Professor William Sharp

I didn't realize these so-called evidence-based therapies (ie, manualised) were actually based on studies that didn't even have statistically significant results. What's the point of these methods if they don't ultimately help people in the long-term? @drwilliamsharp.bsky.social #TalkingHelps

In “Where is the Evidence for Evidence-Based' Therapy“, Shedler is careful to note that the term ‘statistically significant’ is more of a marketing technicality than a clinically meaningful result. It can be used to bolster an otherwise underwhelming “benefit”. @drwilliamsharp.bsky.social #psyc4666

A must read jonathanshedler.com/wp-content/u...

Discussing what evidence based therapy really means youtu.be/IQBx5TONHac

You and @lukepando.bsky.social are on the same idea. Let’s discuss!

Would you read what your therapist has to say about you? Therapists are now allowing patients to see their therapists' notes, in an attempt to improve therapeutic trust, communication, and self-confidence. #MentalHealthAwareness
@drwilliamsharp.bsky.social

After reading Dr. Laquercia’s blog on patients having access to their therapists’ notes, I agree with his apprehension. Discussing a patient’s progress can be an important part of the analytic process that I fear may be lost through the sharing of therapists’ notes. @drwilliamsharp.bsky.social

Simple answer- yes. It does.

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Why Doomscrolling is Secretly a Search for Hope After finding myself in a doomscroll-spiral, I realised I wasn’t chasing disaster but reassurance – I was hopescrolling.

Doom- or hope-scrolling? Either way- it’s important to know about why we are doing it, avoid the repetition compulsion (& understand negative reinforcement)… “We are upset about the state of the world bc we care about it… that is something precious to hold on to.”

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People often believe the lies they are told, despite actually knowing they are lies, because the story of the lie is more preferable than the truth.

They are pretending (to themselves) not to know.

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Why you regress into a stroppy teen at Christmas (and what you can do about it) 'Tis the season for regression – even if you're older, wiser and have done a heap load of therapy. Here Dr. Aaron Balick breaks down why going home for the holidays is so challenging, and how you can ...

It is a truth universally acknowledged amongst psychotherapists that however much progress a client has made through December, they will invariably return a hot mess come January.

www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/why-...

I remember this PSA.

The Boston Common is lit for the season!

Thank you to everyone who braved the cold last night to join us in celebrating the 85th annual Boston Common Tree Lighting! 🌟

Wrapped up journals for Fall 2025 Personality course!
Honorable Mentions   (2/2)
Maria Krumins-Beens 3X
 Jackson Lemmond 2X
 Saimaa Malhort2X
 Gabriella Martinez
 William North 2X
 Vedanshi Seth
 Faiza Shahzad2X
 Shana Sayfor 2X
 Erica Thompson
 Alvaro Antonio Tuason- excellent all term

Wrapped up journals for Fall 2025 Personality course!
Honorable Mentions (1/2)         
 Darsh Bhalala
 Svetlana Bogdanova
 Magaret Canavan
 Adora Chen
 Ella Chen
 Sarah Del Prado
 Andrew Ding

I meant to ask for the existential case book that was mentioned. I might want to look at that.

If I wasn’t an analyst, I’d probably be an existentialist.

Brain 🧠 rot. I’ve just leaned into it. Nothing less cool than an old guy using it … sure to kill it out.

#WhyIBikeBlue ?
If I’ve just gotten off the bus instead of transferring to the subway and it’s a nice day, it’s a great way to just enjoy my beautiful city. #Boston.

#SweepsEntry

@bluecrossma.bsky.social

Only a few pages into the book, mostly having only read the forwards and introductions, and I can already feel it is going to be a lot.

A photograph of Hannah ARENDT’s, the origins of total terrorism book

“…[antisemitism] had hardly been noticed by either learned or public opinion because [it] belonged to a subterranean stream of European history where, hidden from the light of the public & the attention of the enlightened, [it] had been able to gather an entirely unexpected violence.“p7 Arendt

2. be careful about encouraging psychotics to speak in a certain way, because analysis almost automatically thrusts them into the position of "" in their discourse, which may be difficult for those who feel they have no center, core, or foundation from which to speak.

3. Don't interpret using plays on words. Our starting point with psychotics, unlike neurotics, is that they say what they mean and mean what they say.
4. Don't make comments related to the absence or failure of the father or other separating figure in the psychotic's life history.

#Lacan's conclusions:
1. Don't have psychotics lie on the couch.

4. Don't try to show psychotics their "unconscious" for they believe nothing in themselves is unconscious. Everything that would be carefully hidden or even unconscious in others, such as sexual and aggressive thoughts and impulses, is completely conscious in psychotics.

Ferenczis conclusions, based on his clinical experiments with them:
1. Don't argue with psychotics.
2. Treat delusions as possible rather than as absurd, especially at the outset.
3. Don't interpret dreams; let psychotics do it themselves.

Tips from this years conference I think Modern Psychoanalysts would agree with… from Bruce Fink #Lacan

Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies
What Not to Do with Psychotics

Had an amazing reunion with my former students @northeasternu.bsky.social while at a conference in New York. Keeps the importance of mentorship and the impact of teaching on future generations. @northeasterncos.bsky.social

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