Freudian Slippers
@freudianslippers.bsky.social
Clinical Psychologist. Wannabe psychoanalyst.
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When you're living with a chronic condition, continuity of care helps to contain anxiety- when you know there'll be a reassuring response in the event of inevitable flare ups. The ongoing relationship IS the intervention.
Services can't offer this anymore, & there's increased anxiety throughout.
Services can't offer this anymore, & there's increased anxiety throughout.
November 25, 2025 at 7:47 AM
When you're living with a chronic condition, continuity of care helps to contain anxiety- when you know there'll be a reassuring response in the event of inevitable flare ups. The ongoing relationship IS the intervention.
Services can't offer this anymore, & there's increased anxiety throughout.
Services can't offer this anymore, & there's increased anxiety throughout.
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who benefits when you cheat yourself?
"Students can use AI to replace the previously irreplaceable: studying w friends, learning from professors, + putting their thoughts into writing. The gray area of cheating not the system but themselves."
thenewjournalatyale.com/2025/10/insi...
"Students can use AI to replace the previously irreplaceable: studying w friends, learning from professors, + putting their thoughts into writing. The gray area of cheating not the system but themselves."
thenewjournalatyale.com/2025/10/insi...
Inside Yale’s Quiet Reckoning with AI | The New Journal
Amid ChatGPT's rising popularity and a computer science cheating scandal, Yale students, professors, and administrators wrestle privately with the proper role of AI in education. What happens when eve...
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November 17, 2025 at 12:23 PM
who benefits when you cheat yourself?
"Students can use AI to replace the previously irreplaceable: studying w friends, learning from professors, + putting their thoughts into writing. The gray area of cheating not the system but themselves."
thenewjournalatyale.com/2025/10/insi...
"Students can use AI to replace the previously irreplaceable: studying w friends, learning from professors, + putting their thoughts into writing. The gray area of cheating not the system but themselves."
thenewjournalatyale.com/2025/10/insi...
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New publication! ✨
Remember Jonah Hill asking Sarah Brady to stop modeling to respect his “boundaries”? Or an abusive boss recommending mindfulness after your complaints?
@almagro.bsky.social and I are now ready to tell you when and why therapy-speak might be wrong.
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Remember Jonah Hill asking Sarah Brady to stop modeling to respect his “boundaries”? Or an abusive boss recommending mindfulness after your complaints?
@almagro.bsky.social and I are now ready to tell you when and why therapy-speak might be wrong.
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October 1, 2025 at 2:15 PM
New publication! ✨
Remember Jonah Hill asking Sarah Brady to stop modeling to respect his “boundaries”? Or an abusive boss recommending mindfulness after your complaints?
@almagro.bsky.social and I are now ready to tell you when and why therapy-speak might be wrong.
🔓Link in reply
Remember Jonah Hill asking Sarah Brady to stop modeling to respect his “boundaries”? Or an abusive boss recommending mindfulness after your complaints?
@almagro.bsky.social and I are now ready to tell you when and why therapy-speak might be wrong.
🔓Link in reply
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I'm really excited to finally be able to share this after months of work - our new Project EPIC report on the epistemic determinants of health. With over 20 contributors, we make the case for incorporating this new framework into existing determinants of health models:
bci-hub.org/documents/ep...
bci-hub.org/documents/ep...
The Epistemic Determinants of Health
Health and illness are significantly determined by knowledge and its communication. At first glance, this might seem obvious; people use healthcare systems when they suspect that something might be wr...
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October 21, 2025 at 1:07 PM
I'm really excited to finally be able to share this after months of work - our new Project EPIC report on the epistemic determinants of health. With over 20 contributors, we make the case for incorporating this new framework into existing determinants of health models:
bci-hub.org/documents/ep...
bci-hub.org/documents/ep...
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From Here to Humility
Guest post by @bitesizetherapy.bsky.social on the foundational importance of humility in psychotherapy
At every stage, a clinician must be willing to acknowledge that they do not have all the answers
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/from-here-...
Guest post by @bitesizetherapy.bsky.social on the foundational importance of humility in psychotherapy
At every stage, a clinician must be willing to acknowledge that they do not have all the answers
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/from-here-...
From Here to Humility
At every stage, a clinician must be willing to acknowledge that they do not have all the answers
www.psychiatrymargins.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:29 PM
From Here to Humility
Guest post by @bitesizetherapy.bsky.social on the foundational importance of humility in psychotherapy
At every stage, a clinician must be willing to acknowledge that they do not have all the answers
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/from-here-...
Guest post by @bitesizetherapy.bsky.social on the foundational importance of humility in psychotherapy
At every stage, a clinician must be willing to acknowledge that they do not have all the answers
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/from-here-...
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"all lectures, assignments, feedback, and grades will be made by me without AI, nor will any of your intellectual property be fed to tools that train AI. Ideas are social, so let’s make them together. "
against-a-i.com/syllabus-lan...
against-a-i.com/syllabus-lan...
November 2, 2025 at 1:32 PM
"all lectures, assignments, feedback, and grades will be made by me without AI, nor will any of your intellectual property be fed to tools that train AI. Ideas are social, so let’s make them together. "
against-a-i.com/syllabus-lan...
against-a-i.com/syllabus-lan...
