McDonald's McDLT commercial from 1985

“I just had some ideas that I’ve been thinking about for quite a while, about—modulation. It seems to me that there are different things in life, and one of my main jobs is to help, through the mass media, for children, to help children through some of the difficult modulations

🧵When I was a new mom, I was anxious about all of it:

Will I succeed at breastfeeding? Is it obsessive of me to even care? Are other mothers *this* affected by sleep deprivation? Am I going back to work too soon?

Sometimes when my infant would have her fits of crying, that

The triste alegría of parenthood. Happy maternal function day.

Why are researchers still studying brief manualized treatments over and over?

In the aggregate, they are weak tea. Effective but not much. How much more confirmation do we need?

Exactly what James Naismith had in mind

JP 🍩🏀 But too many therapists were never trained to understand their patients and are not even trying to. They have a preset menu of “tools” and “interventions” that they apply to everyone. Seen it too many times (and it’s also on regular display here on social media)

A man goes to see a sculptor’s work. He likes an intricate piece and asks how much it is. “$1,000” says the sculptor. The man looks around and sees a large cube of marble, untouched. “How much is that one?” “$10,000.” “What?! The other one is so detailed, took so much work.

Interviewer: If you hadn’t been a therapist, what would you have been and why?

Casement: “I don’t think I can imagine what else I might have done. I had to follow where my own evolution took me: I just could not have done otherwise if I were still to remain true to myself.”

“for oneself, rather than being seen as a job that one might do.”

Casement (2016): “I think that there are too many people wanting to practice as therapists…and I think they are a pretty mixed bunch. I also think there needs to be a fuller sense of vocation, preferably growing out of a recognized need for therapeutic help

Casement: “I could never be angry with [his first therapist]. She needed, for her own reasons, to be appreciated, needed to be thought well of so that her need was blocking off whatever, in me, needed to come into the work with her.”

Helene Deutsch (1942), in her seminal paper on the 'as if' personality, which later became known as #borderline personality disorder #BPD .