Adam DeVille, Ph.D.
@adamdeville.bsky.social
Professor of psychology and psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice. Canadian citizen abroad.
Thoughts and, uh, (non-Mormon) prayers?
December 14, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Thoughts and, uh, (non-Mormon) prayers?
I'd want some color piping on it.
December 14, 2025 at 4:41 AM
I'd want some color piping on it.
If I get into an author I become obsessive about it and have to track down everything--even some 76pp. book cranked out on a hand-press in a now-defunct monastery in the west of Ireland in 1922 before they became famous or whatever.
December 13, 2025 at 8:18 PM
If I get into an author I become obsessive about it and have to track down everything--even some 76pp. book cranked out on a hand-press in a now-defunct monastery in the west of Ireland in 1922 before they became famous or whatever.
Canadian Catholics would ask the same thing!
December 13, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Canadian Catholics would ask the same thing!
Snobbery in the defense of good taste is no vice.
December 10, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Snobbery in the defense of good taste is no vice.
There was a piece in the LRB a while back showing that apparently the number of jury trials is very small so this proposal will make almost no difference.
December 9, 2025 at 2:53 PM
There was a piece in the LRB a while back showing that apparently the number of jury trials is very small so this proposal will make almost no difference.
A friend went a decade ago and brought back the most amazing smoked salmon and pickled seaweed. I would go just to find that and eat it all.
Anyway, bon voyage!
Anyway, bon voyage!
December 6, 2025 at 5:00 AM
A friend went a decade ago and brought back the most amazing smoked salmon and pickled seaweed. I would go just to find that and eat it all.
Anyway, bon voyage!
Anyway, bon voyage!
A man of myriad talents!
December 6, 2025 at 1:44 AM
A man of myriad talents!
I've been seeing it in male student athletes for a couple of years now.
December 3, 2025 at 8:05 PM
I've been seeing it in male student athletes for a couple of years now.
I fucking hate doing lunges.
December 3, 2025 at 7:44 PM
I fucking hate doing lunges.
What are your favorites?
December 3, 2025 at 4:25 AM
What are your favorites?
I learned more in a gr.12 course in high school in Ontario about American history than any American undergraduate I have taught ever has.
December 2, 2025 at 1:43 AM
I learned more in a gr.12 course in high school in Ontario about American history than any American undergraduate I have taught ever has.
Challenge: find a nationalist/separatist movement that isn't absolutely riddled with magical thinking.
November 30, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Challenge: find a nationalist/separatist movement that isn't absolutely riddled with magical thinking.
Some audiobook folks should be offering you--with a voice at once mellifluous and steadying, and just a hint of mischief in it--a contract to do readings for them.
November 29, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Some audiobook folks should be offering you--with a voice at once mellifluous and steadying, and just a hint of mischief in it--a contract to do readings for them.
"Disobedience...is an...affirmation of reason & will. It is not primarily an attitude directed against something but *for* something: for man's capacity to see, to say what he sees, and to refuse to say what he does not see" (Erich Fromm, *On Disobedience: Why Freedom Means Saying No to Power*).
November 29, 2025 at 7:08 PM
"Disobedience...is an...affirmation of reason & will. It is not primarily an attitude directed against something but *for* something: for man's capacity to see, to say what he sees, and to refuse to say what he does not see" (Erich Fromm, *On Disobedience: Why Freedom Means Saying No to Power*).
I could rant for hours about this problem.
November 29, 2025 at 1:56 AM
I could rant for hours about this problem.
Love the colors!
November 27, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Love the colors!
What are you making?
November 27, 2025 at 1:10 AM
What are you making?
Are thoughts on any topic anything other than pseudo-profound when stoned?
November 26, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Are thoughts on any topic anything other than pseudo-profound when stoned?
I've always experimented with different times & days to find out when the grocery store is quietest. Also we should get free passes to run over certain vexatious people whose carts clog the aisle or who stand for an eternity trying to decide which sour cream or whatever to buy. Get outta my way!
November 26, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I've always experimented with different times & days to find out when the grocery store is quietest. Also we should get free passes to run over certain vexatious people whose carts clog the aisle or who stand for an eternity trying to decide which sour cream or whatever to buy. Get outta my way!
The incomparable Two Fat Ladies agreed with your ranking of pumpkin pie: m.youtube.com/watch?v=0k5v...
Two Fat Ladies - Never Let An American Near A Pumpkin - Their Take on American Pumpkin Pie!
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November 26, 2025 at 12:30 AM
The incomparable Two Fat Ladies agreed with your ranking of pumpkin pie: m.youtube.com/watch?v=0k5v...