Psychoanalysis and Warriors. Tweeting as I read and learn. How do I hold all these psychoanalyses!?
Not at an institute.
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I’m noting keywords or ideas here for psychotherapy that are having greater meaning for me day by day. Will add more as I go. A lot is learning from @JonathanShedler and the community
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1/ I’m seeing more and more stuff like this, from therapy influencers/wannabe influencers with no training or knowledge. They really think they’re saying something new.
In fact, this was Freud’s theory in 1895—more than 125 year ago:
Emotions are trapped (repressed) in the nervous system (unconscious) and can be released (catharsis)
By 1900, Freud had abandoned this theory—because it was untenable, and not a sound basis for therapy. That was 125 years ago.
Nothing new under the sun. But we’re destined to repeatedly, endlessly turn down every blind alley/dead end, because Insta-therapists who never learned anything market themselves as “experts”… and people actually listen to them🤷🏻♂️
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“The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel.”
Psychotherapists, in my opinion, have an obligation to help patients find balance between learning to access/allow *feeling* without…..1/2
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A gross generalization, but made in service of an idea:
Many MD therapists I have spoken to went into therapy training with the idea of healing being difficult and expecting a healing psychotherapy relationship will be something difficult to become skilled at,
RT @JonathanShedler: I’ve taught psychiatry residents and psychology grad students both.
The culture in MD residencies is: You don’t know…
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One thing I did not mention (or did I? 🤔) was the levels of difficulty in training to be a psychoanalyst. Every single Candidate has my respect for just trying to complete a five-year program, my hats off to them for their sacrifice and love of analysis.
This is a short thread of what are some of the difficulties I’ve seen teaching Psychoanalytic Candidates. I can easily see many other Institutes and Centers that train Psychoanalysts experience this. My idea is to give a quick view of what Candidates go through.
#Psychoanalysis
Ok, wow, this is amazing. Thank you @jesusrglez for this, for it highlights what is demanded of us to be psychotherapists (some are downright disillusioning) and how much of it is lost nowadays as the field transitions further away from psychoanalytic way of working.
This is a short thread of what are some of the difficulties I’ve seen teaching Psychoanalytic Candidates. I can easily see many other Institutes and Centers that train Psychoanalysts experience this. My idea is to give a quick view of what Candidates go through.
#Psychoanalysis
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or even how much you know of the patient, it’s about being able to express the process of analysis to the patient in the correct moment, and thinking about what the patient needs and in what moment to present either an observation, a thought, an interpretation, or silence.
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that’s just beginning their own treatment and supervision. But that’s the way it is; they must endure. Here is the biggest obstacle: the need for the candidate to balance time, money, and most of all (in my view) what they’re experiencing in their analysis and supervision,
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This is a short thread of what are some of the difficulties I’ve seen teaching Psychoanalytic Candidates. I can easily see many other Institutes and Centers that train Psychoanalysts experience this. My idea is to give a quick view of what Candidates go through.
#Psychoanalysis
Mary Oliver -
“For it is precisely how I feel, who have inherited not measurable wealth but as we all do who care for it, that immeasurable fund of thoughts and ideas, from writers and thinkers long gone into the ground – and,
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“Thus the great ones (my great ones, who may not be the same as your great ones) have taught me – to observe with passion, to think with patience, to live always caringly.”
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