It can be a challenge to take Freud at his word— he was not merely providing metaphorical language for the psychoanalytic endeavor. His most audacious contributions were intended to represent psychological phenomena as much as they were meant to describe actual physical realities of everyday life.
McWilliams: Nutritious insights, demonstrates a disposition worth emulating, will help your clinical practice immediately
Lacan: (shout out to Zelda fans)
Behind the mask of indifference is bottomless misery and behind apparent callousness, despair.
- John Bowlby
Me now realizing it will take me 190 months.
Everyone just wants a slice of Rascal!
Avgi Saketopoulou, The Risk of Analysis
The goal of supervision is to develop the capacity for self-supervision, including knowing when to ask for help.
A colleague said recently, “Do we love psychoanalysis enough to invite people in?”
“The solution to exclusion can only be to call for inclusion, in this case inclusion in knowledge.”
- Jessica Benjamin
One free Feelings Wheel replacement if you like us on Instagram
Intellectualization:
When knowing-it-all is a defense against feeling it all.
Psychoanalysis is, in essence, a Keurig through love.
When the new office coffee machine sounds like a 1st year grad student.
When you’re a Christian and also a psychoanalytic therapist, reading Philippians may actually mean you’ve started making your way through Adam Phillips’ essays.
Congrats to Stephanie Foster ( @bitesizetherapy.bsky.social) on receiving honorable mention in "Excellence in Journalism" award by American Psychoanalytic Association (APsA) for her article "The Remaking of a Therapist" (Psychiatry at the Margins, Sep 2023)
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/the-remaki...
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We’re cookin, Rascal!
It’s potent stuff. Iykyk.
Oh I’m googling these immediately.
Hey great tip about the stylus! Thanks so much! Really enjoying it so far for note-taking as well.
Holy moly. This thing is a total game changer. Watch out, PDFs— I’m about to read and mark you up so hard!
15 years ago— when Rascal was young and naive 🤣
Oh. 🆗.🆒.
Milestone/Open Thread
Celebrating 2-year anniversary of “Psychiatry at the Margins” and 10K subscribers
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/milestoneo...
What are you making Rascal?
"I think I'm losing control of the whole world." - Charlie Brown (1973)
Thanksgiving mood:
Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love, and in order to occupy and distract himself without love he gives way to passions and coarse pleasures, and sinks to bestiality in his vices, all from continual lying to other men and to himself. The man who lies to himself can be more easily offended than any one. You know it is sometimes very pleasant to take offense, isn't it? A man may know that nobody has insulted him, but that he has invented the insult for himself, has lied and exaggerated to make it picturesque, has caught at a word and made a mountain out of a molehill-he knows that himself, yet he will be the first to take offense, and will revel in his resentment till he feels great pleasure in it, and so pass to genuine vindictiveness.
remembering a wise old supervisor during training
who told me to read less of the literature
and more literature
Dostoevsky via @dylanoa4.bsky.social
And it’s called Meowloncholy
Two kitties in Massachusetts is the only viable option here. I just can’t see any other workaround. Tell Joe the good news 🐈⬛🐈⬛
