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Martha Crawford
@whatashrinkthinks.com
focused on: death work, dream work, community building & psychologies of liberation

Essays in Slate, Vox, New York Magazine

Crone
Quaker-ish
She/Her


Website: whatashrinkthinks.com
Pinned
A thread to pin to my feed about the different kinds of work that I do around something central that feels whole to me:

Almost everything is offered on a pay-what-you-can basis

Upcoming events and workshops are a good place to start
What A Shrink Thinks
Martha Crawford offering workshops, consultations, and essays on dreams, death, contemplation, community resilience and psychologies of liberation
www.whatashrinkthinks.com
We move on to new books regularly and new members can join with each new book!

We usually try to sit with two texts per mystic 🧙🏻‍♀️
November 25, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Yep!
November 25, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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We are wading into Meister Eckhart on December 4th if you want to tip-toe in with us

Accepting new members
Depth & Mysticism Study Group — What A Shrink Thinks
a bimonthly facilitated reading and discussion group
www.whatashrinkthinks.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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Dream study requires that we look at ourselves embedded in a dominant culture that actively - through advertising, social and mass media, and propaganda -attempts to shape our thoughts and behaviors by activating our instinctive reactions...

By donation, Tues in January
Dream Workshop — What A Shrink Thinks
Exploring dreams as a creative, contemplative, and community-building practice
www.whatashrinkthinks.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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This subscription tier offers two essays and one zoom discussion group every month for $10 or less (annual fee is discounted) every month
Lectio Essays | Explore Insightful Reflections — What A Shrink Thinks
Delve into meditative essays and discussions on archetypal, mystical texts. Subscribe for thought-provoking content twice monthly.
www.whatashrinkthinks.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Financial toxicity kills

Even just knowing the real total charges of your chemotherapy can shorten lives, especially for extremely expensive treatments.
November 25, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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95% of authors are not making a living through book publishing. The public needs to understand this.
November 25, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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The reasons are not that complicated.
bsky.app/profile/erik...
Posting the left handedness chart online from now until the end of time:
November 25, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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1/ THREAD: This year ICE has sent a record 600 immigrant kids into federal shelters, more than in the previous four years combined. Data suggests some are being separated from their families.

For one 15-year-old, it began with a cracked windshield 👇
November 25, 2025 at 2:01 AM
💖💖
November 25, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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Commentary: Political leaders talk about “heritage” but not “sovereignty” and see Native tribes as part of the past, not as governments operating now. bit.ly/3JQVx2Q

📝 Kerri Malloy
November 24, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Anyway, it's kind of insane that Carville's claim to fame was getting a candidate 43% in a presidential election (the lowest winning share of the popular vote since Woodrow Wilson) and we've had to hear from him non-stop for three+ decades.
November 24, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Last week in dream group, a dream someone shared led to the question:

"What to do if one needs help, but the 'helpers' are harmful?"

It simmered down overwhelming and unrelenting headlines to one precise quandary, and that essence has helped me better see my role (and potential role) in things.
You may imagine this is a deeply woo-woo workshop-

But I actually think of it as quite agnostic, and political - focused on forging a discerning relationship with our intuitions and noticing the cultural myths and manipulations that influence and form us.
Dream study requires that we look at ourselves embedded in a dominant culture that actively - through advertising, social and mass media, and propaganda -attempts to shape our thoughts and behaviors by activating our instinctive reactions...

By donation, Tues in January
November 24, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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You may imagine this is a deeply woo-woo workshop-

But I actually think of it as quite agnostic, and political - focused on forging a discerning relationship with our intuitions and noticing the cultural myths and manipulations that influence and form us.
Dream study requires that we look at ourselves embedded in a dominant culture that actively - through advertising, social and mass media, and propaganda -attempts to shape our thoughts and behaviors by activating our instinctive reactions...

By donation, Tues in January
Dream Workshop — What A Shrink Thinks
Exploring dreams as a creative, contemplative, and community-building practice
www.whatashrinkthinks.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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I really wish more scientists & artists were on here. When I go to in-person gatherings it’s really clear what a small sliver of us are here.

And I get it, how many social media collapses do you have to weather before you just give up?

But organizing would be so much easier if we were all here 😭
November 24, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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I have two friends who reported experienced that exact same awful treatment. There is no excuse for the systems who claim to be helping us to push this crackpot shit. If SSRIs cured LC there’d be a lot less LC. Putrino’s
@ this link👇🏻is the only clinic I’ve heard anyone have a good experience with.
Abilities Research Center (ARC) Directors | Icahn School of Medicine
Meet the Abilities Research Center (ARC) directors, who through their leadership, have continued the tradition of medical excellence and innovation.
icahn.mssm.edu
November 24, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Ppl w #LongCovid in nyc: avoid the Mt Sinai clinic in union square.
It is not connected to the one lead by David Putrino. The union square is run by a nurse who is pushing SSRIs as the only possible Covid treatment & if you don’t want them they refuse to offer anything else.
And they insult you.
November 24, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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I will also tell you this:

There were as many bot-farmed “dreams” about Donald Trump as “savior” as there were bot-“dreams” about Trump as anti-Christ.

Its not just “others” that propagandist bot farms have been manipulating.
November 24, 2025 at 7:32 PM
I will also tell you this:

There were as many bot-farmed “dreams” about Donald Trump as “savior” as there were bot-“dreams” about Trump as anti-Christ.

Its not just “others” that propagandist bot farms have been manipulating.
November 24, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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If you want to take workshop on the collective aspects of dreaming with a Mad Cassandra who people decided was "a little too out there" when its just facts -

You are welcome to sign up - pay what you can.
Dream Workshop — What A Shrink Thinks
Exploring dreams as a creative, contemplative, and community-building practice
www.whatashrinkthinks.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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Maybe after X's location reveal more people will understand how bot-farms are constantly trying to shape our behavior, and our unconscious beliefs.

But it really sucks screaming the sky-is-falling about this since 2018 to BLANK STARES and rolling eyes.
November 24, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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people have regularly looked at me like I am mad.

Like "BOTS? PSYOPS? Trying to influence our DREAMS?"

Yes.

Yes.

exactly that.
November 24, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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When I have actually talked about the psyop dreams I came across in the 45 Dreams project - (collected and sorted over 3,000 dreams of Donald Trump from anonymous submissions & Twitter ) - the bot dreams that I ignored for a long time, before I understood why I should consider a sample at least -
November 24, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Yes. So many beautiful souls lost.
November 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Okay. Yes. We’re bored now. We’re all bored. But has it ever occurred to you, Charlie Brown, that the process which creates this boredom that we see in the world now may very well be a self-perpetuating unconscious form of brainwashing created by a world totalitarian government based on money?
Everything's in ruins, Charlie Brown, everything's been degraded, but I could say that they've ruined and degraded everything, because this is not some kind of cataclysm coming about with so-called innocent human aid, on the contrary, it's about man's own judgment over his own self, which of course–
I know you’re not actually a person in the strictest sense of the word, Charlie Brown.
November 24, 2025 at 3:33 PM