At the ISSPD conference and I ran into and shook hands with the wonderful and brilliant Nancy McWilliams. She’s so awesome!

For therapy to be therapeutic, it is more important for the clinician to understand people than to master specific treatment techniques…Unless one understands someone’s unique, personal subjectivity, one cannot infer the best treatment approach for that individual.
- Nancy McWilliams

A new study looking at the effectiveness of Ozempic-like drugs found them to be less - or even not - effective when patients are prone to emotional eating. Fascinating implications! www.frontiersin.org/journals/cli...

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Contemporary psychoanalysis can be summed up in a single sentence: We treat ourselves as we were treated, and the only way to really learn to treat ourselves differently is to be treated differently. There’s nothing magical or unscientific about this.
- Michael Karson

Commentary on the here-and-now is a unique aspect of the therapeutic relationship. There are few human situations in which we are permitted, let alone encouraged, to comment upon the immediate behavior of the other.
- Irvin Yalom

Here I am, a refugee from twitter.