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“The experience of speaking from the heart and being taken seriously builds the psychic architecture that supports the capacity to bear life” —Nancy McWilliams

"The term displacement refers to the redirection of a drive, emotion, preoccupation, or behavior from its initial or natural object to another because its original direction is for some reason anxiety ridden." - Nancy McWilliams

1) AI can probably help some people feel better in the short term—and that’s not nothing. But symptom relief isn’t the same as healing. Offering suggestions or a listening ear to help manage stress and get through difficult periods is a good thing.

“They all suffer from a malignant form of alexithymia, all AI does.” - Max Kusovitsky youtu.be/IT_tGk4xt3I?si…

In psychotherapy that is genuinely transformative, there is a period when the patient may feel more lost than ever. They are relinquishing old ways of being and have not yet consolidated new ways We are changing life patterns. There is no path from Point A to Point B that does

"Analysts use the word identification to connote a mature level of deliberately, yet at least partly unconsciously, becoming like another person." - Nancy McWilliams

"By enacting frightening scenarios, the unconsciously anxious person turns passive into active, transforming a sense of helplessness and vulnerability into an experience of agency and power, no matter how negative the drama that is played out." - Nancy McWilliams

"People may sexualize any experience with the unconscious intention of converting terror or pain or other overwhelming sensation into excitement." - Nancy McWilliams

"It seems to me that the overarching theme among psychodynamic approaches to helping people is that the more honest we are with ourselves, the better our chances for living a satisfying and useful life." - Nancy McWilliams

"Moreover, a psychoanalytic sensibility appreciates the fact that honesty about our own motives does not come easily to us." - Nancy McWilliams

"Most fundamentally, psychoanalytic practitioners take seriously the evidence that the sources of most of our behaviors, feelings, and thoughts are not conscious." - Nancy McWilliams

"Falling in love is one of the few common experiences that makes most people aware of how remarkably lacking in control they are over the emotionally powerful situations in which they find themselves." - Nancy McWilliams