There is truly nothing like receiving great consultation on a case. Especially when that case is one that is deep in uncontained projections, countertransference, and enactments. It is as if you are trapped/bound/imprisoned and the consultant frees you. It is a feeling of being one’s self again.
December 18, 2025 at 1:13 AM
There is truly nothing like receiving great consultation on a case. Especially when that case is one that is deep in uncontained projections, countertransference, and enactments. It is as if you are trapped/bound/imprisoned and the consultant frees you. It is a feeling of being one’s self again.
NPSI posted videos of the plenaries from the 2025 EBOR conference. The theme was music & psychoanalysis, featuring plenaries from Adam Blum, Peter Goldberg, and Michael Levin, (authors of "Here I'm Alive") with a third plenary with Alice Huang and Adam Rodriguez.
npsi.us.com/page-1075362
npsi.us.com/page-1075362
NPSI - EBOR 2025 Recordings
npsi.us.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:20 AM
NPSI posted videos of the plenaries from the 2025 EBOR conference. The theme was music & psychoanalysis, featuring plenaries from Adam Blum, Peter Goldberg, and Michael Levin, (authors of "Here I'm Alive") with a third plenary with Alice Huang and Adam Rodriguez.
npsi.us.com/page-1075362
npsi.us.com/page-1075362
3 excellent books which have been on my mind:
Isabel Wilkerson, “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents”
Leah Gordon, “From Power to Prejudice: The Rise of Racial Individualism in Midcentury America”
Michael Rothberg, “The Implicated Subject: Beyond Victims and Perpetrators”
Isabel Wilkerson, “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents”
Leah Gordon, “From Power to Prejudice: The Rise of Racial Individualism in Midcentury America”
Michael Rothberg, “The Implicated Subject: Beyond Victims and Perpetrators”
December 3, 2025 at 6:05 PM
3 excellent books which have been on my mind:
Isabel Wilkerson, “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents”
Leah Gordon, “From Power to Prejudice: The Rise of Racial Individualism in Midcentury America”
Michael Rothberg, “The Implicated Subject: Beyond Victims and Perpetrators”
Isabel Wilkerson, “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents”
Leah Gordon, “From Power to Prejudice: The Rise of Racial Individualism in Midcentury America”
Michael Rothberg, “The Implicated Subject: Beyond Victims and Perpetrators”
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It really bothers me how often trauma recovery narratives are, broadly speaking, so *nice*.
And it concerns me that some therapists may be expecting *nice* clients who will steadily work towards vulnerability and not give them too hard a time.
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And it concerns me that some therapists may be expecting *nice* clients who will steadily work towards vulnerability and not give them too hard a time.
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November 28, 2025 at 5:37 PM
It really bothers me how often trauma recovery narratives are, broadly speaking, so *nice*.
And it concerns me that some therapists may be expecting *nice* clients who will steadily work towards vulnerability and not give them too hard a time.
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And it concerns me that some therapists may be expecting *nice* clients who will steadily work towards vulnerability and not give them too hard a time.
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Lew Aron discusses the roles of mutuality and symmetry in therapy. I believe that these factors are not discussed nearly enough in therapy, and that they play especially important roles in therapy featuring cross-cultural dyads. Forgive me a long quote from Aron: "I prefer to define ...
November 25, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Lew Aron discusses the roles of mutuality and symmetry in therapy. I believe that these factors are not discussed nearly enough in therapy, and that they play especially important roles in therapy featuring cross-cultural dyads. Forgive me a long quote from Aron: "I prefer to define ...
It would probably be faster to name which I have not seen live.
November 20, 2025 at 11:38 PM
It would probably be faster to name which I have not seen live.
You find it's October
And she's gone
And she's gone
Summer's gone
You've been fooled by April
And he's gone
And he's gone
Winter's gone
And she's gone
And she's gone
Summer's gone
You've been fooled by April
And he's gone
And he's gone
Winter's gone
November 4, 2025 at 5:12 AM
You find it's October
And she's gone
And she's gone
Summer's gone
You've been fooled by April
And he's gone
And he's gone
Winter's gone
And she's gone
And she's gone
Summer's gone
You've been fooled by April
And he's gone
And he's gone
Winter's gone
I do not love the word healing regarding psychology. We are complex, overdetermined creatures whose pain & suffering shape us. I would undo many if I could, but I do not heal from them as much as I attempt to integrate my hurt in ways that provide enrichment to my life.
November 4, 2025 at 5:11 AM
I do not love the word healing regarding psychology. We are complex, overdetermined creatures whose pain & suffering shape us. I would undo many if I could, but I do not heal from them as much as I attempt to integrate my hurt in ways that provide enrichment to my life.
I have things in my life which are rewarding and enriching, but all my experiences provide meaning. The painful ones, although unpleasant, dialectically inform the joyful moments, all providing meaning and a sort of purpose.
