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Unbelievable. Donald Trump has been invited to a state visit to the UK. We should not be rolling out the red carpet to celebrate this man. Agree? Add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no...

'Inner equanimity stems from knowing that it is not things that disturb us, but our interpretation of things.' Irvin Yalom, Staring at the Sun

This always resonates with one of my favourite poems, 'Invictus' by W.E.Henley, the last verse of which has helped me many times when life has been tough.

'As my study of theory progressed it was gradually borne in upon me that the field I had set to plough so lightheartedly was no less than the one that Freud had started tilling sixty years earlier, and that it contained all those same rocky excrescences and thorny entanglements that he

Meanwhile in the other place insanity continues to reign

'... a developing person strives for individuation, growth and fulfillment of his or her potential. But there is a cost! In emerging, expanding and standing out from nature, an individual encounters life anxiety, a frightening loneliness...' Irvin Yalom, Staring at the Sun. #anxiety #loneliness

Too many autistic students are imploding from autistic burnout and lack of accommodations for different learning needs. "If only schools had a space where students could step out & say 'I can breathe here, I can take time out'."

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W.F.Bach and R.D.Laing between client appointments. A new happy place for me!

I haven't read this book for around 19 years (when I started my therapy training). Amazing how a book written in the 1950's is still so relevant to modern psychotherapy in the 21st century.

I love old books! Just wondering about the journey this wonderful book has been on to find its way into my office on the other side of the Atlantic makes me very happy!

#Newyork #books #journeys #1965

'Existential phenomenology attempts to characterise the nature of a person's experience of his world and himself.'

An eternal truth, if we don't understand the other person's experience and their internal world, how can we help them heal and grow?

#psychotherapy #counselling #mentalhealth #rdlaing

I suppose I don't talk about my autism that much, but I can completely understand this. I have a carefully built mask I have to maintain and wear whenever I'm dealing with people I'm not comfortable with and its a constant drain and stress. The urge to isolate and vegetate is often strong.

‘It is not merely that we, the audience, may be hypnotized by what leaders say, but rather that they may well be under their own spell, weaving a delusion with their words to further insulate themselves from reality.'

Read Jamieson Webster's essay here: bit.ly/4ioe6Ye
LARB Quarterly

#freud

Autistic creator Ashley Storrie's lauded series Dinosaur has "great charm and unassuming depth, with a sharply observed running theme about the unseen but relentless daily accommodations that neurodiverse people have to make to exist in the neurotypical world."

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First ever Bluesky post and I am pushing a blog I wrote a couple of weeks ago. I think it might be better recieved on here than on most other social media platyforms!

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