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Aditi Gupta

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they/them | current clinical psych doctoral student at Adelphi University-Derner, former biologist/biochemist, wannabe punk | studying: psychoanalysis, marginalized identities, subject formation | a human with a voice. caveat lector

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Aditi Gupta

@aditig.bsky.social

Made this shawl for a friend!! (I learned so much and am very proud of myself!!) (the blocking here looks weird but I swear it turned out good)

Two pictures of a crocheted shawl spread out on a blocking mat in dramatic sunlight. The shawl fades from black at the top to white at the bottom—it’s made of a motif of skulls.

August 30, 2025 at 6:02 AM

Aditi Gupta

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A charming chem lab warning sign (cc @allthebeset.bsky.social)

A label on a shipment box; the picture is of a crossed out penguin wearing a bow tie, the bottom text says REFRIGERATE DO NOT FREEZE. warning sign c/o my bestie at UIUC :)

August 28, 2025 at 7:33 PM

Aditi Gupta

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Literally in the preface of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy by Nancy McWilliams. Hi, Dr. Weinberger!

The second paragraph of the preface of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy by Nancy McWilliams. Text as follows:

In addition to trying to address the training needs of beginning therapists, I am hoping to start a conversation about therapy that traverses theoretical orientations and professional disciplines. Perhaps by discussing central aspects of psychodynamic practice across diverse patient populations, I can effectively represent the psychoanalytic tradition to colleagues who are put off by arcane terminology and the trappings of a historically much too smug fraternity. My personal experience attests to what some researchers have dubbed the “dodo bird” phenomenon (Luborsky, Diguer, Luborsky, Singer, & Dickter, 1993), the observation that the common features of effective therapies operate similarly, independently of the ideologies of individual practitioners (Weinberger, 1995; Luborsky et al., 2002). My colleague Brenna Bry is a Skinnerian. My language for what I do is radically different from hers, but when I watch videotapes of her work, I notice that I would intervene in much the same way she does. If I can capture some elements of these common features in ways that are less vague than concepts such as “personal warmth” and “empathy,” I may be able to make what happens in psychodynamic psychotherapy not only comprehensible to novice analytic therapists but also interesting to colleagues of different explanatory leanings and to the educated nonprofessional reader.

May 19, 2025 at 3:07 AM

Aditi Gupta

@aditig.bsky.social

A successful “winter term” in my book (no pun intended)

A screenshot of Aditi’s storygraph challenge progress so far—4 books and 1315 pages read in January. I also crocheted a sweater and a cardigan and made a bunch of earrings but storygraph doesn’t track those haha

January 27, 2025 at 5:19 AM

Aditi Gupta

@aditig.bsky.social

aaaaand that’s been January so far. I look forward to not actually finishing a single book this year 🫡

Aditi’s storygraph results for the first week of January—437 pages read but zero books finished, as always. DNF king of 2025 incoming.

January 8, 2025 at 12:25 AM

Aditi Gupta

@aditig.bsky.social

The fun thing about living near(ish) the Met is that you can go to the Met

The fun thing about being a failure of an art history student and being on bluesky is that you can continue to publicly fail your professors a decade after they taught you. All I remember is that people thought that chalice on the left was the Holy Grail until in the 1900s someone figured out it was a lamp. Anyway! Four metal objects; one looks like a deep cup, the other three are flat, they all have beautiful delicate designs on them. Medieval? Idk. I wept

Four people gathered around panels of paintings of Christ from Siena in the 1300s. The gallery is dramatically lit. It was dope as hell honestly go see this exhibition if you can

The Met’s Greek kouros—he’s from 590-580 BCE, isn’t that wild? In the background, a docent with long hair strides with his left foot forward, much like the kouros himself. I also wept when I saw this statue… I missed him!

Temple of Dendur at the Met. Five people wearing white trainers are walking around on its platform. A sphinx is in the background.

December 21, 2024 at 5:23 AM

Aditi Gupta

@aditig.bsky.social

All credit to Dr. Lava on X for this one - Poliwag/whirl/wrath's distinctive spiral design is inspired by the intestines of tadpoles that you can see through its thin skin!!