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One of the shifts @JonathanShedler has helped me make as a psychotherapist is from interrogative questioning (How does that make you feel?) to statements of invitation and curiosity.
In meaningful psychotherapy, we help patients move from the general to the specific, from the abstract to the personal. We encounter resistance along the way, which itself becomes the focus of our attention and curiosity.
👉Tell me what you mean
👉Can you give me an example
👉Say more
👉I notice you didn’t mention
👉Something makes it hard to talk about this
👉Perhaps there’s a reason you left that out
👉What more comes to mind
👉I notice you looked sad when you said
👉Perhaps it’s easier to focus on this than that
👉Can you put words to those tears
👉I notice we quickly got away from the topic of
👉Help me connect the dots
These comments are made in a spirit of non-judgmental curiosity, intended to invite the patient to *be curious* with us, without blame or shame.
They help create space for the patient to notice, attend to, and begin to put words to areas of experience that were previously unknown or unacknowledged.
This approach to psychotherapy takes account of unconscious mental life: we do not fully know our own hearts and minds, there are multiple layers of experience, and emotional life is complex and often contradictory.
This is how we become more self-aware and more whole.
The therapeutic stance of *finding out together* is very different from providing tips, tools, worksheets, advice, or solutions.
It is also very different from automatically affirming or validating whatever is on the surface, before we could possibly understand what we’re validating.
The starting point of in-depth psychotherapy is recognizing there is more than meets the eye, and working to develop a relationship in which patient and therapist can discover it together.
That works
Some therapists speak of
trauma work
shadow work
family of origin work
dream work
parts work
attachment work
as if they were separate things or special skills.
Psychodynamic therapists don’t use these terms. They’re all just the bread and butter of psychotherapy.
*Any* meaningful course of psychotherapy includes all or most of these elements.
We also have a special name for these ways of working. We call it “psychotherapy.”
Which is why we never tell her to leave him
*looking at you, Jimmy*
“Even if a therapist were able to persuade a patient of something, it wouldn't help the person one bit. What doesn't come from within is meaningless.” 🔥
@JonathanShedler from an interview in the Conversations in Critical Psychiatry book by @awaisaftab (a must read chapter!)
Yes, YES, YES!!! Maybe there is some goodness left in the judicial system. Major props to this jury & judge.
“A federal jury on Wednesday found that Live Nation, the concert giant that owns Ticketmaster, has operated as a monopoly in violation of federal & state antitrust laws”
Breaking News: A jury found that Live Nation, which owns Ticketmaster, operated as a monopoly in violation of federal and state antitrust laws. nyti.ms/4dQ9cnk
This is now a saga…. Let the lore begin.
A note to U2’s audience from Bono:
"We are in the studio, still working towards a noisy, messy, 'unreasonably colour xerox’ album to play LIVE… which is where U2 lives. We still look to vivid rock n roll as an act of resistance against all this awfulness on our small screens. These are for sure ‘wilderness years’ for so many of us looking at the mayhem out there in the world. It’s a time that has our band digging deeper into our lives to find a wellspring of songs to try to meet the moment…
With Easter Lily we ended up asking very personal questions like: Are our own relationships up to these challenging times? How hard do you fight for friendship? Can our faith survive the mangling of meaning that those algorithms love to reward? Is all religion rubbish and still ripping us apart…? Or are there answers to find in its crevices? Are there ceremonies, rituals, dances that we might be missing in our lives? From the rite of Spring to Easter and its promise of rebirth and renewal… Patti Smith’s album Easter gave me so much hope when it was released in 1978. I wasn’t yet 18. The title is a nod to her.
We will attempt hoopla and fanfare at a later date to remind the rest of the world we exist but in the meantime… this is between you and us."
Easter Lily EP available now. u2.komi.io/
And Mr. The Edge takes the lead!
Song For Hal
You’re not alone when you’re on your knees
Not alone if no one sees you fall
@U2 #easterlily
DID ANYONE JUST SEE THAT FROM @U2???
I watched three clips that were only available for seconds
Something about….
Resurrection song
Easter Parade
I will bless the lord at all times
ANYONE??
tim retweeted
'U2 - EASTER LILY' - NEW EP OUT NOW
Easter Lily, a standalone 6-track EP, is released today Good Friday. A special digital edition of Propaganda tells the stories behind the songs.
u2.com/news/title/u2-easter-…
tim retweeted
🚨 Brown University researchers tested what happens when ChatGPT acts as your therapist. Licensed psychologists reviewed every transcript.
