Psychologist, author, lecturer, professor in the Department of Counseling Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute. All tweets are tentative hypotheses.
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What distinguishes psychoanalysis from symptom-focused therapeutic approaches is that, rather than primarily seeking to eradicate the symptom, it aims to transform the subject’s relationship to it and investigate its place and function within the subject’s psychic economy.
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The American People summoned their moral constitution, repudiated Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans forever, and demanded moral leadership from their elected representatives, reclaiming for America the moral authority required to be the leader of the free world once again.
As a psychologist, the deeper question i like to ask is: what in particular do you do with your own darkness? – at Brighton, England
Psychodynamic psychotherapy is a real relationship with a real person. It is a boundaried attachment experience which the therapeutic contract demands we observe with excruciating honesty. It must happen between two sentient beings that are capable of emotions and especially shame. The therapists unique responsibility is to bring a reflective function to that relationship (whether the client has that reflective function or not), and that reflective function comes from learning to lovingly tolerate shame.
Nothing you can get from an AI will provide what I wrote above, although AI can help with other aspects of therapy such as frame-shifting, psychoeducation, and identifying cognitive distortions.
This is why I think AI will replace (already is replacing) therapies such as CBT and many other "evidence based" therapies, but it cannot replace psychodyhamic relational psychotherapy. – at Islington, London
The hidden motivation of depressive introjection is to continue to find a way to idealize,
and therefore love, the other. As is common among children who tend to blame
themselves for their parents’ divorce, the depressive calculus is that it is better to believe
that “this is all my fault” than to countenance the alternative, that love itself sometimes fails. In this
sense, depressive introjection serves a defensive value against abandonment anxiety, and
amounts to wishfully populating the world with idealized objects who can be trusted with
love. – at Islington, London
Where did i get all this trickster energy, and what do I do with it? – at Kensington, London
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People with history of trauma are like holes in the walls of the universe. They allow extraplanar possibilities to leak through. – at Kensington, London