David Pocock
@dpocock.bsky.social
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist and Systemic Family Therapist. Series Editor Palgrave Texts in Counselling and Psychotherapy
New book https://link.springer.com/book/9783031763083
New book https://link.springer.com/book/9783031763083
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David Pocock
@dpocock.bsky.social
· Jan 3
Expanding the Limits of Individual and Family Therapies
This book uses a critical realist framework to help both individual and family therapists create more nuanced relationships in practice.
link.springer.com
Published this week, my new book - Expanding the Limits of Individual and Family Therapies: A Critical Realist Approach. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Reality: Brexit's a disaster.
Labour Apologist: The EU don't want us back.
Reality: Here's the EU saying they want us back.
Labour Apologist: Brits don't want to rejoin.
Reality: Here are polls showing people want to rejoin.
Labour Apologist: We must be patient.
Reality: We've been waiting 9 years!
Labour Apologist: The EU don't want us back.
Reality: Here's the EU saying they want us back.
Labour Apologist: Brits don't want to rejoin.
Reality: Here are polls showing people want to rejoin.
Labour Apologist: We must be patient.
Reality: We've been waiting 9 years!
a man is laying his head on a desk with his hands on the desk .
ALT: a man is laying his head on a desk with his hands on the desk .
media.tenor.com
October 15, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Reality: Brexit's a disaster.
Labour Apologist: The EU don't want us back.
Reality: Here's the EU saying they want us back.
Labour Apologist: Brits don't want to rejoin.
Reality: Here are polls showing people want to rejoin.
Labour Apologist: We must be patient.
Reality: We've been waiting 9 years!
Labour Apologist: The EU don't want us back.
Reality: Here's the EU saying they want us back.
Labour Apologist: Brits don't want to rejoin.
Reality: Here are polls showing people want to rejoin.
Labour Apologist: We must be patient.
Reality: We've been waiting 9 years!
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“After all research on psychotherapy is accounted for, psychotherapy still resolves itself into a relationship best subsumed by the word love”
- Arthur Burton (1967)
#psychotherapy #humanisticpsychology
- Arthur Burton (1967)
#psychotherapy #humanisticpsychology
October 6, 2025 at 3:43 PM
“After all research on psychotherapy is accounted for, psychotherapy still resolves itself into a relationship best subsumed by the word love”
- Arthur Burton (1967)
#psychotherapy #humanisticpsychology
- Arthur Burton (1967)
#psychotherapy #humanisticpsychology
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Jimmy Kimmel's Monologue now has 14.3 MILLION VIEWS on YouTube.
It would be a shame for you to share it
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tj...
It would be a shame for you to share it
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tj...
Jimmy Kimmel is Back!
YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live
www.youtube.com
September 24, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Jimmy Kimmel's Monologue now has 14.3 MILLION VIEWS on YouTube.
It would be a shame for you to share it
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tj...
It would be a shame for you to share it
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tj...
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1/3
Some of my favorite quotes speak to the paradoxes inherent in psychotherapy:
If the analyst cannot be experienced as a new object, analysis never gets under way; if he cannot be experienced as an old one, it never ends.
- Jay Greenberg
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Some of my favorite quotes speak to the paradoxes inherent in psychotherapy:
If the analyst cannot be experienced as a new object, analysis never gets under way; if he cannot be experienced as an old one, it never ends.
- Jay Greenberg
September 13, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Some of my favorite quotes speak to the paradoxes inherent in psychotherapy:
If the analyst cannot be experienced as a new object, analysis never gets under way; if he cannot be experienced as an old one, it never ends.
- Jay Greenberg
1/3
Some of my favorite quotes speak to the paradoxes inherent in psychotherapy:
If the analyst cannot be experienced as a new object, analysis never gets under way; if he cannot be experienced as an old one, it never ends.
- Jay Greenberg
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“His [Bion’s] tendency to leave space for people to think for themselves seemed evasive to some, or purposefully confusing, and others wondered if he was psychotic.”
- Reiner, A. (2023).
- Reiner, A. (2023).
August 28, 2025 at 6:11 PM
“His [Bion’s] tendency to leave space for people to think for themselves seemed evasive to some, or purposefully confusing, and others wondered if he was psychotic.”
- Reiner, A. (2023).
- Reiner, A. (2023).
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Depth psychology, because being human is more profound than the shallows of its symptoms.
August 18, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Depth psychology, because being human is more profound than the shallows of its symptoms.
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
- Michael Karson
August 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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There is nothing wrong with being a Freudian, a relationalist, an interpersonalist, a self psychologist, or whatever, as long as one does not succumb to the delusion that their school has a monopoly on truth and there is nothing to be learned from other approaches.
- Arnold Richards
- Arnold Richards
August 4, 2025 at 2:55 PM
There is nothing wrong with being a Freudian, a relationalist, an interpersonalist, a self psychologist, or whatever, as long as one does not succumb to the delusion that their school has a monopoly on truth and there is nothing to be learned from other approaches.
- Arnold Richards
- Arnold Richards
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I have loved EE Cummings’ poem “I Sing of Olaf Glad and Big” since I was 16. He wrote it in 1931. I think of it often these days - words to fucking live by.
August 2, 2025 at 8:12 AM
I have loved EE Cummings’ poem “I Sing of Olaf Glad and Big” since I was 16. He wrote it in 1931. I think of it often these days - words to fucking live by.
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If we believed women, we wouldn't need the list.
Let that sink in.
Let that sink in.
July 18, 2025 at 9:29 AM
If we believed women, we wouldn't need the list.
Let that sink in.
Let that sink in.
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Underrated tweet.
July 17, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Underrated tweet.
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2125: Brontë country is a wilderness of mesquite, cactus and tumbleweed, with average daily temperatures of 40 degrees. “But at least we stopped the wind turbines”.
