This is an AI summary of Gabbard’s “The Exit Line.” It is completely wrong and interprets the meaning of the paper backwards; Gabbard’s work states the exact opposite.
AI is not an expert, it’s more like a con artist.
“Artificial” Intelligence indeed.
For me, the crucial queries are: “What’s going on around here?” and “How did it come to happen?”
- Edgar Levenson
Your adoring audience is a separate issue 🤣
I believe that the true definition of a parasocial relationship is one that is totally non-reciprocal/one-sided, so by virtue of my reply, it is not 🤣
I think a related risk is people becoming too invested in online interactions. These are tools for life, not a substitute for it.
Yes. This sits alongside the fact that these platforms can help people to connect, but are more regularly used for parasocial relationships and projection. Keeping it productive can be an uphill battle.
Psychoanalysts can be arrogant. By interacting only with each other, they become increasingly certain of the correctness of their ideas. Consequently, each challenge from outside the discipline results in an ever-tighter “circling of the wagons” and an increase in defensive denial.
- R. Bornstein
“When I came out to the waiting room, he [the patient] looked deeply shocked and said, “You don’t look like Glen Gabbard!” I told him I hoped he could go on with our consultation despite his disappointment.”
- Glen Gabbard
Rascal probably thinks this is too restrained and I found a live shot of his prep kitchen 🤣
@rascality.bsky.social - What say you? 🤣
I doubt that anyone will look back on this era of social media and say that it appealed to our better nature. For all the benefits these tools provide, we have to call them what they are: A splitting accelerant.
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“Freud’s Ghost in the Machine” 🤣
A more serious offering: “The Digital Depths”
For those overwhelmed by the depth and breadth of Rascal’s account, the Maillard reaction is not a psychoanalysis thing 🤣
Did you sear the beef beforehand? I know it says you can skip that step but…
Although in plain English the word 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 has a connotation of adversarial belligerence, confrontation as a therapeutic technique should be carried out with courtesy and tact and, above all, with genuine curiosity.
- Frank Yeomans
“I’ve sometimes jokingly said that your functioning as a therapist could improve 31.6% if you would just substitute one word for another…’Both, and’ is one way, or ‘also’ vs. ‘really.’” Saying or thinking, ‘What you’re really feeling is…’ implies what you’re thinking is false.
- Paul Wachtel
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“Thus, the two terms (unconscious and implicit) are roughly equivalent and are mostly differentiated by who is writing and for whom.”
- Stoycheva & Weinberger, 2014
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“Where analysts talk about unconscious processes, nonpsychoanalytic branches of psychological science employ a different label, 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑡, in the belief that this term is more value neutral, scientific, and empirical…”
Many intuitively resonant ideas and common cultural notions come from the psychoanalytic tradition (e.g, identity crisis, inferiority complex, defense, projection) but are often not seen as psychoanalytic. There is an idea that if it makes sense, it isn’t psychoanalysis.
- Nancy McWilliams
Alpha function acts on the data from a person’s total emotional experience…it renders this emotional experience comprehensible and meaningful…By naming it alpha function, Bion hoped to be able to keep the concept open to avoid the premature imposition of meaning.
- Joan & Neville Symington
“My clinical experience with treatments that seemed to founder…because conflict and psychic pain that should have been verbalized were instead being expressed largely through somatic discharge.”
- Joyce McDougall
Wilfred Wonderland 🤣🌲
Surprisingly, “One Battle After Another” is not about Therapy Twitter.
Are you now too distinguished for “Tryst for the Mill”? 🤣
A patient communicates on three channels (verbal, non-verbal, reactions evoked in others). The therapist communicates this way, too. Thus, it’s vital for a therapist to believe in their approach. If the therapist speaks inauthentically, 2 out of 3 channels will be playing something different.
As this article wonderfully illustrates, the spurning of psychoanalytic thought has led to serious deficiencies in training programs.
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“Shouldn’t a therapist be excellent at understanding symptoms, wise about people, and extraordinary at relationship maintenance?”
- Michael Karson (2018)
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“This is, of course, exactly what it means, but clinicians hear it in a pathologizing context, as if you just said that you want to be the best member of a family. When Tom Brady discusses his pursuit of excellence, no one chides him for making the other quarterbacks feel bad…”
