Abbi
@objectascetics.bsky.social
Hairy Anchorite |🌱 Into ecocriticism, (horror) literature, (modern) psychoanalysis, continental philosophy, and dad jokes🍂 | Therapist to be
Expressing that a job as a low-level secretary would make me want to rip out my hair, only to be met with "nobody gets their dream job first try", and not to look down on that kind of work.
November 25, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Expressing that a job as a low-level secretary would make me want to rip out my hair, only to be met with "nobody gets their dream job first try", and not to look down on that kind of work.
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fascinating how the question “what makes a master therapist” seems to evoke as many answers as there are therapists and patients
today mine was the one capable of identifying, in the most awkward, aversive, and socially off-putting behavior
some event or outcome being desperately defended against
today mine was the one capable of identifying, in the most awkward, aversive, and socially off-putting behavior
some event or outcome being desperately defended against
November 25, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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the sense in which “role self” better conveys the adaptive function and usefulness of what Winnicott called the false self
while the original term far better captures the self-deception and self-betrayal involved in the various acts of being untrue to oneself
while the original term far better captures the self-deception and self-betrayal involved in the various acts of being untrue to oneself
November 24, 2025 at 2:59 PM
the sense in which “role self” better conveys the adaptive function and usefulness of what Winnicott called the false self
while the original term far better captures the self-deception and self-betrayal involved in the various acts of being untrue to oneself
while the original term far better captures the self-deception and self-betrayal involved in the various acts of being untrue to oneself
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Eugenics
They want eugenics
They want a new race of “superior humans” which is called Nazi-ass level eugenics
They want eugenics
They want a new race of “superior humans” which is called Nazi-ass level eugenics
Therapies using gene-editing technology are starting to appear. But these treatments have their challenges
Tech billionaires want to make gene-edited babies
Widespread bans don’t seem to be a hindrance
econ.st
November 22, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Eugenics
They want eugenics
They want a new race of “superior humans” which is called Nazi-ass level eugenics
They want eugenics
They want a new race of “superior humans” which is called Nazi-ass level eugenics
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“RCTs or STFU” is its own form of fundamentalist dogma in medicine that is ultimately incoherent and self-serving.
November 22, 2025 at 8:33 PM
“RCTs or STFU” is its own form of fundamentalist dogma in medicine that is ultimately incoherent and self-serving.
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Many advocates of alternatives to established medical care are blatantly dangerous.
This is a heartbreaking article of how things can go wrong.
“Nobody joins a cult willingly. You think you’re joining a great movement.”
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
This is a heartbreaking article of how things can go wrong.
“Nobody joins a cult willingly. You think you’re joining a great movement.”
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Many advocates of alternatives to established medical care are blatantly dangerous.
This is a heartbreaking article of how things can go wrong.
“Nobody joins a cult willingly. You think you’re joining a great movement.”
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
This is a heartbreaking article of how things can go wrong.
“Nobody joins a cult willingly. You think you’re joining a great movement.”
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Ahhh, my heart.
youtu.be/mJccPYV7UGA?...
youtu.be/mJccPYV7UGA?...
Sara Bareilles - Salt Then Sour Then Sweet (Official Lyric Video) ft. Brandi Carlile
YouTube video by SaraBareillesVEVO
youtu.be
November 18, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Ahhh, my heart.
youtu.be/mJccPYV7UGA?...
youtu.be/mJccPYV7UGA?...
This really speaks to a significant difference between my first long-term therapist, who practised CBT with a dash of ST, and my second one, whose approach was ST with a hefty dose of MBT. Night and day in terms of effectiveness.
There is generally a lot of resistance among therapists to the idea of exploring the rupture in the here and now and taking responsibility for the harm done, and yeah, it’s a challenging way of working.
It means being vulnerable with your clients. It means acknowledging the validity of their anger
It means being vulnerable with your clients. It means acknowledging the validity of their anger
November 18, 2025 at 8:34 PM
This really speaks to a significant difference between my first long-term therapist, who practised CBT with a dash of ST, and my second one, whose approach was ST with a hefty dose of MBT. Night and day in terms of effectiveness.
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Thoughts on shame in therapy:
Ime, most psychodynamically trained therapists have been taught to explore the early origins of the client’s pain when expressed toward the therapist.
But importantly, I and many others were not taught that the client’s reaction also belongs in the here and now.
