Alex
@yalexos.bsky.social
Psychotherapist, private practice. Psychodynamic psychology.
If I was Canada I would just start calling the US “Southern Canada” and change all my maps. Then the teacher would send everyone to the principal’s office.
February 13, 2025 at 2:32 AM
If I was Canada I would just start calling the US “Southern Canada” and change all my maps. Then the teacher would send everyone to the principal’s office.
What what are we doing here, folks? Like, for real. Why are you on social media. Why am I. I can say there's probably some layers of motivations for me. And some clarity. And some things that are less than clear.
January 28, 2025 at 12:18 AM
What what are we doing here, folks? Like, for real. Why are you on social media. Why am I. I can say there's probably some layers of motivations for me. And some clarity. And some things that are less than clear.
Well it’s Christmas Eve. Two bills scheduled for auto-pay nevertheless go through.
December 25, 2024 at 3:50 AM
Well it’s Christmas Eve. Two bills scheduled for auto-pay nevertheless go through.
Two categories of psychotherapy: “predictive” and “immersive.”
Predictive: content-focussed, examines experiences occurring outside session, predicts new experiences.
Immersive: sessions are developmental events. Psyche is expressed on a continuum in and out of sessions.
Predictive: content-focussed, examines experiences occurring outside session, predicts new experiences.
Immersive: sessions are developmental events. Psyche is expressed on a continuum in and out of sessions.
December 22, 2024 at 7:29 PM
Two categories of psychotherapy: “predictive” and “immersive.”
Predictive: content-focussed, examines experiences occurring outside session, predicts new experiences.
Immersive: sessions are developmental events. Psyche is expressed on a continuum in and out of sessions.
Predictive: content-focussed, examines experiences occurring outside session, predicts new experiences.
Immersive: sessions are developmental events. Psyche is expressed on a continuum in and out of sessions.
Day 5. I’m going strong. Might make it to 6!
December 21, 2024 at 12:22 AM
Day 5. I’m going strong. Might make it to 6!
Day 4 of the 20 books in 20 days challenge. No explanations. Just covers. Books that stuck with you.
December 20, 2024 at 2:19 AM
Day 4 of the 20 books in 20 days challenge. No explanations. Just covers. Books that stuck with you.
Psychotherapy is sitting in a room talking. That’s not to minimize it. But in discussing elaborate theories, it helps to think about the parts of sitting in a room talking that they might actually describe.
December 19, 2024 at 5:43 PM
Psychotherapy is sitting in a room talking. That’s not to minimize it. But in discussing elaborate theories, it helps to think about the parts of sitting in a room talking that they might actually describe.
I’m suspicious that Psychology Today blogs disregards publication proposals entirely unless you have advanced credentials or prior publications. Like they don’t even read the proposal otherwise. Anyone confirm?
December 19, 2024 at 4:54 PM
I’m suspicious that Psychology Today blogs disregards publication proposals entirely unless you have advanced credentials or prior publications. Like they don’t even read the proposal otherwise. Anyone confirm?
December 18, 2024 at 11:51 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers
Day 2
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers
Day 2
December 18, 2024 at 1:11 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers
Day 2
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers
Day 2
Hey, just got here from Twitter…
basketball player wearing a red jersey with the number 23 on it
ALT: basketball player wearing a red jersey with the number 23 on it
media.tenor.com
December 5, 2024 at 1:36 AM
Hey, just got here from Twitter…
This is why I think psychotherapy is hard and takes a long time: because if we take these ideas at all seriously—that my ego and internal objects allow me to know that I exist, for example—a rearrangement means that I must tolerate an experience of falling apart.
December 3, 2024 at 6:11 AM
This is why I think psychotherapy is hard and takes a long time: because if we take these ideas at all seriously—that my ego and internal objects allow me to know that I exist, for example—a rearrangement means that I must tolerate an experience of falling apart.
“Tonight I am going to touch on a vast and obscure topic, and the present paper is necessarily in the nature of preliminary notes.”
Then mentions projective identification for the first time.
- Melanie Klein, 1946
Then mentions projective identification for the first time.
- Melanie Klein, 1946
November 24, 2024 at 10:21 PM
“Tonight I am going to touch on a vast and obscure topic, and the present paper is necessarily in the nature of preliminary notes.”
Then mentions projective identification for the first time.
- Melanie Klein, 1946
Then mentions projective identification for the first time.
- Melanie Klein, 1946
Really think about this for a sec. You’re a tiny infant. You haven’t developed internal symbols. All you have is raw sensory experience. And instinct. And affect. But you don’t know it’s yours. You don’t know where you end and begin. Imagine this as best you can. Let it sink in.
