David Pocock

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Reality: Brexit's a disaster.
Labour Apologist: The EU don't want us back.
Reality: Here's the EU saying they want us back.
Labour Apologist: Brits don't want to rejoin.
Reality: Here are polls showing people want to rejoin.
Labour Apologist: We must be patient.
Reality: We've been waiting 9 years!

“After all research on psychotherapy is accounted for, psychotherapy still resolves itself into a relationship best subsumed by the word love”
- Arthur Burton (1967)

#psychotherapy #humanisticpsychology

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Some of my favorite quotes speak to the paradoxes inherent in psychotherapy:

If the analyst cannot be experienced as a new object, analysis never gets under way; if he cannot be experienced as an old one, it never ends.
- Jay Greenberg

“His [Bion’s] tendency to leave space for people to think for themselves seemed evasive to some, or purposefully confusing, and others wondered if he was psychotic.”

- Reiner, A. (2023).

Emergence is a core idea in Bhaskar's critical realist philosophy of science.

Depth psychology, because being human is more profound than the shallows of its symptoms.

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What was the criticism?

Not said often enough. The closest alternative 'race' ('subspecies' is moe accurate) were Neanderthals and we saw them off 40,000 years ago although also interbred, so not even that distinction holds up.

Pol Pot?

Mao?

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

i sing of Olaf glad and big Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Tumblr View print mode Copy embed code Add this poem to an anthology E. E. Cummings 1894 – 1962 XXX i sing of Olaf glad and big whose warmest heart recoiled at war: a conscientious object-or his wellbelovéd colonel(trig westpointer most succinctly bred) took erring Olaf soon in hand; but--though an host of overjoyed noncoms(first knocking on the head him)do through icy waters roll that helplessness which others stroke with brushes recently employed anent this muddy toiletbowl, while kindred intellects evoke allegiance per blunt instruments-- Olaf(being to all intents a corpse and wanting any rag upon what God unto him gave) responds,without getting annoyed "I will not kiss your fucking flag" straightway the silver bird looked grave (departing hurriedly to shave) but--though all kinds of officers (a yearning nation's blueeyed pride) their passive prey did kick and curse until for wear their clarion voices and boots were much the worse, and egged the firstclassprivates on his rectum wickedly to tease by means of skilfully applied bayonets roasted hot with heat-- Olaf(upon what were once knees) does almost ceaselessly repeat "there is some shit I will not eat" our president,being of which assertions duly notified threw the yellowsonofabitch into a dungeon,where he died Christ(of His mercy infinite) i pray to see;and Olaf,too preponderatingly because unless statistics lie he was more brave than me:more blond than you.

I have loved EE Cummings’ poem “I Sing of Olaf Glad and Big” since I was 16. He wrote it in 1931. I think of it often these days - words to fucking live by.

If your ideological motive is to argue someone out of it, then I would certainly see that as transphobic. But the fact you allow no space between automatic affirmation and transphobia supports my original comment about splitting and black and white thinking.

Can't speak for all of them...

I can speak for all of them, but you are mistaken when it comes to Anna. Please don't fall into the trap of assuming transphobia when people want to pause and think.

Please. If you are not immediately trans-affirming, that does not make you an automatic transphobe. We need to resist this intense splitting to keep open some thinking space. This middle ground does include thoughtful practitioners like Hutchinson.

You track them in parallel.

Connects not corrects. Grrr ..

You really need to read Bhaskar's critical realism, which coherently corrects these strands.

If we believed women, we wouldn't need the list.

Let that sink in.

Underrated tweet.

2125: Brontë country is a wilderness of mesquite, cactus and tumbleweed, with average daily temperatures of 40 degrees. “But at least we stopped the wind turbines”.

30 years on, I honour the Bosniak boys and men who were victims of the Srebrenica genocide.

I also honour the mothers who carry the weight of that loss for decades.

We must remember and preserve the truth, so that future generations know exactly what happened in Srebrenica.

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