Nadeem Hasan, PsyD
@nadeemhasanpsyd.bsky.social
Psychologist • 🕊️
Growth as a therapist requires the willingness to be uncomfortable.
Studying theory you don’t quite understand, trying interventions you don’t know will work, going in directions where you don’t know where you’ll end up.
Otherwise one’s clinicial vision and repertoire will remain limited.
Studying theory you don’t quite understand, trying interventions you don’t know will work, going in directions where you don’t know where you’ll end up.
Otherwise one’s clinicial vision and repertoire will remain limited.
November 11, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Growth as a therapist requires the willingness to be uncomfortable.
Studying theory you don’t quite understand, trying interventions you don’t know will work, going in directions where you don’t know where you’ll end up.
Otherwise one’s clinicial vision and repertoire will remain limited.
Studying theory you don’t quite understand, trying interventions you don’t know will work, going in directions where you don’t know where you’ll end up.
Otherwise one’s clinicial vision and repertoire will remain limited.
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The hardest, recurring psychological task of my life has been learning to accept the absurdity of existence, to see ambition and achievement for the false gods they are, and to understand, truly understand, how one can flourish in what looks, from the outside, like mediocrity.
November 9, 2025 at 3:08 AM
The hardest, recurring psychological task of my life has been learning to accept the absurdity of existence, to see ambition and achievement for the false gods they are, and to understand, truly understand, how one can flourish in what looks, from the outside, like mediocrity.
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suspecting at least part of the reason why humility is considered a “silent” virtue
is because of its somewhat paradoxical nature
in that the more we (truly) possess it, the less likely we are to know that
and if / when we’re sure we have it, we almost certainly don’t
is because of its somewhat paradoxical nature
in that the more we (truly) possess it, the less likely we are to know that
and if / when we’re sure we have it, we almost certainly don’t
November 6, 2025 at 10:53 PM
suspecting at least part of the reason why humility is considered a “silent” virtue
is because of its somewhat paradoxical nature
in that the more we (truly) possess it, the less likely we are to know that
and if / when we’re sure we have it, we almost certainly don’t
is because of its somewhat paradoxical nature
in that the more we (truly) possess it, the less likely we are to know that
and if / when we’re sure we have it, we almost certainly don’t
Rupture/repair as exposure:
The worst relational fears can be survivable and one doesn’t have to shrink to prevent these fears from materializing so much in the future.
The ground is more solid than anticipated & there’s more room to be oneself.
There’s more room for authenticity & intimacy.
The worst relational fears can be survivable and one doesn’t have to shrink to prevent these fears from materializing so much in the future.
The ground is more solid than anticipated & there’s more room to be oneself.
There’s more room for authenticity & intimacy.
November 5, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Rupture/repair as exposure:
The worst relational fears can be survivable and one doesn’t have to shrink to prevent these fears from materializing so much in the future.
The ground is more solid than anticipated & there’s more room to be oneself.
There’s more room for authenticity & intimacy.
The worst relational fears can be survivable and one doesn’t have to shrink to prevent these fears from materializing so much in the future.
The ground is more solid than anticipated & there’s more room to be oneself.
There’s more room for authenticity & intimacy.
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Truly humble people, I suspect, never describe themselves as such; rather, they worry about their own pride, arrogance, and hubris.
- Donna Orange
- Donna Orange
November 1, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Truly humble people, I suspect, never describe themselves as such; rather, they worry about their own pride, arrogance, and hubris.
- Donna Orange
- Donna Orange
Anxiety can be secondary to guilt.
It's hard to feel settled if there's a fear that one has always done something wrong.
Understanding this inclination can help differentiate one's moral compass from a hypervigilance organized around a vague sense of badness.
It's hard to feel settled if there's a fear that one has always done something wrong.
Understanding this inclination can help differentiate one's moral compass from a hypervigilance organized around a vague sense of badness.
September 17, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Anxiety can be secondary to guilt.
It's hard to feel settled if there's a fear that one has always done something wrong.
Understanding this inclination can help differentiate one's moral compass from a hypervigilance organized around a vague sense of badness.
It's hard to feel settled if there's a fear that one has always done something wrong.
Understanding this inclination can help differentiate one's moral compass from a hypervigilance organized around a vague sense of badness.
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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
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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
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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
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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 10, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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I think these dynamics become more deeply problematic with marginalized patients. The powerful therapist, perched high atop their place of privilege and knowing, bestows wisdom upon the simple fool unable to educated themself. As Gherovici often repeats, even the poor can afford an unconscious.
September 9, 2025 at 10:58 PM
I think these dynamics become more deeply problematic with marginalized patients. The powerful therapist, perched high atop their place of privilege and knowing, bestows wisdom upon the simple fool unable to educated themself. As Gherovici often repeats, even the poor can afford an unconscious.
Healthy groups don’t demand conformity to belong.
September 6, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Healthy groups don’t demand conformity to belong.
‘Every analytic pair is engaged from the outset in the task of creating a way of talking together that is adequate to give expression both to the patient's fear of the truth and to the patient's need to know the truth of his or her experience.’
September 4, 2025 at 9:13 PM
‘Every analytic pair is engaged from the outset in the task of creating a way of talking together that is adequate to give expression both to the patient's fear of the truth and to the patient's need to know the truth of his or her experience.’
I’m happy to share that I’ve started my own private practice. I’ll be seeing individuals virtually anywhere in CA.
