I originally began researching cultural anthropology, drawn to how other cultures structure their realities — reality structures distinct from my own — particularly in the work of Eduardo Viveiros de Castro and Eduardo Kohn.

That led me into philosophy, as a way of understanding my place in the world and building a conceptual vocabulary for what the hell was going on out here. I graduated from St. John's College.

Philosophy began to blend with psychology and psychoanalysis at Pacifica, where I started studying Lacanian psychoanalysis with Dr. Samuel McCormick. Lacanian work puts a premium on the patient's exploration of their unconscious, and on our ability, as analysts, to interrupt it, echo it, and shepherd it.

My doctoral research, Cyber-Psychosis: On the Technological Structuring of Subjectivity Through the Hikikomori Figure, sits at the intersection of Lacanian psychoanalysis, Deleuze and Guattari's schizoanalysis, and Simondon's philosophy of technics — using these frameworks to begin conceptualizing the hikikomori figure.

My interest in the phenomenon was mostly selfish, if I'm honest. I hadn't read anything on hikikomori that felt sophisticated enough to help me articulate, symbolize, or recognize my own symptom — and years of my life were marked by severe isolation. Now I work with isolation, depression and adjacent presentations, contributing to the literature and pushing toward a different clinical understanding of severe withdrawal.

I'm currently working on two books. The first draws on my dissertation research to explore extreme withdrawal and what I call cyber-psychosis. The second, tentatively titled Libidinal Cartographies, is for people interested in deep self-analytic work — devoted to mapping one's unconscious libidinal economy.