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I look at the Health section of the news & there's always the latest 'exciting', 'game changing' breakthrough.
What isnt in the news is how the basic conditions for good quality healthcare are often missing. Infrastructure that supports care, critical thinking, reflection, dialogue, relationships.
What isnt in the news is how the basic conditions for good quality healthcare are often missing. Infrastructure that supports care, critical thinking, reflection, dialogue, relationships.
October 18, 2025 at 8:21 AM
I look at the Health section of the news & there's always the latest 'exciting', 'game changing' breakthrough.
What isnt in the news is how the basic conditions for good quality healthcare are often missing. Infrastructure that supports care, critical thinking, reflection, dialogue, relationships.
What isnt in the news is how the basic conditions for good quality healthcare are often missing. Infrastructure that supports care, critical thinking, reflection, dialogue, relationships.
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Whenever you read anything about workplace culture- like kindness, compassion, relationships, listening, inclusion... is there ever anything new?
We KNOW about all these things.
We don't need more & more information- what we need are conditions which support the ongoing PRACTICE of these things.
We KNOW about all these things.
We don't need more & more information- what we need are conditions which support the ongoing PRACTICE of these things.
September 28, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Whenever you read anything about workplace culture- like kindness, compassion, relationships, listening, inclusion... is there ever anything new?
We KNOW about all these things.
We don't need more & more information- what we need are conditions which support the ongoing PRACTICE of these things.
We KNOW about all these things.
We don't need more & more information- what we need are conditions which support the ongoing PRACTICE of these things.
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Training new clinicians in the age of behavioral treatment and managed care is very challenging and disheartening.
I very much enjoy supervising young clinicians. I appreciate their passion and enthusiasm. It is very difficult, though, because the way in which I practice often seems fundamentally
I very much enjoy supervising young clinicians. I appreciate their passion and enthusiasm. It is very difficult, though, because the way in which I practice often seems fundamentally
September 9, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Training new clinicians in the age of behavioral treatment and managed care is very challenging and disheartening.
I very much enjoy supervising young clinicians. I appreciate their passion and enthusiasm. It is very difficult, though, because the way in which I practice often seems fundamentally
I very much enjoy supervising young clinicians. I appreciate their passion and enthusiasm. It is very difficult, though, because the way in which I practice often seems fundamentally
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‘The resistance story about ourselves is really a fear story about ourselves; it suggests that self-protection is our paramount consideration, and that vulnerability is our primary preoccupation.’
Adam Phillips on why we resist: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Adam Phillips on why we resist: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Adam Phillips · On Resistance
Resistance is at once recognition and a fantasy of catastrophe; indeed, in resisting one has always leaped forward to...
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August 29, 2025 at 9:20 AM
‘The resistance story about ourselves is really a fear story about ourselves; it suggests that self-protection is our paramount consideration, and that vulnerability is our primary preoccupation.’
Adam Phillips on why we resist: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Adam Phillips on why we resist: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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@leahreich.com talking about loneliness resonates for me, because I am reading a ton of Adam Phillips' writing about psychoanalytic thought. I have funny feelings about Freud, but Phillips' writing on Freud makes breathing space for me. One way it does that is ...
www.leahreich.com/suffer-throu...
www.leahreich.com/suffer-throu...
July 20, 2025 at 2:17 AM
@leahreich.com talking about loneliness resonates for me, because I am reading a ton of Adam Phillips' writing about psychoanalytic thought. I have funny feelings about Freud, but Phillips' writing on Freud makes breathing space for me. One way it does that is ...
www.leahreich.com/suffer-throu...
www.leahreich.com/suffer-throu...
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Extraordinary piece of writing by Sophie Elmhirst about an extraordinary case www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ju... (bit late to this but it’s so good)
‘A relentless, destructive energy’: inside the trial of Constance Marten and Mark Gordon
The long read: An intimate account of an unprecedented trial
www.theguardian.com
July 16, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Extraordinary piece of writing by Sophie Elmhirst about an extraordinary case www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ju... (bit late to this but it’s so good)
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Jenny Saville was influenced by feminist theory, but she wouldn’t call her work feminist. “I liked painting a nude body, which was very frowned on in feminist studies—‘Where’s the gaze?,’ ” she said. “That conflict is what made that painting work.”
Jenny Saville, the Body Artist
The British painter has dedicated her career to depicting human flesh, especially that of women, with deep empathy.
www.newyorker.com
June 20, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Jenny Saville was influenced by feminist theory, but she wouldn’t call her work feminist. “I liked painting a nude body, which was very frowned on in feminist studies—‘Where’s the gaze?,’ ” she said. “That conflict is what made that painting work.”
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🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 We talked with @brian-goldstone.bsky.social, author of the phenomenal There is No Place for Us, about the forces pushing ever-more Americans into homelessness and how media and popular narratives about "mental health" mystify the core problem: housing www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...
104: Manufacturing Homelessness feat. Brian Goldstone - Ordinary Unhappiness
Abby and Patrick welcome journalist and anthropologist Brian Goldstone to discuss his new book, There is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America. A devastating and essential read, There...
