Powerful, powerful article on negotiating reality as a psychotherapist in the digital world. everydayanalysis.co.uk/post/the-thera…

body still getting the score wrong: josepheverettwil.substack.com/p/the-body-kee…

When a therapist dies suddenly, what is left behind? nytimes.com/2025/07/24/hea…

Just blurted out an abject apology to one of my plants after accidentally tearing off a healthy bit while trying to pluck the dead leaves. Surely this is normal behavior and not the advent of King Charles Syndrome?

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Struggling to choose between money and pleasure? Start a PhD and reject both

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Nina Coltart’s classics return: "How to Survive as a Psychotherapist" (with new foreword & updates) + "The Baby and the Bathwater (with new intro). Plus her landmark 1982 paper". 🛒 Special bundle offer: bit.ly/4mJboyr

I've lost count of the number of times I've quoted this to people who view him as dogmatic or fanatic in defending psychoanalysis exclusively.

My father & aunt both underwent traditional psychoanalysis from the ‘50s -‘70s, considered suitable for their history of childhood trauma. Nice to come across our friend ⁦Jonathan Shedler⁩ in this article. Not your great-grandfather's psychoanalysis apa.org/monitor/2017/1…

It never ceases to amaze me how easily particular events of violence help us connect NOT to the actual event, but our own sadism and desire to destroy. Our inner world is filled with sadistic phantasy & we seek moments and spaces to externalize it with a rational justification.

Professors don't have the mind-control indoctrination superpowers some folks seem to think we do. We can't even get students to read the syllabus.

I started reading his *Nazi Doctors* in the late 90s & then other books. His thoughts on totalized thinking would be so helpful to me in several contexts. His memoirs are a searing read and I've recommended those and his other books to students for many years. Eternal memory!

Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality. ~Theodor Adorno (1903-1969)

Here's a brief piece on how psychoanalysis works, what it is, and so on. Psychology Today The paradox is that change comes not from advice but from the relationship and process—the trials and tribulations, ruptures and repairs, shared discoveries and wins. Within the safety of the

An encomium for the late Jonathan Lear, and thoughts on his books and those of others, including Laplanche on Freud and sex, Bion on psychosis, and Todd McGowan on Hegel and alienation--and many others! booksinpsychotherapy.blogspot.com/2025/10/an-enc…

I mean I guess that's a sackable offense? "Her parents fired the nurse...for...in order to finance her addiction to opium...she would prostitute herself at an establishment where she would leave baby Françoise's pram unattended at the door." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A…

Guilford made BiteSize Therapy recent paper on psychoanalytic language available for free! Check it out at: guilfordjournals.com/doi/epdf/10.15…

"The psychoanalytic community must urgently seize every opportunity to communicate with the public in a more engaging manner..." BiteSize Therapy embodies this completely! Thanks for writing about the value of holding the door open for others. guilfordjournals.com/doi/epdf/10.15…

"We need to notice that many of the best things in our lives, about our lives, begin as resistances....Our resistance is central to our singularity....Resistance is the one thing we should not resist." Adam Phillips, "On Resistance," LRB, 14 August 2025.