Person. Clinical Psychologist. Candidate in Psychoanalysis. Occasionally witty. Posts/RTs/QTs/Likes are personal.

OC | LA
Joined December 2011
“Love consists in this: that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.” - Rainer Maria Rilke
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Paul Williams: There are “three qualities needed in a genuine analyst: patience, honesty and kindness – in other words, intelligence. Cleverness is not intelligence. Joseph Sandler was fond of saying, ‘Analysis is about making friends with parts of ourselves we don’t like’ 1/
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The worst C. S. Lewis adaptation was that one where his fans made him into an evangelical.
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If we aren’t ordering Pumpkin Pie Lattes while reading our Very Important™️ psychoanalytic texts, what are we even doing?
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Who knew Fairbairn was the ideal Spooky Season companion?
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In ordinary states of boredom the child returns to the possibility of his own desire. That boredom is actually a precarious process in which the child is, as it were, both waiting for something and looking for something, in which hope is being secretly negotiated. -Adam Phillips
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the snoopyssey
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The most useful general way of formulating what psychoanalysis is, is simply to say that it is an art of redescription. As [Bion] once said, the analyst & the patient are trying to find stories for the inappropriate. A fresh account of the unacceptable is required. -Adam Phillips
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Winnicott on “corrective” emotional experience:
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Passage from The Clearing by Tomas Tranströmer
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Good morning. As I sit here typing up a case summary, I've realized I now need to zoom in to about 140% on the Word doc to comfortably read what I am typing. Please respect my privacy as I adjust to this new season of my life.
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“The present-moment view of any object is always determined by the accident of where one is standing at the moment...But to know the truth of people you have to select and combine; to grasp the essence of them, whether in paint or thought,
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you have surely to combine all the partial glimpses into a relevant whole. This, however, since it requires imagination, brought me face to face with certain dangers inherent in the nature of imagination.” - Marion Milner, “On Not Being Able to Paint”
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We’re not changing it.
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Happy September
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Phillips and Fairytales ✨
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To wait to become oneself again.
Fine artists on waiting “I have done nothing all summer but wait for myself to be myself again.” Georgia O’Keeffe, 1933, photographed by her lifelong close friend Todd Webb in the doorway of her home in Abiquiú
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Passage from The Clearing by Tomas Tranströmer
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…Object Relations ² ???
Meghan Trainor unveils look-alike doll to help son Riley with separation anxiety trib.al/rqGwAnn
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"Community is first of all a quality of the heart. It grows from the spiritual knowledge that we are alive not for ourselves but for one another. Community is the fruit of our capacity to make the interests of others more important than our own." - Henri Nouwen
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