lily scherlis

Boundary Issues — Parapraxis How boundaries became the rules for mental health—and explain everything Lily Scherlis

Been obsessively thinking about parallels between "personal boundaries" & national borders. Did some googling this morning & found this amazing essay by @lilyscherlis.bsky.social historicizing pop psych "boundaries" talk in Cold War (60s) & neoliberal (early 90s) moments. Highly recommend.

MLA dance card makers! The Forum on Literary Criticism has 3 sessions: Genres of Criticism (15); Psychoanalytic Criticism Today (316); Portable Concepts for Non-Eurocentric Theory (719). I'll be speaking at Psychic Life Under Polycrisis (34), + hosting Comparative Theory social hour Fri at 6:30.

literally every pop psychology topic I research winds up tracing back to 1969–73

in the wellness dystopia of the future they will call church services weekly appointments with the Master Psychiatrist

would love to join!

a total honor to make the list. thanks for reading!

thedriftmag.com/skill-issues

Skill Issues Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Its Discontents

@lilyscherlis.bsky.social on the politics of Dialectical Behavior Therapy
www.thedriftmag.com/skill-issues/

just found the prequel to Mating in Captivity, which features the word "Palestine" exactly four times

glaring omission indeed

a literary man at this cafe is reading a very long passage from Taming of the Shrew aloud to his gf and i’m thinking of asking him to disappear

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if they did have mensa for EQ no one in this kitchen would qualify

BREAKING: Autonomous anti-genocide activists bring the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade to a grinding halt after blockading the McDonald’s float for a second year in a row.

“Those grinches who thinks they can disrupt the parade: it’s not going to happen,” Mayor Eric Adams said yesterday.

11 months later, I’ve still yet to say anything nice about Germany especially after withdrawing a museum exhibition I curated about genocide denialism because the directors of the museum and museum system told me I couldn’t say Germany hadn’t properly recognized the genocide in Namibia.

Love “booster shot for the revolutionary imagination” as a description of our book.

that I intend to do!

thanks for this! if non-clinicians are welcome i’d love to join!

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the most academic thing about me is whenever someone says “good question” I feel like a dog being given a treat

I too exist elsewhere

i'm "writing dialectically," aka starting every other paragraph with the word "unfortunately"

I vote in PA and I voted for Harris. It was utterly maddening to fill in that bubble and I’ll be there for the struggle to come, whichever way this goes

tried to print an article on Bion's concept of emotional containment and my printer leaked a shit ton of toner all over the floor and I have never related to a machine more

feels like all of us are rapid-cycling between finding words to describe our horror and finding words to describe the total failure of words to describe our horror

Jameson on finding his way into Marxism. He also happens to be describing exactly what his work has often done for me

ok which one of you did this

if someone asks if you’ve read something you haven’t, you

everyone who says sartre's critique of dialectical reason is sooooo dry stopped reading before they got to the horny parts

pretty soon service work for humanities scholars is just going to be babysitting people like this guy