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
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Harry Stack Sullivan is purported to have said, βGod keep me from a clever psychoanalyst!β Truly, humility is the beginning of wisdom.
- Edgar Levenson
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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.
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I could not like this comment more.
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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
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Even the Barefoot Contessa buys phyllo dough!
Besides, weβre too busy with AI glasses π€£
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Is Bluesky ready for a series on learning to set fires and oil changes? π€£
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π€£ A renaissance man for the modern age!
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ββ¦on the part of the other. In other words, from masochistic submission to an unrealistic view of the coupleβs relationship, where trust is not in the other person, but in a fantasized relationship that does not correspond to reality.β
- Otto Kernberg
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βThe 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 mistreatmentβ¦
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I donβt go to therapy anymore. I make a pit stop once a year, just to see if my therapist is all right.
- Richard Lewis
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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)
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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 donβt know if itβs realistic to expect otherwise.
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The humble man makes room for progress; the proud man believes he is already there.
- Ed Parker
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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)
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Make connections along the way and donβt just call when you need something. The best collegial relationships have elements of friendship.
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βππ π¦πβπππ‘ππ¦ ππ‘ π‘βπ πππππππ is a labor of love and a one-person-plus-friends operation.β
βOne-person-plus-friends operationβ 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.
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βMore than once I have seen a practitioner given a kind of dismissive βpublic supervisionβ on presenting a caseβ¦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.β
- Nancy McWilliams
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βThere 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 otherβ¦β
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β βConversation? Iβll tell you whatβs wrong with conversation. It takes place in real time, and you canβt control what youβre going to say.β We become fascinated by the idea of a relational world that might be friction free.
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βAnd 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 conversationβ¦β
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βTechnology 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 partnersβ¦β
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X also seems to use an intermittent reinforcement schedule for healthy engagement - one reasonable reply every 10 to 12 days π€£
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Need a Boston accent for one of these π€£
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βWhen 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.β
- Louis Cozolino
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