Ed Miliband would let a turbine farm destroy Brontë country. We need net zero, but at what cost? | Simon Jenkins
Ed Miliband would let a turbine farm destroy Brontë country. We need net zero, but at what cost? | Simon Jenkins
Of course the climate crisis must be confronted, but history, tranquility and beauty must also count for something, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins
www.theguardian.com
July 14, 2025 at 7:34 AM
2125: Brontë country is a wilderness of mesquite, cactus and tumbleweed, with average daily temperatures of 40 degrees. “But at least we stopped the wind turbines”.
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30 years on, I honour the Bosniak boys and men who were victims of the Srebrenica genocide.
I also honour the mothers who carry the weight of that loss for decades.
We must remember and preserve the truth, so that future generations know exactly what happened in Srebrenica.
→ europa.eu/!yJYgpw
I also honour the mothers who carry the weight of that loss for decades.
We must remember and preserve the truth, so that future generations know exactly what happened in Srebrenica.
→ europa.eu/!yJYgpw
July 11, 2025 at 10:10 AM
30 years on, I honour the Bosniak boys and men who were victims of the Srebrenica genocide.
I also honour the mothers who carry the weight of that loss for decades.
We must remember and preserve the truth, so that future generations know exactly what happened in Srebrenica.
→ europa.eu/!yJYgpw
I also honour the mothers who carry the weight of that loss for decades.
We must remember and preserve the truth, so that future generations know exactly what happened in Srebrenica.
→ europa.eu/!yJYgpw
'Expanding the Limits ...' back on offer by Palgrave at £13.99 for the eBook.
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Expanding the Limits of Individual and Family Therapies
This book uses a critical realist framework to help both individual and family therapists create more nuanced relationships in practice.
link.springer.com
July 10, 2025 at 10:01 AM
'Expanding the Limits ...' back on offer by Palgrave at £13.99 for the eBook.
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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What has that Keir Starmer ever done for us ...?
July 5, 2025 at 3:34 PM
What has that Keir Starmer ever done for us ...?
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I still struggle with the reality that the USA have become so incredibly cruel to its own people
July 1, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I still struggle with the reality that the USA have become so incredibly cruel to its own people
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Very pleased that my paper 'Segmenting Ontology' is out in Synthese doi.org/10.1007/s112... On the relationship between quantum, material and social reality.
Segmenting ontology - Synthese
Ontological universalism is widespread, but this paper argues that the validity of many ontological claims is bounded, and thus that segmented (though not fragmented) ontologies may represent the worl...
doi.org
July 1, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Very pleased that my paper 'Segmenting Ontology' is out in Synthese doi.org/10.1007/s112... On the relationship between quantum, material and social reality.
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Hungary banned pride and anything having to do with homosexuality. In response the country responded with the biggest pride protest in modern history. Orban is cooked. #3E
June 28, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Hungary banned pride and anything having to do with homosexuality. In response the country responded with the biggest pride protest in modern history. Orban is cooked. #3E
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Still true:
*Britain is a success story
*Most of its cities are doing astonishingly well
*Multiculturalism is popular
*Mass immigration has not led to social disintegration
*Nostalgia is increasingly weird
*Britain is incredibly safe
*Levels of social cohesion are high
Don't let them gaslight you.
*Britain is a success story
*Most of its cities are doing astonishingly well
*Multiculturalism is popular
*Mass immigration has not led to social disintegration
*Nostalgia is increasingly weird
*Britain is incredibly safe
*Levels of social cohesion are high
Don't let them gaslight you.
June 20, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Still true:
*Britain is a success story
*Most of its cities are doing astonishingly well
*Multiculturalism is popular
*Mass immigration has not led to social disintegration
*Nostalgia is increasingly weird
*Britain is incredibly safe
*Levels of social cohesion are high
Don't let them gaslight you.
*Britain is a success story
*Most of its cities are doing astonishingly well
*Multiculturalism is popular
*Mass immigration has not led to social disintegration
*Nostalgia is increasingly weird
*Britain is incredibly safe
*Levels of social cohesion are high
Don't let them gaslight you.
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Any therapist whose idea of "therapy" is a manualized ABC checklist can and will be replaced with AI. Psychotherapists who provide relational psychodynamic, humanistic, and existential psychotherapy will continue to flourish, because they base the work on their own humanity.
June 18, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Any therapist whose idea of "therapy" is a manualized ABC checklist can and will be replaced with AI. Psychotherapists who provide relational psychodynamic, humanistic, and existential psychotherapy will continue to flourish, because they base the work on their own humanity.
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WATCH: Sen. Padilla pushed to the ground, handcuffed for demanding DHS not lie
June 12, 2025 at 8:11 PM
WATCH: Sen. Padilla pushed to the ground, handcuffed for demanding DHS not lie
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“Starmer's EU deal is a big break in the suffocating Brexit consensus that has held Britain back for a decade. For the first time a UK government is doing things to actually undo the damage of Brexit, rather than increase it. For that alone it should be welcomed” 👏
bylinetimes.com/2025/05/19/k...
bylinetimes.com/2025/05/19/k...
Keir Starmer's EU Reset Deal Is the First Crack in the Brexit Wall Holding Britain Back
This agreement marks the beginning of the end of the suffocating Brexit consensus that has gripped British politics for a decade, argues Adam Bienkov
bylinetimes.com
May 19, 2025 at 2:26 PM
“Starmer's EU deal is a big break in the suffocating Brexit consensus that has held Britain back for a decade. For the first time a UK government is doing things to actually undo the damage of Brexit, rather than increase it. For that alone it should be welcomed” 👏
bylinetimes.com/2025/05/19/k...
bylinetimes.com/2025/05/19/k...