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But in all of us there are some things which will never be within our reach; there is always a mystery at the heart of every person, and therefore in our job as analysts. — Nina Coltart Slouching Towards Bethlehem

youtube.com/watch?v=dGg0Go… wtf is a mental breakdown????? The first wtf is life podcast featuring Kemtrup Thank you 🙏

Reading about intersubjectivity with my friend Wendy

I love listening to Chiara (I can’t understand her Dutch podcast 🥲 so this is a real gift to us English-speaking bozos)

“…as Charles Brenner (2006) cogently pointed out, whatever a defense may be called, it is simply a way of saying ‘no’ or ‘not,’ a form of sequestration by dissociation or denial... I refuse to know it; I refuse to see it; it's not me, it's you; I refuse to recognize this part…”

“We love in a particular way in each relationship, and so we lose and grieve for that particular person and what it means for us to go on in life without them. What we lose, what we grieve and need to mourn, is highly specific, even while the experience of grief is… “

I believe there are ways in which we permit or preclude certain kinds of emotional contact with our patients, and that this is something that must be addressed explicitly, because this often defines the level of analytic work that will be possible. — Darlene Ehrenberg

"The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it."

Avgi Saketopoulou, The Risk of Analysis

Cleverness, à la familiarity w Psychoanalysis, can impress & earn some applause, but it's often just a mirage disguising a barren soul. If inward gazing becomes primarily a mental exercise/game, people get treated like game pieces. Couldn't be further from where we ought to land.

“Tired of coffee machines only weighing 7-10lbs?”

“By confronting and dealing with the realities of my person and our situation she could begin to work through her intolerance of frustration and disappointment about an imperfect world, and to grapple with her feelings about her sense of her own…”

No one quite predicted how fiercely miserable a strong conviction in the belief 'do what makes you happy' could make a nation.

come across a meme like this = punch yourself in the face

Really looking forward to this one (thanks for the rec Jayce Long)

A truly good therapist, even if not the brightest (tho you have to have some level of intellect to do the job) is going to be empathic, and knowledgeable of process enough to help someone who is really smart because it's not about the ideas pts have but what/how they experience

Get yourself a study group where you don't have to pretend to know anything.

Looking the #MetGala right in the eye.