2026

This passage comes from the book “A Web of Sorrow: Mistrust, Jealousy, Lovelessness, Shamelessness, Regret, and Hopelessness” by Salman Akhtar (Karnac Books, 2017; also published under Routledge).

04/10/2026

An Operational Psychologist applies psychological science to support national security, national defense, military, intelligence, law enforcement, and public safety operations. This is a specialized, applied field (sometimes called “national security psychology”) focused on enhancing mission effectiveness, personnel performance, and decision-making in high-stakes, operational environments.

04/09/2026

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
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At Houston VA, a dedicated team of health care professionals, led by Dr. Darlene Makulski, is making remarkable strides in treating Veterans with TBI.

03/05/2026

Otto Kernberg explains Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) which is one of the Borderline Personality Organizations (BPO ~ 3 levels). Dr. Kernberg American psychoanalyst, professor of psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medicine, Personality Institute and the most-cited psychoanalyst in the world. His work helped shape how NPD is assessed and defined and treated.

08/14/2025

While you were posting, scrolling, and pretend living on Social Media, I spent my personal time on my ROC SUP

08/04/2025

Personality disorders:
Unmet interpersonal needs from the past lead individuals with personality disorder adaptations to be particularly reactive and responsive to interpersonal cues that seem to promise fulfillment of their unmet needs, arouse fears of being re-traumatized, or allow them to reenact their ingrained ways of defending against feeling their pain.

07/27/2025

THE SIGN OF GOOD DOCTORS IS HOW MANY PATIENTS THEY CAN GET OFF OF MEDICATIONS, NOT HOW MANY PEOPLE THEY PUT ON MEDICATIONS.