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Nancy Dreyfus psychotherapist, conscious journalism advocate

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Journalist turned shrink and couples therapist. Author of "Talk To Me Like I'm Someone You Love.” Join Psydbar, my Substack newsletter calling for psychologically-informed news. ⬇️ linktr.ee/nancydreyfus_psyd

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We need The Epstein Files to get the goods on Trump?? Like really...? (heads-up: the graphic below won't make sense until you start reading the actual post beneath.)

Could the Epstein Files possibly tell us anything we don't already know about our president's character? Consider so much of it "hoopla"--what the dictionary defines as "exaggerated publicity."

17.11.2025 22:09 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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How do you hold it when a man who has created such antagonism and disruption deserves credit for bringing the war to an end and the hostages back? Start by noting any resistance you might have to giving him credit.

I felt called upon to address what a lot of people were thinking, but not really talking about: what to do when someone you don't respect and actively dislike does a noble thing.

13.10.2025 21:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Nancy Dreyfus (@nancydreyfus) I’d love your support in upgrading all this “fighting back” from pointing out all the outrageous things that are happening to raising consciousness so more people understood that they’ve been normaliz...

substack.com/@nancydreyfu...

26.09.2025 03:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Some thoughts on the young man who wanted Charlie Kirk dead. In the same way I haven't wanted Trump's primary label to be fascist, I don't want Tyler Robinson's to be murderer. I do want to deeply understand, though, why he'd want to stop Charlie Kirk.

You’ll understand here what I’ve really meant with the word psydbar—the psychological news underneath the “news news.”

20.09.2025 20:16 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A reader has asked: "Nancy, Why would you call him immature and not a fascist?" It's a reasonable question. And because it's so reasonable, I am asking readers to tolerate a temporary unsettled feeling that may come when someone presents a new way of looking at "the obvious."

A reader has asked: "Nancy, Why would you call him immature and not a fascist?"

This required me to do a deep dive to the core of my truth about the human condition. You'll need to read a few grafs on human development, but I suspect the conclusion I come to is worth it. Let me know how it lands.

09.09.2025 01:13 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Nancy Dreyfus on Robert Reich I'm a Columbia J. School graduate and former journalist who years ago gave up an enviable job offer at The Times to become a psychotherapist. I quickly learned that a newsroom was no place for a fan o...

Sunday thought: Is there a silver lining to these darkening clouds?
Maybe It's just as important to educate Americans to "Re-perceive" Trump as a non-adult...than to just "fight back."

24.08.2025 13:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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"Vote Grownup!" would be enough if more people understood human development. And that's the Democrats' wild card if they can distinguish between portraying maturity and arrogance.

"Vote Grownup!" would be enough if more people understood human development. There would be no need for a "diagnosis." It would simply be universally understood that that a 2-year-old who was still crawling had not yet reached the stage of walking upright.

23.08.2025 15:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Maturity lessons from the Epstein drama How quickly Trump's followers can go from idealization to demonization. Why is it that no one is really asking just for the truth?

Maturity lessons from the Epstein drama
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10.08.2025 22:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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psydbar | Nancy Dreyfus | Substack Paying attention to the psychological factors underpinning what goes on in the world isn’t tainting objectivity—it’s putting an end to fake news. Click to read psydbar, by Nancy Dreyfus, a Substack pu...

That psydbar typewriter logo above goes with nancydreyfus.substack.com Let's stop giving so much attention to an infantile and malicious person and start investigating how over 70 million people were blind or uncaring of putting an extremely childish person in a grownup role.

10.08.2025 20:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
nancydreyfus.substack.com  My newsletter has been launched! Let's stop giving so much attention to a an infantile malicious person and start investigating how over 70 Million people were blind to putting a child in a grownup role.

nancydreyfus.substack.com My newsletter has been launched! Let's stop giving so much attention to a an infantile malicious person and start investigating how over 70 Million people were blind to putting a child in a grownup role.

10.08.2025 19:59 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

As if caring about another’s suffering was pretentious…..

20.05.2025 02:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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That the current administration represents “the inner soul of the people,” is the real depressant. Predicted 105 years ago. 😢

09.03.2025 13:27 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks for sharing something so useful and simple!

09.03.2025 13:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is what had been shaking me, George

Anybody have the same feeling watching Trump brutalize Zelensky that you had watching Derek Chauvin choke George Floyd? I did. In both cases we watched someone taking pleasure dehumanizing a virtually helpless human being.

08.03.2025 17:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

In a month of tsunamis, this one distinguishing The Greenes really shook me. thanks for bringing this to my consciousness.

08.03.2025 17:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Surreal and scarily correct.

07.03.2025 22:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Anybody have the same feeling watching Trump brutalize Zelensky that you had watching Derek Chauvin choke George Floyd? I did. In both cases we watched someone taking pleasure dehumanizing a virtually helpless human being. Shame on anyone who could even begin to condone such a heartless hazing.

05.03.2025 02:56 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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