El discurso capitalista dicta que -todo es posible- y si no es posible, tú eres el culpable. Convirtiendo el -no posible- en culposo, persecutorio, castigador.
1/ A therapist dispensing advice outside the context of a professional therapy relationship & treatment “frame” is just another person giving advice. It may be good advice or bad, helpful or unhelpful, followed or ignored. But it has nothing to do with psychotherapy. Skilled
“However much the analyst may be tempted to become a teacher, model, or ideal, he should not forget that this is not his task in the analytic relationship.
If he does, he will only be repeating a mistake of the parents who crushed their child’s independence by ...
If you lock your mind around the idea that your depression has no meaningful relationship to the kind of life you're enduring, you’ll lock out the idea that your lived experience is in anyway relevant to why you’re in emotional pain; foreclosing enquiry into what needs to change.
As Kierkegaard said: “As the world changes, the forms of corruption also gradually become more cunning, more difficult to point out.” In its deep corruption of psychopharmacology, the pharmaceutical industry has borne this out.👇
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❌Therapist: “This is a safe space”
✅ Therapist: “We just met. Of course you’re concerned about whether to trust me w something so personal”
✅ Therapist: “Help me understand what might make you feel more comfortable or less comfortable talking to me”
Bullshit vs authenticity
People don't go to psychotherapy because they want to do better than a control group. They go because they want to get well
But therapy researchers always get away with the same sleight-of-hand
The clinically and scientifically relevant question is, "Do people get well?"
The
“Manualized treatment is not empirically supported as more effective than nonmanualized treatment. While manual‐based treatment may be attractive as a research tool, it should not be promoted as being superior to nonmanualized psychotherapy for clinical practice”
Siguiendo a Mark Fisher, el capitalismo no solo organiza la economía, también organiza la forma en que vivimos el sufrimiento. Y detenernos a pensarlo es fundamental. Porque no se trata solo de qué hacemos con el malestar, sino de cómo ese malestar está moldeado por un sistema
El dolor no siempre busca cura, a veces solo necesita un lugar.
No todo dolor es patológico. No toda tristeza es depresión.
Se nos exige continuidad, ánimo, rendimiento. Pero el dolor interrumpe.
Y en esa interrupción, hay verdad.
Darle lugar al dolor también es resistir la
El Yo es efecto de una imagen idealizada, una construcción alienada, tejida de identificaciones. Se cree uno, pero está dividido. Se cree dueño, pero no manda. En ese malentendido, habita su engaño y su frustración.
Para el psicoanálisis, el deseo no es algo que se “tiene” ni un objeto que se alcanza. Es una falta estructural, un movimiento que se sostiene precisamente porque no se colma.
El deseo nace del inconsciente y está atravesado por el Otro: por el lenguaje, por la mirada, por la