Feel free to check out my website for more info and to connect.
www.nadeemhasanpsyd.com
Feel free to check out my website for more info and to connect.
www.nadeemhasanpsyd.com
Nadeem Hasan, Psy.D.
Nadeem Hasan, Licensed Clinical Psychologist
www.nadeemhasanpsyd.com
August 28, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I’m happy to share that I’ve started my own private practice. I’ll be seeing individuals virtually anywhere in CA.
Feel free to check out my website for more info and to connect.
www.nadeemhasanpsyd.com
Feel free to check out my website for more info and to connect.
www.nadeemhasanpsyd.com
Sam to Michael in The Big Chill, 1983
August 25, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Sam to Michael in The Big Chill, 1983
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“A rigid allegiance to one or the other type of analytic thinking can narrow the way one listens to the patient. Worse, it can lead to a situation where the analyst does not listen at all because his theory offers him a prepackaged and formulaic understanding.”
- Akhtar, S. (2012).
- Akhtar, S. (2012).
August 17, 2025 at 2:29 PM
“A rigid allegiance to one or the other type of analytic thinking can narrow the way one listens to the patient. Worse, it can lead to a situation where the analyst does not listen at all because his theory offers him a prepackaged and formulaic understanding.”
- Akhtar, S. (2012).
- Akhtar, S. (2012).
The foolish reject what they see, not what they think.
The wise reject what they think, not what they see.
Huang Po
The wise reject what they think, not what they see.
Huang Po
August 14, 2025 at 12:27 AM
The foolish reject what they see, not what they think.
The wise reject what they think, not what they see.
Huang Po
The wise reject what they think, not what they see.
Huang Po
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#LRP it would be unfortunate indeed for patients
if health care providers were unable to conceptualize any role for the current political climate in the etiology of whatever they were treating
because of the privilege afforded them by their race, gender identity, sexuality, and/or citizenship
if health care providers were unable to conceptualize any role for the current political climate in the etiology of whatever they were treating
because of the privilege afforded them by their race, gender identity, sexuality, and/or citizenship
August 12, 2025 at 11:51 AM
#LRP it would be unfortunate indeed for patients
if health care providers were unable to conceptualize any role for the current political climate in the etiology of whatever they were treating
because of the privilege afforded them by their race, gender identity, sexuality, and/or citizenship
if health care providers were unable to conceptualize any role for the current political climate in the etiology of whatever they were treating
because of the privilege afforded them by their race, gender identity, sexuality, and/or citizenship
🧵Our clients can often tell how comfortable we are in feeling, receiving, and discussing different topics.
Whether they sense their grief might be met with empathy & understanding.
Whether they sense their grief might be met with empathy & understanding.
August 12, 2025 at 4:18 PM
🧵Our clients can often tell how comfortable we are in feeling, receiving, and discussing different topics.
Whether they sense their grief might be met with empathy & understanding.
Whether they sense their grief might be met with empathy & understanding.
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the sense in which relational trauma can be significantly remitted by a number of modalities
but can only be cured by relationship
but can only be cured by relationship
August 10, 2025 at 10:03 PM
the sense in which relational trauma can be significantly remitted by a number of modalities
but can only be cured by relationship
but can only be cured by relationship
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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 2:17 PM
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
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“In this world … sin that pays its way can travel freely and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.”
- Herman Melville
- Herman Melville
August 3, 2025 at 3:25 PM
“In this world … sin that pays its way can travel freely and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.”
- Herman Melville
- Herman Melville
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Harry Stack Sullivan is purported to have said, “God keep me from a clever psychoanalyst!” Truly, humility is the beginning of wisdom.
- Edgar Levenson
- Edgar Levenson
August 3, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Harry Stack Sullivan is purported to have said, “God keep me from a clever psychoanalyst!” Truly, humility is the beginning of wisdom.
- Edgar Levenson
- Edgar Levenson
Most gossip is envy in disguise.
Matt Haig
Matt Haig
August 2, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Most gossip is envy in disguise.
Matt Haig
Matt Haig
Visionaries see beyond the ideologies of our time.
August 2, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Visionaries see beyond the ideologies of our time.
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I've told this story before; my [white cishet well-resourced] ex-therapist once made a comment that I "might be happier if I didn't talk about hot button issues" on SM like race/sexuality/gender/etc. It came across as so dismissive to me &my actual life, much as I'm sure he was trying to be useful
This is why generic guidelines about questions such as how much news one should watch or time spent on social media can come across as vapid or superficial.
July 30, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I've told this story before; my [white cishet well-resourced] ex-therapist once made a comment that I "might be happier if I didn't talk about hot button issues" on SM like race/sexuality/gender/etc. It came across as so dismissive to me &my actual life, much as I'm sure he was trying to be useful
🧵Clinical psychology is different than other medical professions, in part, because there’s an honoring of the individual’s will & values.
While these factors play apart in medicine more broadly, thoughtful therapists consider cultural, values, & agency when thinking about a patient’s mental health.
While these factors play apart in medicine more broadly, thoughtful therapists consider cultural, values, & agency when thinking about a patient’s mental health.
July 30, 2025 at 3:48 PM
🧵Clinical psychology is different than other medical professions, in part, because there’s an honoring of the individual’s will & values.
While these factors play apart in medicine more broadly, thoughtful therapists consider cultural, values, & agency when thinking about a patient’s mental health.
While these factors play apart in medicine more broadly, thoughtful therapists consider cultural, values, & agency when thinking about a patient’s mental health.