Professor William Sharp
@drwilliamsharp.bsky.social
Psychoanalyst and group psychotherapist
Professor of psychology, at Northeastern University & Supervising/Training Analyst-Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis
Professor of psychology, at Northeastern University & Supervising/Training Analyst-Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis
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.
If I wasn’t an analyst, I’d probably be an existentialist.
November 20, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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.
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.
November 17, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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
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
November 15, 2025 at 11:39 AM
#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
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.
November 11, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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.
“…[antisemitism] had hardly been noticed by either learned or public opinion because [it] belonged to a subterranean stream of European history where, hidden from the light of the public & the attention of the enlightened, [it] had been able to gather an entirely unexpected violence.“p7 Arendt
November 11, 2025 at 1:30 PM
“…[antisemitism] had hardly been noticed by either learned or public opinion because [it] belonged to a subterranean stream of European history where, hidden from the light of the public & the attention of the enlightened, [it] had been able to gather an entirely unexpected violence.“p7 Arendt
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.
November 10, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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.
4. Don't make comments related to the absence or failure of the father or other separating figure in the psychotic's life history.
November 10, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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.
4. Don't make comments related to the absence or failure of the father or other separating figure in the psychotic's life history.
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.
November 10, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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.
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.
November 10, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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.
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.
Tips from this years conference I think Modern Psychoanalysts would agree with… from Bruce Fink #Lacan
Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies
What Not to Do with Psychotics
Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies
What Not to Do with Psychotics
November 10, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Tips from this years conference I think Modern Psychoanalysts would agree with… from Bruce Fink #Lacan
Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies
What Not to Do with Psychotics
Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies
What Not to Do with Psychotics
Had an amazing reunion with my former students @northeasternu.bsky.social while at a conference in New York. Keeps the importance of mentorship and the impact of teaching on future generations. @northeasterncos.bsky.social
November 8, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Had an amazing reunion with my former students @northeasternu.bsky.social while at a conference in New York. Keeps the importance of mentorship and the impact of teaching on future generations. @northeasterncos.bsky.social
Amazing discussions last night at BGSP on Netflix’s, devastating #Adolescence
Aidan McGowan presented a poster from @northeasterncos.bsky.social
And Sahlean and I presented ideas while the audience questioned if this would have been gun violence if set in the US
Aidan McGowan presented a poster from @northeasterncos.bsky.social
And Sahlean and I presented ideas while the audience questioned if this would have been gun violence if set in the US
October 31, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Amazing discussions last night at BGSP on Netflix’s, devastating #Adolescence
Aidan McGowan presented a poster from @northeasterncos.bsky.social
And Sahlean and I presented ideas while the audience questioned if this would have been gun violence if set in the US
Aidan McGowan presented a poster from @northeasterncos.bsky.social
And Sahlean and I presented ideas while the audience questioned if this would have been gun violence if set in the US
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Update from the classroom: multiple class periods spent way too much time trying to explain how the phrase "lowkey" works today and despite all their patience with me I still lowkey don't get it.
October 28, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Update from the classroom: multiple class periods spent way too much time trying to explain how the phrase "lowkey" works today and despite all their patience with me I still lowkey don't get it.
To represent emotion is to expereince it, and once expereinced, it can be experienced again, with less need for distancing the self from it, as it becomes more tolerable and internalized. p112
from Barahona's book- Such a great summary of Learning from Expereince.
from Barahona's book- Such a great summary of Learning from Expereince.
October 21, 2025 at 4:32 PM
To represent emotion is to expereince it, and once expereinced, it can be experienced again, with less need for distancing the self from it, as it becomes more tolerable and internalized. p112
from Barahona's book- Such a great summary of Learning from Expereince.
from Barahona's book- Such a great summary of Learning from Expereince.
"... I became aware of aware of murder enetering the analytic field in an important way. haunting the field between us like our own ghosts, underneath the disguise of my fantastic countertransference feelings and in the whispers [the patient] imagined..." p75 #Psychoanalysis
October 20, 2025 at 9:26 PM
"... I became aware of aware of murder enetering the analytic field in an important way. haunting the field between us like our own ghosts, underneath the disguise of my fantastic countertransference feelings and in the whispers [the patient] imagined..." p75 #Psychoanalysis
October 20, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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.
Great that he used "flower" since so much of this is about #Bion 's poppy flower.
October 19, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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.
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 ...
October 19, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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 ...
"I would like to emphasize here that what I am referring to as T(-H),which involves processses of disinvestment of the representational capacity, is not the passive process that turns of phrases like 'leaves a terrifying emptiness' suggest, but an active process of ...
October 19, 2025 at 1:22 PM
"I would like to emphasize here that what I am referring to as T(-H),which involves processses of disinvestment of the representational capacity, is not the passive process that turns of phrases like 'leaves a terrifying emptiness' suggest, but an active process of ...
The science is real.
October 18, 2025 at 12:37 PM
The science is real.
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Thank you, Andy!
If you have an interest in psychology and how it relates to pop culture, I highly recommend reading any of the books by @drtravislangley.bsky.social and @rocketllama.bsky.social. There is a book about Batman, The Walking Dead, Supernatural, Spider-Man, among others. My fav is this: a.co/d/5D3zKAw
The Joker Psychology: Evil Clowns and the Women Who Love Them (Volume 12) (Popular Culture Psychology)
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October 17, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Thank you, Andy!
Honors in Journal 2 (cont)
Lauren Morenao Manon*
Ella Morse
Megan Ramos
Alisha Saeed
Fazia Shahzed
Alvaro Antonio Tuason
Most popular Freud Findings? "Family is Fundamental - and difficult" and "We are always in a state of conflict"
Lauren Morenao Manon*
Ella Morse
Megan Ramos
Alisha Saeed
Fazia Shahzed
Alvaro Antonio Tuason
Most popular Freud Findings? "Family is Fundamental - and difficult" and "We are always in a state of conflict"
October 15, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Honors in Journal 2 (cont)
Lauren Morenao Manon*
Ella Morse
Megan Ramos
Alisha Saeed
Fazia Shahzed
Alvaro Antonio Tuason
Most popular Freud Findings? "Family is Fundamental - and difficult" and "We are always in a state of conflict"
Lauren Morenao Manon*
Ella Morse
Megan Ramos
Alisha Saeed
Fazia Shahzed
Alvaro Antonio Tuason
Most popular Freud Findings? "Family is Fundamental - and difficult" and "We are always in a state of conflict"