Ime, most psychodynamically trained therapists have been taught to explore the early origins of the client’s pain when expressed toward the therapist.
But importantly, I and many others were not taught that the client’s reaction also belongs in the here and now.
November 17, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Even though no one will be surprised to learn Farage was stunningly racist & antisemitic as a teenager, the details of its extent & viciousness is still shocking. Truly vile examples. Which for me again raises the qn abt the British public school system
‘Deeply shocking’: Nigel Farage faces fresh claims of racism and antisemitism at school
‘Deeply shocking’: Nigel Farage faces fresh claims of racism and antisemitism at school
Bafta-winning director among contemporaries urging contrition and apology from Reform UK leader, who denies the allegations
Portrait: Tom Pilston
It is the hectoring tone, the “jeering quality”, in Nigel Farage’s voice today that brings it all back for Peter Ettedgui. “He would sidle up to me and growl: ‘Hitler was right,’ or ‘Gas them,’ sometimes adding a long hiss to simulate the sound of the gas showers,” Ettedgui says of his experience of being in a class with Farage at Dulwich college in south London.
Ettedgui, 61, is a Bafta- and Emmy-winning director and producer whose credits include Kinky Boots, McQueen and Super/Man: the Christopher Reeve Story. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Even though no one will be surprised to learn Farage was stunningly racist & antisemitic as a teenager, the details of its extent & viciousness is still shocking. Truly vile examples. Which for me again raises the qn abt the British public school system
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I did some (pro bono) work with therapists who had fled Ukraine at the start of the invasion. How important it was to them to hold onto a piece of jewelery or their grandfather's watch. Under proposed legislation, these would be taken from asylum seekers, stripping their identity still further.
November 17, 2025 at 9:57 AM
I did some (pro bono) work with therapists who had fled Ukraine at the start of the invasion. How important it was to them to hold onto a piece of jewelery or their grandfather's watch. Under proposed legislation, these would be taken from asylum seekers, stripping their identity still further.
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Inderdaad, laag en niets ontziend. En bepaalde journalisten werken daar ook aan mee.
November 15, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Inderdaad, laag en niets ontziend. En bepaalde journalisten werken daar ook aan mee.
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Insights occur when a person feels safe to have them.
- Alan Rappoport (1997)
- Alan Rappoport (1997)
November 12, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Insights occur when a person feels safe to have them.
- Alan Rappoport (1997)
- Alan Rappoport (1997)
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ouroboreos
oh wow that’s crazy
oreos with bits of
of oreos. in them
Real Bits of Oreos
oreos with bits of
of oreos. in them
Real Bits of Oreos
November 13, 2025 at 10:13 PM
ouroboreos
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"When individuals cannot plan, they cannot hope. And when they cannot hope, they cannot resist."
Neue Interviewstudie zu den Auswirkungen wissenschaftlichen Prekarität. #IchBinHanna @ngawiss.bsky.social
Neue Interviewstudie zu den Auswirkungen wissenschaftlichen Prekarität. #IchBinHanna @ngawiss.bsky.social
Precarity in the Ivory Tower: Exploring the Challenges of Postdoctoral Researchers in German Higher Education
| Education as Change
unisapressjournals.co.za
November 13, 2025 at 6:06 PM
"When individuals cannot plan, they cannot hope. And when they cannot hope, they cannot resist."
Neue Interviewstudie zu den Auswirkungen wissenschaftlichen Prekarität. #IchBinHanna @ngawiss.bsky.social
Neue Interviewstudie zu den Auswirkungen wissenschaftlichen Prekarität. #IchBinHanna @ngawiss.bsky.social
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I wrote an article about psychiatry and the humanities - more glamorously, about asylums and gothic melodrama - up now @ BMJ Medical Humanities . Check it out! #medhum #psychiatry
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Free link: mh.bmj.com/cgi/rapidpdf...
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Psych ward gothic: melodrama, hospitalisation anxiety and a case for the humanities in psychiatric research
This article offers a critical assessment of representations of psychiatric hospitalisation in modern Western societies, with the goal of informing clinicians’ approach to communication and reassuranc...
mh.bmj.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I wrote an article about psychiatry and the humanities - more glamorously, about asylums and gothic melodrama - up now @ BMJ Medical Humanities . Check it out! #medhum #psychiatry
mh.bmj.com/cgi/content/...
Free link: mh.bmj.com/cgi/rapidpdf...
mh.bmj.com/cgi/content/...
