Alison Crosthwait

John S., Don, DeMarlo, Pete, David, Mark, Carlos, Lou, Hunter, Sam, Graham, Alex, Luis, John L.: Session Notes From the World's Therapist - October 30, 2025 Daily serialized fiction

Go Jays!!

Does ChatGPT Have an Unconscious? Notes from a former psychoanalytic therapist on why ChatGPT is not a trustworthy therapist

Everything mentioned above: lies, obfuscation, hype, lack of compassion, climate cost… is the soil from which ChatGPT is springing.

It should make us extremely wary of the extent to which we trust what he tells us.

Writing can be lonely. I'm gathering a group together for a month. Ping me if you're drawn - would love to have you.

Sam, Adelita, Justin: Session Notes From the World's Therapist - October 14, 2025 Daily serialized fiction

What might a therapist say? I'm writing fiction and playing at responding....

Session Notes From the World's Therapist - October 15, 2025 Daily serialized fiction

Today's clients: Donald, Maria, Taylor & Travis, Mike

Sex While Rome Falls: A Case For Yes! Yes! Yes! Do you want to write together?

"I have a fantasy: five days. I want five days away with someone to focus on our emotional and sexual connection. Where the connection came first - not sight seeing, not visiting friends, not activities - but intimacy. Environment, food, time, centered around our connection in those five days."

Rocks-for-Computing Valley I went searching for a little hope in Silicon Valley and I found it

I'm renaming Silicon Valley to give the whole thing a bit more levity. Isn't silicon amazing? The cousin of life on earth.

As Within, So Without: The Politics of Projection and a Prayer Listen to my daily pieces on the go: The Aliveness Podcast

We become helpless children angry at the mere existence of Mom and Dad and their power. Everything that didn’t go right for us from the start gets projected onto those in power as if they were indeed our parents.

Platform by Platform: A soul-based tech audit How I decided where to speak and what to leave behind

This was fun to do and also wildly sobering. The question of how to connect on rented platforms are real.

No Man Can Save Her: Taylor Swift and the Fate of Ophelia She's in her marriage era

"Moving beyond this fate has nothing to do with the right man coming along (as Taylor’s album suggests) and everything to do with the alchemy at the heart of what looks like madness but is also intergenerational heartbreak, survival fear, and trauma."

The Jewel and the Web: Moving Past Left and Right On Polarization, Discomfort, and Finding Our Shared Light

"Left and right are simply concepts. Groups of ideas. The complexity of human values cannot be confined to this polarization."

When Money Fails, Who Stays Standing The nervous system as the ground of power

"The most important thing we can all do for our world right now is to gain the power (the feeling of safety in being ourselves) that comes through nervous system capacity."

So excited to see this announcement!! Thank you both for your service.