“We refused most emphatically to turn a patient who puts himself into our hands in search of help into our private property, to decide his fate for him, to force our own ideals upon him, and with the pride of a Creator to form him in our own image & see that it is good.” —S Freud

Freud was right about Jung when he said, “But one who while behaving abnormally keeps shouting that he is normal gives ground for the suspicion that he lacks insight into his illness. Accordingly, I propose that we abandon our personal relations entirely.”

Aella lies to men about women to relieve their guilt about doing bad things: paying for sex, using porn, treating women as disposible non-humans, etc. She does this because it makes her money. She is an unethical person. The only reason men think she's an special intellectual is

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For anyone just getting into feminism, remember that very few people can tolerate it, let alone actually like it, not on the right, or on the left. You might think I’m exaggerating, but if you do, then you’ll probably have to learn this the hard way, as many have done before you.

Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman ⛵ The resistance you can encounter, however, with even the most banal statements of ideas, can be quite severe. And with anything more theoretically complex, this just increases. Like psychoanalysis, really, except more so.

Real psychotherapy is an ongoing personal relationship and cannot “scale” Real psychotherapy is therefore of no interest to private equity & tech They can *call* it therapy... but if you’re getting something delivered at scale, you can be sure you’re not getting psychotherapy

If you've been on the receiving end of an interpretation that shattered you emotionally like a sledgehammer hitting a block of ice, you'd be careful about casually throwing them around yourself

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Psychoanalytic stand up comedy is sadly too niche so some of us must have day jobs as psychoanalytic psychotherapists, or whatever.

Wow. So much of the essence of psychodynamic psychotherapy condensed into a paragraph. Narcissism By Neville Symington

I think every suicidal/former suicidal person has a story like this. For me, it was a person I went to uni with making a deal with me that in moments of immense turmoil to, right then and there, I was to play 'Mambo No. 5' at full volume - it worked. I still do it.

The idea that antipsychotics do not provide clinically meaningful benefits in acute treatment of psychosis is so disconnected from scientific & clinical evidence that I consider contorted arguments for it as a proxy for one’s ability to engage in supercharged confirmation bias.

Normal person: “What do you do?” Academic psychologists: “I’m a psychologist.” Normal person: “Wow. That’s really interesting. You must know a lot about people, huh?” Academic psychologists: “Not much at all, actually.”

“abolish capitalism!” cool. who grows the food??? no seriously—who’s out there at dawn breaking their back in the dirt, fixing broken irrigation lines, replacing a tractor axle in 110° heat—for free? because you think profit is mean? who mines the lithium for your laptop, the

Please stop assuming that too many em dashes means AI written. Some of us are producing grammatically incoherent work the honest way!

I feel strongly that PTV ticket inspectors should focus on fining those who feel it's acceptable to loudly blast music from a portable speaker on public transport #ptv

Future therapists may ask how do you not “take home” emotions and situations from your patients. I used to say “work through your countertransference” or “personal therapy”… Yet patients are often in my mind I can’t read, hear music, watch a movie without thinking of them.

As you work towards recovery OCD is going to make it feel like you are letting yourself off the hook.

Who up fucking they dinosaur park