Free link: mh.bmj.com/cgi/rapidpdf...
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Het is feitelijk juist dat zeliegtdöz
Als je in dit land de waarheid vertelt word je in dit land direct afgestraft. De omgekeerde wereld.
Wijers maakt #Yesilgöz excuses voor uitspraken, en denkt 'geen seconde' aan stoppen - nos.nl/l/2590350
Wijers maakt #Yesilgöz excuses voor uitspraken, en denkt 'geen seconde' aan stoppen - nos.nl/l/2590350
Wijers maakt Yesilgöz excuses voor uitspraken, en denkt 'geen seconde' aan stoppen
De D66-informateur denkt dat zijn negatieve uitspraken over de VVD-leider het formatieproces niet hebben beschadigd.
nos.nl
November 13, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Het is feitelijk juist dat zeliegtdöz
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“Transformational possibilities… do not arise through psychic work that seeks to preserve the self, or in the affirmation of our identity by the other. Transformative potential arises in the self’s undoing, as it shatters.”
Saketopoulou, citing Leo Bersani’s “The Freudian Body”
Saketopoulou, citing Leo Bersani’s “The Freudian Body”
Saketopoulou puts it well: “My goal is to flesh out an epistemology of traumatophilia that may release analysts from the habit of seeing the imprint of trauma as something that can be eliminated… trauma is not a piece of shrapnel to be removed: it is a cause of becoming.”
November 13, 2025 at 5:19 PM
“Transformational possibilities… do not arise through psychic work that seeks to preserve the self, or in the affirmation of our identity by the other. Transformative potential arises in the self’s undoing, as it shatters.”
Saketopoulou, citing Leo Bersani’s “The Freudian Body”
Saketopoulou, citing Leo Bersani’s “The Freudian Body”
The good news: No CBT-E.
The bad news: I'm too complex a case.
Behaviourism is a curse.
The bad news: I'm too complex a case.
Behaviourism is a curse.
November 13, 2025 at 2:22 PM
The good news: No CBT-E.
The bad news: I'm too complex a case.
Behaviourism is a curse.
The bad news: I'm too complex a case.
Behaviourism is a curse.
Ah yes, I love being drenched in sweat upon arriving at the waiting area loaded with people with the Right™ kind of ed
November 13, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Ah yes, I love being drenched in sweat upon arriving at the waiting area loaded with people with the Right™ kind of ed
Intake for ED treatment tomorrow. Wish I had a pin with Peter Fonagy's face on it to help me remain grounded and curious when faced with the person doing my intake possibly suggesting I do yet another round of CBT-E.
November 12, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Intake for ED treatment tomorrow. Wish I had a pin with Peter Fonagy's face on it to help me remain grounded and curious when faced with the person doing my intake possibly suggesting I do yet another round of CBT-E.
I haven't been online much due to real-life events, and to then come back and see yet another instalment of the "xyz are actually filthy narcissists" discourse has me feeling peeved.
November 10, 2025 at 1:39 PM
I haven't been online much due to real-life events, and to then come back and see yet another instalment of the "xyz are actually filthy narcissists" discourse has me feeling peeved.
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each and every single time a psychotherapist on social media claims that politics has absolutely no place in psychotherapy
and claims this is a completely centrist and politically neutral position
and claims this is a completely centrist and politically neutral position
November 4, 2025 at 10:57 PM
each and every single time a psychotherapist on social media claims that politics has absolutely no place in psychotherapy
and claims this is a completely centrist and politically neutral position
and claims this is a completely centrist and politically neutral position
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‘The original police assessment, seen by MEE, records that Dutch police informed their British counterparts that "over 200" Maccabi Tel Aviv fans in Amsterdam last year were "linked to the Israel Defense Forces", Israel's army.’
Exclusive: Violent Maccabi fans were organised fighters 'linked to IDF', UK police found - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/violent-maccabi-fans-included-organised-fighters-linked-idf-uk-police-found
Exclusive: Violent Maccabi fans were organised fighters 'linked to IDF', UK police found
MEE can reveal new intelligence which led to ban on Israeli Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from Aston Villa game this week
www.middleeasteye.net
November 4, 2025 at 10:44 PM
‘The original police assessment, seen by MEE, records that Dutch police informed their British counterparts that "over 200" Maccabi Tel Aviv fans in Amsterdam last year were "linked to the Israel Defense Forces", Israel's army.’