@boiby.bsky.social
Psychiatrist, writer. I write about attachment, health, trauma… University of Toronto Press. 🇨🇦 Away from the office, I post pictures of birds. https://linktr.ee/bobmaunder
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17.02.2026 18:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A sepia family portrait of faceless young people and the title “We are in the Details”
Learning the details of each others’ lives is the key to solidarity - more compassion, less stigma, less judgement - less we vs them.
17.02.2026 17:58 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
A sepia family portrait of faceless young people and the title “We are in the Details”
Learning the details of each others’ lives is the key to solidarity - more compassion, less stigma, less judgement - less we vs them.
17.02.2026 17:58 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Bird with red head and long orange beaks swims away from camera
Merganser enjoys milder weather on Lake Ontario 🪶
16.02.2026 00:57 — 👍 28 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0“Sea”
14.02.2026 21:24 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Water bird eating crustacean
Large see bird, White-winged Scoter, makes guest appearance on Lake Ontario 🪶
14.02.2026 20:41 — 👍 20 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0Close up 🪶
09.02.2026 00:27 — 👍 19 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Edie’s strength—the self-proclaimed worry wart who opposed her mad father when no one else would, worked without education, & managed her family through beer storms and the Depression—somehow matched malignant forces that were in motion long before she was born.
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Raptor soars with apartment building in background
Urban eagle. A juvenile bald eagle in the city🪶
08.02.2026 22:17 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hawk perched on branch, brightly lit by sun
Cooper’s Hawk today in Toronto. -17 but nice and sunny. 🪶
07.02.2026 20:17 — 👍 16 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Validation is not agreement, and it helps
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Two ducks of different size and colouration swimming on blue water on sunny day.
Hooded merganser thinks it is a goldeneye. This pair has been inseparable lately. 🪶
02.02.2026 23:59 — 👍 15 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Elijah didn’t drive alone. Charger was always in the shotgun seat beside him, and usually they were on their way to a park... Elijah would drive around, looking for good places for a dog to run and for a good place for him to jump.
Yalom's Spare Prescription
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Carmen's fourth specialist was useless to her. There was nothing that he could say that would carry weight; he gave that authority away with his brisk indifference to her experience...
#pain #healthcare
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View of hooded merganser from behind as it swims away. Small water bird with big hooded head with white patch , back and brown back with white stripes.
See ya. #birds
20.01.2026 12:20 — 👍 24 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Small duck with big helmet- like head and patches of white, brown and black feathers
The hooded merganser is an awesome winter #bird
18.01.2026 21:10 — 👍 30 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Train platform with workers in orange uniforms shovelling snow. Sky is dark and lights are on.
Early morning digging out train platforms after #Toronto snow day
16.01.2026 12:07 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The goals of psychiatric care - more freedom, less cruelty, less suffering - are brought into relief by the story of a woman who chose medically assisted death. open.substack.com/pub/bobmaund...
15.01.2026 22:31 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Fat blue fancy pigeon with multicoloured neck fringe, banded, standing on rock
Red parrot like bird in an enclosure
Pink galah walking on log
Zoo #birds
15.01.2026 03:21 — 👍 15 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0This is stunning. Listen to this in Philadelphia.
Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.”
Really listen to it.
Great picture!
08.01.2026 21:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Red-tailed hawk perched on streetlight
City hawk 🪶
04.01.2026 20:09 — 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Two ducks, one brown, one white and black with fancy feathers on green water
Hooded Merganser and Goldeneye toodling around icy water 🪶
03.01.2026 22:18 — 👍 20 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Brown and white duck on rolling blue water
Light was beautiful this afternoon on Frenchman’s Bay, Lake Ontario 🪶
01.01.2026 23:10 — 👍 17 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A bed and sink in an old hospital with the title, Sandbags: When I knew nothing, Harry taught me that relationships are the foundation of medicine.
My night with Harry foreshadowed a career in medicine. This is what we do… using whatever blunt tools are available to buy time, waiting for a better solution, knowing that the stakes are high, the solution is often elusive, and that just being there may be the best medicine we have to offer.
30.12.2025 17:36 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
On being genuinely human in health care
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Grey and white bird with crossbill perched on winter branch with blue sky in background
This was exciting (to me). On a day with no birds to see except gulls and chickadees - my very first sighting of a Northern Shrike. 🪶
21.12.2025 20:43 — 👍 21 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
Irvin Yalom asserts humans are "'the uncontested authors' of their lives... individuals create everything... including their own suffering. I have no idea how a thoughtful, observant, person who spent a life in the business of caring for others could believe that."
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Fancy looking long tail duck in midst of crashing grey waves
Rough surf for the long-tails on windy cold Lake Ontario 🪶
20.12.2025 23:43 — 👍 25 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
