“Love consists in this: that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.” - Rainer Maria Rilke
Lindsay Snow, PhD retweeted
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’
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Lindsay Snow, PhD retweeted
The worst C. S. Lewis adaptation was that one where his fans made him into an evangelical.
If we aren’t ordering Pumpkin Pie Lattes while reading our Very Important™️ psychoanalytic texts, what are we even doing?
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
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
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.
“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,
…Object Relations ² ???
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