Pinned
Psychoanalytic neutrality is for the consulting room and needs to be distinguished from allowing oneself to be neutered as a citizen.
Hanna Segal.
Hanna Segal.
"If our internal 'badness' drives us to avoid at all costs the 'perpetrator' projection in the perpetrator- victim dyad, we have only essentially worked with one small part of the patient, but secured our false 'goodness'."
January 8, 2025 at 11:01 PM
"If our internal 'badness' drives us to avoid at all costs the 'perpetrator' projection in the perpetrator- victim dyad, we have only essentially worked with one small part of the patient, but secured our false 'goodness'."
Sometimes...
"We change our patients by changing our countertransference to them."
Gill Straker.
"We change our patients by changing our countertransference to them."
Gill Straker.
January 8, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Sometimes...
"We change our patients by changing our countertransference to them."
Gill Straker.
"We change our patients by changing our countertransference to them."
Gill Straker.
Sometimes when the perpetrator lives in our mind there is no room for the original inhabitant.
Sometimes when the perpetrator lives in our mind we can only live externally.
Sometimes when the perpetrator lives in our mind we can only live externally.
January 3, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Sometimes when the perpetrator lives in our mind there is no room for the original inhabitant.
Sometimes when the perpetrator lives in our mind we can only live externally.
Sometimes when the perpetrator lives in our mind we can only live externally.
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Bertrand Russell wrote this over 100 years ago, in 1923. Hasn't aged a day.
January 1, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Bertrand Russell wrote this over 100 years ago, in 1923. Hasn't aged a day.
Failure to convince the child he is really loved leads to regression to partial object relating and the De-emotionalisation of the Object-relationship.
Fairbairn - Schizoid Factors in the Personality.
Fairbairn - Schizoid Factors in the Personality.
December 31, 2024 at 9:08 PM
Failure to convince the child he is really loved leads to regression to partial object relating and the De-emotionalisation of the Object-relationship.
Fairbairn - Schizoid Factors in the Personality.
Fairbairn - Schizoid Factors in the Personality.
Otto Kernberg on NPD 1/3
All NPD patients have a common basic self state of emptiness and boredom, a sense of meaningless of life with a stimulus hunger to overcome this which makes them prone to developing addictions and often goes in the direction of sexual exploits as sources..
All NPD patients have a common basic self state of emptiness and boredom, a sense of meaningless of life with a stimulus hunger to overcome this which makes them prone to developing addictions and often goes in the direction of sexual exploits as sources..
December 29, 2024 at 7:19 PM
Otto Kernberg on NPD 1/3
All NPD patients have a common basic self state of emptiness and boredom, a sense of meaningless of life with a stimulus hunger to overcome this which makes them prone to developing addictions and often goes in the direction of sexual exploits as sources..
All NPD patients have a common basic self state of emptiness and boredom, a sense of meaningless of life with a stimulus hunger to overcome this which makes them prone to developing addictions and often goes in the direction of sexual exploits as sources..
A micro interaction of the Schizoid dilemma.
December 28, 2024 at 11:36 PM
A micro interaction of the Schizoid dilemma.
Some small clues as to when a patient attends therapy with a Schizoid structure.
"Opening the conversation with a quote from Freud."
"I don't really know why I have come."
Fairbairn having a dig at Freud and the overintellectualisers 😂🤔
"Opening the conversation with a quote from Freud."
"I don't really know why I have come."
Fairbairn having a dig at Freud and the overintellectualisers 😂🤔
December 21, 2024 at 8:12 AM
Some small clues as to when a patient attends therapy with a Schizoid structure.
"Opening the conversation with a quote from Freud."
"I don't really know why I have come."
Fairbairn having a dig at Freud and the overintellectualisers 😂🤔
"Opening the conversation with a quote from Freud."
"I don't really know why I have come."
Fairbairn having a dig at Freud and the overintellectualisers 😂🤔
Page 1 of Ronald Fairbairn's classic paper from 1940.
Why we should study mental processes of a Schizoid nature.
Why we should study mental processes of a Schizoid nature.
December 18, 2024 at 10:12 PM
Page 1 of Ronald Fairbairn's classic paper from 1940.
Why we should study mental processes of a Schizoid nature.
Why we should study mental processes of a Schizoid nature.
So much the case for so many of our patients.
"For the Schizoid, to feel is to connect and to connect is to be appropriated."
Loray Daws.
"For the Schizoid, to feel is to connect and to connect is to be appropriated."
Loray Daws.
December 17, 2024 at 9:30 AM
So much the case for so many of our patients.
"For the Schizoid, to feel is to connect and to connect is to be appropriated."
Loray Daws.
"For the Schizoid, to feel is to connect and to connect is to be appropriated."
Loray Daws.