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June 14, 2025 at 3:14 PM
🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 We talked with @brian-goldstone.bsky.social, author of the phenomenal There is No Place for Us, about the forces pushing ever-more Americans into homelessness and how media and popular narratives about "mental health" mystify the core problem: housing www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...
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This is a wellbeing room in my university.
June 12, 2025 at 8:57 PM
This is a wellbeing room in my university.
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‘The Sienese painters understood better than anyone that art isn’t a spectator sport.’
Erin Maglaque on an exhibition of Sienese painting at the National Gallery:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Erin Maglaque on an exhibition of Sienese painting at the National Gallery:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Erin Maglaque · At the National Gallery: Painting in Siena
Sienese painters adopted forms so distinct from those of their better-known Florentine neighbours that their work was...
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June 9, 2025 at 2:05 PM
‘The Sienese painters understood better than anyone that art isn’t a spectator sport.’
Erin Maglaque on an exhibition of Sienese painting at the National Gallery:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Erin Maglaque on an exhibition of Sienese painting at the National Gallery:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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When psychoanalysis is working, one of the effects can be the analysand experiencing a shift from being captured by an assumed and unexamined fantasy to recognizing the fantasy as a fiction that that does not need to be imposed or enacted as it has thus far.
May 21, 2025 at 11:31 AM
When psychoanalysis is working, one of the effects can be the analysand experiencing a shift from being captured by an assumed and unexamined fantasy to recognizing the fantasy as a fiction that that does not need to be imposed or enacted as it has thus far.
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"The numbers tell us these lessons don’t improve mental health. The qualitative data tells us that many young people don’t like or want them. We need to listen." @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Mental-health lessons in schools sound like a great idea. The trouble is, they don’t work | Lucy Foulkes
All-class therapy sessions don’t help, and may even make matters worse. The evidence shows we need different solutions, says Dr Lucy Foulkes, an academic psychologist at Oxford University
www.theguardian.com
May 20, 2025 at 3:13 PM
"The numbers tell us these lessons don’t improve mental health. The qualitative data tells us that many young people don’t like or want them. We need to listen." @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 It's Part II of our Mailbag Spectacular! We talk fantasies and seductions of "AI"; Trauma Studies; the pain of reading, learning, and existing with Other Minds; psychoanalysis in the classroom; gaming, t̵u̵r̵t̵l̵e̵s̵ tortoises, and much, much more!
101: Mailbag: On Pain, Learning, and the Problem of Other Minds Teaser - Ordinary Unhappiness
Subscribe to get access to the full episode, the episode reading list, and all premium episodes! www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappinessIn the second half of our their hundred-episode Mailbag spectacular,...
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May 17, 2025 at 2:28 PM
🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 It's Part II of our Mailbag Spectacular! We talk fantasies and seductions of "AI"; Trauma Studies; the pain of reading, learning, and existing with Other Minds; psychoanalysis in the classroom; gaming, t̵u̵r̵t̵l̵e̵s̵ tortoises, and much, much more!
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‘His interviews often gave the impression that he thought the church’s hang-ups about sexuality were just that – symptoms of an un-Christlike clerical trend to flee from real humanity.’
James Butler (@piercepenniless.bsky.social) on Pope Francis: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
James Butler (@piercepenniless.bsky.social) on Pope Francis: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
James Butler · Short Cuts: On Pope Francis
Francis’s continual emphasis on mercy – ‘the first attribute of God’ – explains his papal choices more clearly...
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May 8, 2025 at 1:20 PM
‘His interviews often gave the impression that he thought the church’s hang-ups about sexuality were just that – symptoms of an un-Christlike clerical trend to flee from real humanity.’
James Butler (@piercepenniless.bsky.social) on Pope Francis: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
James Butler (@piercepenniless.bsky.social) on Pope Francis: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Talking readies us for change. Thoughts and words are the precursors to deeds; we can approach things in our minds (and in therapeutic conversation) before we approach them in life. Psychotherapy is more than “just talking” - saying something is doing something.
May 6, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Talking readies us for change. Thoughts and words are the precursors to deeds; we can approach things in our minds (and in therapeutic conversation) before we approach them in life. Psychotherapy is more than “just talking” - saying something is doing something.
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Oh man could there be ANYTHING more exciting than Anne Enright on Helen Garner??? Cannot wait to read this.
Anne Enright · I stab and stab: Helen Garner’s Diaries
Like the protagonists of her novels, the writer of these diaries is a resourceful, socially skilled woman who takes...
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April 28, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Oh man could there be ANYTHING more exciting than Anne Enright on Helen Garner??? Cannot wait to read this.
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I had the good fortue tp read this book in manuscript. Historians of women/gender/family/tech/psyche, you won't want to miss it lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...
The Heir Conditioner | Los Angeles Review of Books
The LARB Quarterly, issue no. 44, “Pressure,” presents an excerpt from Hannah Zeavin’s “Mother Media.”
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April 9, 2025 at 8:39 PM
I had the good fortue tp read this book in manuscript. Historians of women/gender/family/tech/psyche, you won't want to miss it lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...