November 24, 2024 at 5:33 AM
Really think about this for a sec. You’re a tiny infant. You haven’t developed internal symbols. All you have is raw sensory experience. And instinct. And affect. But you don’t know it’s yours. You don’t know where you end and begin. Imagine this as best you can. Let it sink in.
A central feature of the depressive style might be this: if I’m angry, do I feel guilty immediately afterwards?
November 24, 2024 at 1:09 AM
A central feature of the depressive style might be this: if I’m angry, do I feel guilty immediately afterwards?
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Hope can be the denial of loss. Avoidance of grief. And an attempt at repetition.
I hope for what was, or what might have been, at the expense of what is.
I hope for what was, or what might have been, at the expense of what is.
November 23, 2024 at 10:29 PM
Hope can be the denial of loss. Avoidance of grief. And an attempt at repetition.
I hope for what was, or what might have been, at the expense of what is.
I hope for what was, or what might have been, at the expense of what is.
Introduce yourself with your worst feedback from school:
Hi I’m Alex
“Alex, while you’re sitting in the woods watching the trees grow, the rest of us will be getting on with our lives.”
11th grade US History teacher
Hi I’m Alex
“Alex, while you’re sitting in the woods watching the trees grow, the rest of us will be getting on with our lives.”
11th grade US History teacher
Introduce yourself with your worst feedback from school:
Hi, I’m Mel, and I’m a great disappointment.
(AP US politics teacher, 12th grade.)
Hi, I’m Mel, and I’m a great disappointment.
(AP US politics teacher, 12th grade.)
Introduce yourself with your worst feedback from school:
Hi, I’m Andrew, and writing like mine doesn’t get into the New Yorker.
(Which is the purpose of writing, apparently, at least according to my writing teacher. They almost got me to give up on it. Almost.)
Hi, I’m Andrew, and writing like mine doesn’t get into the New Yorker.
(Which is the purpose of writing, apparently, at least according to my writing teacher. They almost got me to give up on it. Almost.)
November 21, 2024 at 1:46 AM
Introduce yourself with your worst feedback from school:
Hi I’m Alex
“Alex, while you’re sitting in the woods watching the trees grow, the rest of us will be getting on with our lives.”
11th grade US History teacher
Hi I’m Alex
“Alex, while you’re sitting in the woods watching the trees grow, the rest of us will be getting on with our lives.”
11th grade US History teacher
"Reading is not simply a matter of considering, weighing, or even of trying out the ideas and experiences that are presented by the writer ... You, the reader, must allow me to occupy you, your thoughts, your mind, since I have no voice with which to speak other than yours."
- Thomas Ogden
- Thomas Ogden
November 19, 2024 at 4:41 AM
"Reading is not simply a matter of considering, weighing, or even of trying out the ideas and experiences that are presented by the writer ... You, the reader, must allow me to occupy you, your thoughts, your mind, since I have no voice with which to speak other than yours."
- Thomas Ogden
- Thomas Ogden
A mind doesn’t exist in the same way that a duck does.
To know it you have to simultaneously enlist its capacities.
To know it you have to simultaneously enlist its capacities.
November 17, 2024 at 9:15 PM
A mind doesn’t exist in the same way that a duck does.
To know it you have to simultaneously enlist its capacities.
To know it you have to simultaneously enlist its capacities.
It appears that self knowledge is one of the more difficult forms of knowledge to come by
November 17, 2024 at 7:44 PM
It appears that self knowledge is one of the more difficult forms of knowledge to come by
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I have a joke about insurance companies, let me put you on a brief hold.
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Okay I’m back. Sorry jokes aren’t part of your benefit package.
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September 30, 2023 at 3:16 AM
I have a joke about insurance companies, let me put you on a brief hold.
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Okay I’m back. Sorry jokes aren’t part of your benefit package.
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Okay I’m back. Sorry jokes aren’t part of your benefit package.
Why did the analyst cross the road?
It’s up for interpretation
It’s up for interpretation
November 15, 2024 at 5:49 AM
Why did the analyst cross the road?
It’s up for interpretation
It’s up for interpretation
I haven’t logged on here in forever and it appears I have a good amount of followers all of a sudden. Hello everyone. What brings you here?
November 15, 2024 at 5:39 AM
I haven’t logged on here in forever and it appears I have a good amount of followers all of a sudden. Hello everyone. What brings you here?
My Bluesky followers are growing! Soon I’ll be famous!
October 2, 2023 at 8:09 PM
My Bluesky followers are growing! Soon I’ll be famous!