Wrapped up journals for Fall 2025 Personality course!
Honorable Mentions   (2/2)
Maria Krumins-Beens 3X
 Jackson Lemmond 2X
 Saimaa Malhort2X
 Gabriella Martinez
 William North 2X
 Vedanshi Seth
 Faiza Shahzad2X
 Shana Sayfor 2X
 Erica Thompson
 Alvaro Antonio Tuason- excellent all term

I meant to ask for the existential case book that was mentioned. I might want to look at that.

If I wasn’t an analyst, I’d probably be an existentialist.

Brain 🧠 rot. I’ve just leaned into it. Nothing less cool than an old guy using it … sure to kill it out.

#WhyIBikeBlue ?
If I’ve just gotten off the bus instead of transferring to the subway and it’s a nice day, it’s a great way to just enjoy my beautiful city. #Boston.

#SweepsEntry

@bluecrossma.bsky.social

Only a few pages into the book, mostly having only read the forwards and introductions, and I can already feel it is going to be a lot.

2. be careful about encouraging psychotics to speak in a certain way, because analysis almost automatically thrusts them into the position of "" in their discourse, which may be difficult for those who feel they have no center, core, or foundation from which to speak.

3. Don't interpret using plays on words. Our starting point with psychotics, unlike neurotics, is that they say what they mean and mean what they say.
4. Don't make comments related to the absence or failure of the father or other separating figure in the psychotic's life history.

#Lacan's conclusions:
1. Don't have psychotics lie on the couch.

4. Don't try to show psychotics their "unconscious" for they believe nothing in themselves is unconscious. Everything that would be carefully hidden or even unconscious in others, such as sexual and aggressive thoughts and impulses, is completely conscious in psychotics.

Ferenczis conclusions, based on his clinical experiments with them:
1. Don't argue with psychotics.
2. Treat delusions as possible rather than as absurd, especially at the outset.
3. Don't interpret dreams; let psychotics do it themselves.

😂

that would otherwise flower around these binding processes we refer to as representation."p56

Great that he used "flower" since so much of this is about #Bion 's poppy flower.

disobjectalization, dismantaling, decathecting, splitting, projection, and anything involved in the severing of links between the expereince with fhs object; its perception, the corresponding affect, and the images and meanings ...

The science is real.