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Ep. 46 - The DARVO Pattern: When the Person Who Hurt You Makes Themselves the Victim (opens the original)
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The DARVO Pattern: When the Person Who Hurt You Makes Themselves the Victim Dr. George Vergolias introduces The Unstressed Exec and explains DARVO, a manipulation pattern coined by psychologist Jennifer Freyd that stands for Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim and Offender, describing how it shifts accountability so the harmed person becomes the problem. He breaks down each stage with examples, explains why DARVO works by exploiting empathy, moral identity threat, and social uncertainty, and cites
Ep. 45: The Human in the Age of AI: Part 3 of 3 (opens the original)
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The Human Edge in the Age of AI: Leadership Capacities Machines Can’t Replace Dr. George Vergolias introduces The Unstressed Exec and closes a three-part series, “The Human in the Age of AI,” outlining five irreplaceably human leadership capacities: genuine trust building, adaptive judgment amid ambiguity and competing values, presence under pressure through nervous system regulation, creative synthesis that produces genuine novelty, and relational repair through real accountability and reconnec
Ep. 44: The Human in the Age of AI (Part 2 of 3) - AI in the Therapy Room: Promise, Peril, and the Ethics of Digital Mental Health (opens the original)
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Dr. George Vergolias introduces part two of his three-part series “The Human in the Age of AI,” examining what happens when therapy is partly delivered by algorithms. He outlines the current use of AI in mental health from low-risk administrative support (transcription, summaries, risk-language flags) to adjunctive tools (CBT exercises, mindfulness, psychoeducation, mood tracking) and, more controversially, AI positioned as a primary provider via chatbots and companion apps. He reviews mixed res
Ep. 43 - The Human in the Age of AI (Part 1): What AI Can’t Replace - Empathy, Attunement, and Real Connection (opens the original)
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Dr. George Vergolias introduces The Unstressed Exec and begins a three-part series, “The Human and the Age of AI,” framing AI as a human psychology story rather than a technology debate. In Part 1, he argues AI can convincingly mimic empathy through pattern recognition but lacks interior experience, true attunement between nervous systems, genuine reciprocity, and relational continuity. He outlines irreplaceable elements of human connection - co-regulation, mutual vulnerability, embodied presenc
Ep. 42 - Allostatic Load: What Your Body Is Keeping Score Of - and How to Stop the Damage (opens the original)
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Dr. George Vergolias introduces The Unstressed Exec and explains allostatic load as the cumulative biological wear-and-tear from chronic stress when the allostatic (stress) response is activated more than it is shut off. He details how sustained cortisol and adrenaline affect the brain (hippocampal suppression, amygdala hyperactivation, impaired prefrontal cortex function), cardiovascular health (inflammation, hypertension, atherosclerosis), immune dysregulation and inflammation, sleep disruptio
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