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"In adjusting to the mad whole the cured patient becomes really sick—which is not to imply that the uncured are any healthier." Adorno
I have to say, the longer I spend in the trenches of community mental health where just simply being with the client in their pain goes such a long way, the less concerned I am with all of the little squabbles on here between various therapists
I have much less zeal about “real” therapy or even defending some kind of authentic psychoanalytic approach, and honestly I’m not even sure what that means anymore
Every time I post a tweet on here there’s a little voice in my head that says “what’s the point” and then I delete it
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the people yearn for grad school
a “gym for your mind” will be the next breakout product / movement
everyone reaches this conclusion after their ai honeymoon phase. yes you got the result you wanted—work done, app built, revenues up—but not the *feeling* of doing great work aka mastery
idk what shape this takes: 3blue1brown-as-a-service? write for 30 min every morning? do we all take up knitting?
but something has to change!
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if you mistake symptoms for the problem you will also mistake symptom management for the solution
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A secret about academics is they don't really read books. They read parts, pretend they read it all. Historians excel at this. I'm compelled to complete them, even if it's not useful. Yet, I feel shame when I don't read an entire book. Dumb. Read what's useful is a good motto.
They still have this and if you go to grad school in the humanities you get to do it even more
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It’s tough to sit with but thus far the ugliest shit I’ve seen in this field isn’t from patients—and I’ve worked with some tough populations—it’s from other psychotherapists. Not sure if it’s the higher expectations I have of us, or just the reverb from what happens to us when we
