November 4, 2025 at 5:09 AM
I have things in my life which are rewarding and enriching, but all my experiences provide meaning. The painful ones, although unpleasant, dialectically inform the joyful moments, all providing meaning and a sort of purpose.
Overcoming the limitations of the zip code I was born in, and accomplishing the things my parents made tremendous sacrifices to provide. And trying my best to be compassionate along the way.
November 4, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Overcoming the limitations of the zip code I was born in, and accomplishing the things my parents made tremendous sacrifices to provide. And trying my best to be compassionate along the way.
A particular hope that I have about a person.
November 4, 2025 at 5:06 AM
A particular hope that I have about a person.
More than what serves me. I care so much that it forces me to be in service to others as a clinician, teacher, partner, father, and son. It propels me to more rigorous study and introspection, and helps drive a desire to be exceptional. It can also be overly critical and deferential.
November 4, 2025 at 5:05 AM
More than what serves me. I care so much that it forces me to be in service to others as a clinician, teacher, partner, father, and son. It propels me to more rigorous study and introspection, and helps drive a desire to be exceptional. It can also be overly critical and deferential.
One thing my decades of work in clinical psychology has shown me is that we all hide parts of ourselves, from others, and from ourselves as well.
November 4, 2025 at 5:04 AM
One thing my decades of work in clinical psychology has shown me is that we all hide parts of ourselves, from others, and from ourselves as well.
Sincerity, companionship, openness, receptivity, trust.
November 4, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Sincerity, companionship, openness, receptivity, trust.
My experience in therapy has been more ontological than epistemological. I have come more fully into myself partially through the process of therapy.
November 4, 2025 at 5:02 AM
My experience in therapy has been more ontological than epistemological. I have come more fully into myself partially through the process of therapy.
I am a clinical psychologist. My own therapy is critical to my work.
November 4, 2025 at 5:01 AM
I am a clinical psychologist. My own therapy is critical to my work.
I am always me although it is a struggle, I try and appreciate that even brief dissociative moments are an aspect of my self, that I have no monita subjectivity but contain multitudes which are constantly shifting, forming, reforming, deforming, and moving with fluidity and intersectionality.
November 4, 2025 at 5:00 AM
I am always me although it is a struggle, I try and appreciate that even brief dissociative moments are an aspect of my self, that I have no monita subjectivity but contain multitudes which are constantly shifting, forming, reforming, deforming, and moving with fluidity and intersectionality.
Today. It wasn’t sadness per se, but more of a malaise that momentarily passed.
November 4, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Today. It wasn’t sadness per se, but more of a malaise that momentarily passed.
The thing that causes emotionally impulsive experience of anger, frustration, or upset the most significantly is anyone disrespecting my son.
November 4, 2025 at 4:57 AM
The thing that causes emotionally impulsive experience of anger, frustration, or upset the most significantly is anyone disrespecting my son.
Some of the things that contribute to our overall psychological wellbeing which are ignored are sleep and diet. Our violently neoliberal and caste social culture in the US are major contributors, and also don’t help sleep or diet.
November 4, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Some of the things that contribute to our overall psychological wellbeing which are ignored are sleep and diet. Our violently neoliberal and caste social culture in the US are major contributors, and also don’t help sleep or diet.
My most acute moments of emotional distress and dysregulation were in my early 20s and following my divorce and separation.
November 4, 2025 at 4:55 AM
My most acute moments of emotional distress and dysregulation were in my early 20s and following my divorce and separation.
Improved? I go back to the idea of not knowing what mental health means. The things that enrich my life and provide me with meaning are my son, friends, partner, parents, work, music, reading and exercise.
November 4, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Improved? I go back to the idea of not knowing what mental health means. The things that enrich my life and provide me with meaning are my son, friends, partner, parents, work, music, reading and exercise.
I don’t like the phrase “mental health.” What’s my overall mood? Do I feel mentally stable? Am I clinically depressed or psychotic? What does it mean? I would say that my life is overall good with tolerable challenges and inexperience a normal, regulated, wide range of emotional experiences.
November 4, 2025 at 4:53 AM
I don’t like the phrase “mental health.” What’s my overall mood? Do I feel mentally stable? Am I clinically depressed or psychotic? What does it mean? I would say that my life is overall good with tolerable challenges and inexperience a normal, regulated, wide range of emotional experiences.
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This is one of the pieces I'm most proud of writing. Joni Mitchell even included it in her website's media archive. 😉
Happy 50th Anniversary to Joni Mitchell's seventh studio album ‘The Hissing of Summer Lawns’ originally released in November 1975 | Read our tribute by @markchappelle.bsky.social + listen to the album here: album.ink/JMitchellHOSL
Joni Mitchell’s ‘The Hissing of Summer Lawns’ Turns 50 | Album Anniversary
It didn’t matter to Mitchell that her seventh studio album’s esoteric lean made choosing a single nearly impossible at the time. This was the album she wanted to make.
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November 1, 2025 at 5:55 PM
This is one of the pieces I'm most proud of writing. Joni Mitchell even included it in her website's media archive. 😉