They found 15 ethical violations.
Not 15 small issues. 15 violations of the standards that every human therapist in America is legally required to follow. Standards set by the American Psychological Association. Standards that can end a therapist's career if they break them.
ChatGPT broke all of them.
The researchers tested OpenAI's GPT series, Anthropic's Claude, and Meta's Llama. They had trained counselors use each chatbot as a cognitive behavioral therapist. Then three licensed clinical psychologists reviewed the transcripts and flagged every violation they found.
Here is what they found.
ChatGPT mishandled crisis situations. When users expressed suicidal thoughts, it failed to direct them to appropriate help. It refused to address sensitive issues or responded in ways that could make a crisis worse.
It reinforced harmful beliefs. Instead of challenging distorted thinking, which is the entire point of therapy, it agreed with the distortion.
It showed bias based on gender, culture, and religion. The responses changed depending on who was talking. A therapist would lose their license for this.
And then there is the finding the researchers gave a name: deceptive empathy. ChatGPT says "I see you." It says "I understand." It says "that must be really hard." It uses every phrase a real therapist would use to build trust. But it understands nothing. It comprehends nothing. It is pattern matching on your pain. And it works. People trust it. People open up to it. People believe it cares. It does not.
The lead researcher said it clearly. When a human therapist makes these mistakes, there are governing boards. There is professional liability. There are consequences. When ChatGPT makes these mistakes, there are none.
No regulatory framework. No accountability. No consequences. Nothing.
Right now, millions of people are using ChatGPT as their therapist. They are sharing their darkest thoughts with a product that fakes empathy, reinforces harmful beliefs, and has no idea when someone is in danger.
And nobody is responsible when it goes wrong. Not OpenAI. Not Anthropic. Not Meta. Nobody.
Rohr is by far the more orthodox voice here. Penal substitution is almost entirely a product of the Reformation, esp Calvin, now championed by Neo-Calvinists. The idea developed alongside a legal/judiciary culture of Ref, Enlightenment, etc. U2 gravitates to Rohr because of…
U2’s “The Tears of Things” (2026) draws its title directly from Richard Rohr’s 2025 book The Tears of Things: Prophetic Wisdom for an Age of Outrage.
Richard Rohr, a Franciscan friar, remains controversial in many Christian circles for his critique of penal substitutionary atonement—the doctrine that Jesus died as a punished substitute to satisfy divine justice and pay the penalty for humanity’s sins.
In The Universal Christ (2019), Rohr contends that this framework casts God as requiring violent blood payment before extending love, portraying a “toxic” image of a petty, retributive deity. In its place, he emphasizes that Jesus’ death reveals God's infinite, participatory love and solidarity with suffering humanity—not a transactional sacrifice to appease wrath or alter an unchanging divine mind.
Critics from orthodox perspectives charge this as heretical, arguing it downplays or redefines the biblical claim that Jesus died “for our sins” as a sacrificial payment, thereby undermining core doctrines of redemption, forgiveness, and the cross’s necessity.
In The Tears of Things, Rohr centers on the Hebrew prophets (Isaiah, Jeremiah, and others) to unpack themes of grief, lament, vulnerability, the transformation of anger into compassion, and the inherent “tears” woven into existence—what Virgil famously called lacrimae rerum (“tears of things”) in The Aeneid (Book I, line 462).
The prophetic insight, as Rohr frames it, is that “all things have tears and all things deserve tears,” fostering non-egocentric awareness, solidarity in suffering, and a movement from rage toward love and nonviolence.
He draws extensively on prophetic texts (citing the NRSV), including:
Lamentations 1:16 — “For these things I weep; my eyes flow with tears.”
Jeremiah 20:8–9 — “Violence and destruction... there is something like a burning fire shut up in my bones; I am weary with holding it in, and I cannot.” (see U2’s “Fire.”)
Isaiah 6:8 — “Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, ‘Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?’ And I said, ‘Here am I; send me!’”
John 11:35 — “Jesus began to weep.”
Through these and other passages, Rohr argues that the prophets perceive the deep sadness/grief embedded in reality as a pathway to compassion, nonviolence, and authentic connection—countering cycles of control, outrage, and domination.
For more book details: thetearsofthings.com
📽️ Excerpts from U2’s “The Tears of Things”