Changelog
What has changed.
An honest, dated log of meaningful changes to The Unseen Mind — new material, new sections, corrections, and the occasional policy shift. Newest first.
For a smaller-grain view, every long-form page carries its own last reviewed date and correction notes at its foot. This page collects the changes a returning reader is most likely to care about.
A wider cluster, two new research-tracker posts, and small reader-driven fixes
The cornerstone guide now acknowledges that aphantasia and SDAM frequently travel alongside three less-discussed cousins: anauralia (no auditory imagery), anendophasia (no inner speech), and alexithymia (difficulty identifying or labelling emotions in the moment). All three have new or expanded glossary entries, and the for-clinicians page has gained a single non-leading question to elicit any of them at intake.
The research tracker has gained two posts. Mawtus and colleagues’ 2024 mixed-methods study in Collabra: Psychology is the first peer-reviewed evidence that aphantasic patients present without imagery-shaped symptoms across most psychiatric disorders, and that imagery-based therapy techniques are reported as ineffective. Nedergaard and Lupyan’s 2024 paper in Psychological Science gives the absence of inner speech a name — anendophasia — and shows it has measurable but selective behavioural consequences.
A small fix on the back of feedback in the launch threads: the resources page now links directly to the VVIQ and SAM questionnaires it was already mentioning, and adds Sassy Smith’s Unseen Minds — the only book-length practitioner guide to therapy adaptation currently in print — to the books list.
The cornerstone guide is now written from inside
The guide’s sections on what aphantasia and SDAM are like to live with, and on what the people around someone with either condition should understand, have moved from placeholders to finished writing in Dan Kearney’s own voice. The about page now carries a founder note by him in place of the earlier placeholder. The site’s core reading material is complete.
Support page added
Readers who want to help cover the site’s running costs can now do so via a one-off or small recurring contribution, linked from the new support page. Nothing else changes: there is no advertising, no sponsored content, and no supporter-only material, and every word stays free for every reader regardless of whether they contribute.
The site opens
The Unseen Mind went live today, with the cornerstone guide, a glossary, a monthly research tracker, and four audience-specific pages — for the newly diagnosed, for people who suspect they may be, for family and partners, and for UK clinicians and educators. A monthly newsletter is in place; a UK-focused community forum will follow later in 2026.
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