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Psychologist. Personal thoughts, not professional advice. An account for therapists.

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There is nothing wrong with being a Freudian, a relationalist, an interpersonalist, a self psychologist, or whatever, as long as one does not succumb to the delusion that their school has a monopoly on truth and there is nothing to be learned from other approaches.
- Arnold Richards

04.08.2025 14:55 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Harry Stack Sullivan is purported to have said, β€œGod keep me from a clever psychoanalyst!” Truly, humility is the beginning of wisdom.
- Edgar Levenson

03.08.2025 15:41 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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This will only happen once so this is for posterity 🀣

02.08.2025 04:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Blurring the lines between the social and the professional is dangerous in both directions.
Language and ideas that are tools in therapeutic spaces can be a bludgeon in social ones.

01.08.2025 20:45 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I could not like this comment more.

01.08.2025 17:49 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Commentary on the here-and-now is a unique aspect of the therapeutic relationship. There are few human situations in which we are permitted, let alone encouraged, to comment upon the immediate behavior of the other.
- Irvin Yalom

01.08.2025 16:04 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Even the Barefoot Contessa buys phyllo dough!
Besides, we’re too busy with AI glasses 🀣

01.08.2025 02:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Is Bluesky ready for a series on learning to set fires and oil changes? 🀣

01.08.2025 02:37 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

🀣 A renaissance man for the modern age!

01.08.2025 00:29 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Attacks on linking? πŸ˜‰
(I’ll see myself out)

31.07.2025 03:38 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

*claps reluctantly*
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30.07.2025 21:47 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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β€œβ€¦on the part of the other. In other words, from masochistic submission to an unrealistic view of the couple’s relationship, where trust is not in the other person, but in a fantasized relationship that does not correspond to reality.”
- Otto Kernberg

30.07.2025 14:54 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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β€œThe reciprocal capacity, not only to ask for forgiveness, but to forgive the behavior of the other, to be able to start again after serious conflicts is a major test of mature love. But such a capacity to trust has to be differentiated from the denial of aggression and mistreatment…

30.07.2025 14:54 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I don’t go to therapy anymore. I make a pit stop once a year, just to see if my therapist is all right.
- Richard Lewis

29.07.2025 22:42 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The therapist must be prudent so as not to misuse the great sphere of influence granted to him by his patients.
- Freida Fromm-Reichmann (1950)

29.07.2025 19:35 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

There are things we already know and should teach, and of course the discipline should strive to learn more about what works in psychotherapy. However, I think there will always be something enigmatic about what we do. I don’t know if it’s realistic to expect otherwise.

29.07.2025 16:38 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The humble man makes room for progress; the proud man believes he is already there.
- Ed Parker

28.07.2025 22:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all.
- William Temple (cited in Marcus, 2012)

28.07.2025 14:38 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Make connections along the way and don’t just call when you need something. The best collegial relationships have elements of friendship.

26.07.2025 22:24 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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26.07.2025 15:52 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œπ‘ƒπ‘ π‘¦π‘β„Žπ‘–π‘Žπ‘‘π‘Ÿπ‘¦ π‘Žπ‘‘ π‘‘β„Žπ‘’ π‘€π‘Žπ‘Ÿπ‘”π‘–π‘›π‘  is a labor of love and a one-person-plus-friends operation.”

β€œOne-person-plus-friends operation” also describes psychotherapeutic practice and the vital role good colleagues play in our work.
Cheers to good colleagues and to @awaisaftab.bsky.social on 15K followers.

26.07.2025 15:52 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

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β€œMore than once I have seen a practitioner given a kind of dismissive β€˜public supervision’ on presenting a case…How individuals who, in the consulting room, are the soul of patience, the model of empathy, turn into such boors in public forums is an interesting question.”
- Nancy McWilliams

25.07.2025 15:15 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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β€œThere is a troubling phenomenon, much discussed by therapists but rarely addressed in the literature that I should note here, namely, the competitive and even scornful ways in which psychoanalytic professionals can treat each other…”

25.07.2025 15:15 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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β€œ β€˜Conversation? I’ll tell you what’s wrong with conversation. It takes place in real time, and you can’t control what you’re going to say.’ We become fascinated by the idea of a relational world that might be friction free.
- Sherry Turkle, π΄π‘™π‘œπ‘›π‘’ π‘‡π‘œπ‘”π‘’π‘‘β„Žπ‘’π‘Ÿ

24.07.2025 19:17 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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β€œAnd yet they will also say that they are happy to use technology to flee these conversations. Why? Because face-to-face conversations are difficult. Awkward. Spontaneous. Unscripted. Messy. One young man tells me he will do anything to avoid a conversation…”

24.07.2025 19:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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β€œTechnology makes us forget what we know about life. People will readily say that in face-to-face conversation they learn how to get on with other people and gather important understandings about their children, spouses, and partners…”

24.07.2025 19:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

X also seems to use an intermittent reinforcement schedule for healthy engagement - one reasonable reply every 10 to 12 days 🀣

24.07.2025 14:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Need a Boston accent for one of these 🀣

23.07.2025 19:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œWhen I started, I was looking for an answer and I wanted to know who had the answer. So I tried to become a disciple of one person or another person. It took me quite awhile to realize nobody has the answer. Everybody has a little piece of it.”
- Louis Cozolino

23.07.2025 14:43 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

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