Paul Hoard is a professional counselor, clinical supervisor, and core faculty associate professor of counseling psychology at The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology. He has published and spoken internationally on topics related to eucontamination, psychoanalytic theory, perpetration-induced traumatic stress, white body supremacy, and sexual trauma. He has taught, lived, and provided mental health counseling in the United States and abroad.
I am grateful for the opportunity to interact with Esther Meek’s thoughts around the significance of the other and the real, all of which are a gift to the school. In her essay, she invites us to consider the importance of the early “face-to-face encounter” between the mother and child, and she highlights the philosophical […]
Over the past couple of decades, the board game industry has exploded. Game-related stores, cafes, bars, and conventions have been popping up all over the world, and the game industry produced about $18 billion in revenue for 2022, a number that is expected to steadily rise.[1] Although this growth can be analyzed from many different […]
In Freud’s Last Session, a film adaptation of a play that is itself based on a book, the great thinkers Sigmund Freud and C. S. Lewis verbally spar about the nature and existence of God, yet the film is almost uninterested in deciding which of them is right.[1] Their disagreement over the existence of God […]
Nobody shows up in the world with a fully formed understanding of what it means to be human. Instead, we are born into a community that trains its members, forming each within a particular tradition. This instruction happens iteratively through the repeated imposition of habits and stories that shape the way members of the community […]
Her eyes filled with terror at the sight of me, and she sped out of that South Carolina parking lot, tires screeching. I stood there holding my jumper cables and feeling confused, shocked, and ashamed. I’d forgotten to turn off the headlights on my old Honda. and my car battery was dead. I thought I […]
The Hoard siblings reflect on their story of eucontaminating queerness.
The Hoard brothers connect dog poop and sanctification.