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Culture as the Bad Object (2024)
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
December 14, 2024 at 10:30 AM
Culture as the Bad Object (2024)
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The greatest trauma a child can experience.
Ronald Fairbairn.
Ronald Fairbairn.
December 12, 2024 at 10:28 PM
The greatest trauma a child can experience.
Ronald Fairbairn.
Ronald Fairbairn.
The constituent emotions of Masterson's abandonment depression
The 6 psychiatric horsemen of the apocalypse.
Depression
Anger
Fear
Guilt
Passivity/Helplessness
Emptiness and void.
The 6 psychiatric horsemen of the apocalypse.
Depression
Anger
Fear
Guilt
Passivity/Helplessness
Emptiness and void.
December 11, 2024 at 10:48 PM
The constituent emotions of Masterson's abandonment depression
The 6 psychiatric horsemen of the apocalypse.
Depression
Anger
Fear
Guilt
Passivity/Helplessness
Emptiness and void.
The 6 psychiatric horsemen of the apocalypse.
Depression
Anger
Fear
Guilt
Passivity/Helplessness
Emptiness and void.
Margaret Mahler - The mothers creation of the child.
December 10, 2024 at 11:07 PM
Margaret Mahler - The mothers creation of the child.
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“The act of listening is an act of justice” - Jessica Benjamin
Truly listening to another person is a political act, as it affirms their humanity and agency, especially for those whose experiences have been oppressed or disenfranchised
Truly listening to another person is a political act, as it affirms their humanity and agency, especially for those whose experiences have been oppressed or disenfranchised
December 9, 2024 at 7:39 PM
“The act of listening is an act of justice” - Jessica Benjamin
Truly listening to another person is a political act, as it affirms their humanity and agency, especially for those whose experiences have been oppressed or disenfranchised
Truly listening to another person is a political act, as it affirms their humanity and agency, especially for those whose experiences have been oppressed or disenfranchised
James Masterson realising that his interest in research methodology/day job, was actually a defence against his own intrapsychic problems 🤔
December 8, 2024 at 10:36 PM
James Masterson realising that his interest in research methodology/day job, was actually a defence against his own intrapsychic problems 🤔
Sometimes in a single moment you lose both mothers. You lose forever the one you had. You also lose all hope for the one you always needed.
Thomas Zimmerman.
Thomas Zimmerman.
December 1, 2024 at 11:29 PM
Sometimes in a single moment you lose both mothers. You lose forever the one you had. You also lose all hope for the one you always needed.
Thomas Zimmerman.
Thomas Zimmerman.
Sometimes the pain of boredom holds our split off emotions.
November 29, 2024 at 9:50 PM
Sometimes the pain of boredom holds our split off emotions.
When I was a child I learned to "self erase" - Thomas Zimmermann.
November 28, 2024 at 8:26 PM
When I was a child I learned to "self erase" - Thomas Zimmermann.
“The mark of a good marriage is when only one of you goes crazy at a time!”
— Heinz Kohut
— Heinz Kohut
November 26, 2024 at 11:25 PM
“The mark of a good marriage is when only one of you goes crazy at a time!”
— Heinz Kohut
— Heinz Kohut
Simple but core to forensic psychiatry.
"The key question to ask oneself in violence is what is being repeated through identification with the aggressor."
Anna Motz.
"The key question to ask oneself in violence is what is being repeated through identification with the aggressor."
Anna Motz.
November 26, 2024 at 9:30 PM
Simple but core to forensic psychiatry.
"The key question to ask oneself in violence is what is being repeated through identification with the aggressor."
Anna Motz.
"The key question to ask oneself in violence is what is being repeated through identification with the aggressor."
Anna Motz.
In families that don't talk, implicit memory is primary...
Janina Fisher.
Janina Fisher.
November 25, 2024 at 11:06 PM
In families that don't talk, implicit memory is primary...
Janina Fisher.
Janina Fisher.
The inability to form a real relationship leads to the need for ongoing part object relationships. There is no better supply of such relationships than through the therapeutic encounter..
Anonymous..
Anonymous..
November 25, 2024 at 10:43 PM
The inability to form a real relationship leads to the need for ongoing part object relationships. There is no better supply of such relationships than through the therapeutic encounter..
Anonymous..
Anonymous..
"Untreated ADD limits the access that you have to your own brain" 🤔
Daniel Amen.
Daniel Amen.
November 25, 2024 at 10:37 PM
"Untreated ADD limits the access that you have to your own brain" 🤔
Daniel Amen.
Daniel Amen.
Panic is sometimes an acute attack of dissociated unmentalised solitude.
Gianni Francesetti et al 2020.
Gianni Francesetti et al 2020.
November 25, 2024 at 10:27 PM
Panic is sometimes an acute attack of dissociated unmentalised solitude.
Gianni Francesetti et al 2020.
Gianni Francesetti et al 2020.