Hey :)

“Comedies begin in trouble and end in peace; tragedies begin in calms and end in tempest.”

Totally! And I realized some the papers have appeared elsewhere, multiple times! wtf!

:) I had a similar reaction. I feel like Psychotherapy for the People repeated a lot

And for Freud and Beyond, maybe just my needs and taste, I never quite got into. Tried different times across the years lol

For me, the crucial queries are: “What’s going on around here?” and “How did it come to happen?”
- Edgar Levenson

“Interpretation is not a statement designed to provide verbal symbolization for repressed ucs conflict in an effort to make the ucs cs. Rather, it’s a way of telling the pt a portion of what the analyst is thinking in a form that the pt may be able to use in thinking his own thoughts” Ogden

If anyone wants to join me, it's free!

I suspect this is not Summit's first time on earth

Me: When people like [redacted Twitter nemesis] say therapy schools no longer adequately screen out applicants, they never mean people like [someone we know as unboundaried, maybe predatory]. They mean people like me. I'm not supposed to be here. I was always only meant to be a patient.

GVD: Yeahhh

for me, words that should guide every psychotherapy:

"We help people develop their self-understanding, not tell them who they are."

Historian Pauline Maier once told me that the downside of doing documentaries is that you can watch yourself age over time.

I think about this all the time.

She was so right.

A sticker for anyone who can tell me what the hat is called!!!

Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming

In honor of Black History Month, here's a thread with one book recommendation a day.

“Imagine how they lie when there’s no evidence to contradict them.”

Watch this powerful message from Jon Stewart.

Alex Pretti from his early days working at the VA

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

It’s funny that there was bipartisan consensus to do this.

wtf lol and yea not missing twitter

Vendler: “A poem, said Coleridge, can communicate while it is imperfect understood.”

Same with our psychic experiences!

Yeats: “Tell a little & he is Hamlet; tell all & he is nothing. Nothing has life except the incomplete.”

“In the meantime, if you demand on the one hand, in defiance of their opinion—

the raw material of poetry in

all its rawness, and

that which is on the other hand,

genuine, then you are interested in poetry.”

“we cannot understand.”

“if it must, these things are important not because a

high-sounding interpretation can be put upon them but because they are

useful; when they become so derivative as to become unintelligible, the

same thing may be said for all of us—that we

do not admire what

The Civil Rights Movement.

EYES ON THE PRIZE is solid, but over forty years old. There's been a lot of great work on the movement since then. And while EYES leaned heavily on interviews with participants, a new series could make use of that scholarship to get beyond the Montgomery-to-Memphis arc.

Shelley -

Yet fear the cure, though hating the disease.

Shelley -

For, when the power of imparting joy
Is equal to the will, no human soul
Requires no other Heaven

Police should all be studied to see what’s wrong with their brains.

Mary Oliver -

Emotional freedom, the integrity and special quality of one’s own work - these are not first things, but final things. Only the patient and diligent, as well as the inspired, get there.

Yeats -

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry. Unlike the rhetoricians, who get a confident voice from remembering the crowd they have won or may win, we sing amid our uncertainty.

Wow. Hopefully the snow comes around soon ;) there’s more sunlight on my end, tho I would take some rain :) the elections were hopefully something of a start