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Dr Matthew W Roberts
@drmwroberts.bsky.social
Melb AU psychiatrist psychotherapist writer clinical teacher musician. Dad-bommies in the swimming pool of life, fully clad in the only suit that still fits me. www.mydoctorshandwriting.com www.thenormalgrownup.com #psychiatrying #j4zzd0c #haikotherapy
My response as a therapist to the Serenity Prayer, assisted by reading Nancy McWilliams’ book chapter Psychological Vital Signs #psychiatrying
March 27, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Things life and work are teaching me #psychiatrying
February 28, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Here in Busselton WA for Radiance Network’s symposium, presenting my #patritherapeutic talk about healing after #patriarchy. Only so many ripples I can make in my life, but the net of sun plays on the sand below the surface. #psychiatrying
February 14, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Only one of these 20th Century Italian design masterpieces is not a seat. Great expo, on at Heide Melb AU alongside brilliant bleak Albert Tucker grotesques. Do those first, it’s like THE 20TH CENTURY WAS AWFUL then go down the ramp and it’s like YES BUT ALSO (peering over top of sunnies) CIAAAAO
December 29, 2024 at 7:23 AM
23.12.24ii
Last night’s a lovely blur
My phone remembers dancing
Just as I recall

#haikotherapy
December 23, 2024 at 2:33 AM
23.12.24
Such a good night out
The angels in my camera roll
Keep secrets from me

#haikotherapy
December 23, 2024 at 2:29 AM
22.12.24
So long I’ve watched you
In just one more rainless week
We could meet at last

#haikotherapy
December 22, 2024 at 12:01 AM
21.12.24iii
Kitchen sink rainbow
Through cut glass, cutlery rack
The dishes can wait

#haikotherapy
December 20, 2024 at 8:57 PM
21.12.24ii
Such southwest sunlight
Surprised the kitchen tinsel
Got splashed everywhere

#haikotherapy
December 20, 2024 at 8:48 PM
21.12.24
Dawn, summer solstice
Sun of gods and monster’s leaf
Such delicious light

#haikotherapy
December 20, 2024 at 8:35 PM
15.12.24
Camp by me said Gum
I swear I won’t drop a limb
Not tonight my loves

#haikotherapy
December 14, 2024 at 9:02 PM
14.12.24iii
Venus is a smile
So bright we only see a star
Twinkleless at dusk

#haikotherapy
December 14, 2024 at 12:42 PM
14.12.24ii
Moon, tree, Jupiter
All quite close from where I stand
Could have got messy

#haikotherapy
December 14, 2024 at 11:05 AM
14.12.24
This is not a tree
Just its ghost that like the bugs
Won’t break the surface

#haikotherapy
December 14, 2024 at 9:06 AM
6.12.24
Your galaxy brain
Trillions of synapses
Agree about wine

#haikotherapy
December 6, 2024 at 7:42 AM
5.12.24
The same old new moon
We kids spurned for cathode rays
Via coat hanger

#haikotherapy
December 5, 2024 at 9:53 AM
4.12.24iii
My ugly daisy
Ageing and bitten yet still
Loving sun and rain

#haikotherapy
December 4, 2024 at 12:08 PM
30.11.24
Metres from tarmac
Seashells greet the rising tide
Like time’s not a thing

#haikotherapy
December 4, 2024 at 11:54 AM
4.12.24
Pig-headed gum tree
Blown down flat but won’t say die
Shoots straight from the foot

#haikotherapy
December 4, 2024 at 11:53 AM
This makes me so happy.
December 3, 2024 at 9:44 PM
3.12.24
You missed the sunset
But your eyes were tired of fire
And wept at those blues

#haikotherapy
December 3, 2024 at 2:34 AM
November 28, 2024 at 7:50 AM
27.11.24ii

Wednesday kite surfer
Storm lurks like a lover’s mood
Hanging in the air

#haikotherapy
November 27, 2024 at 10:00 AM
27.11.24
Sky and road darken
Rain soon makes the asphalt black
Makes it boil and writhe

#haikotherapy
November 27, 2024 at 9:58 AM
I think Nathan W Pyle just redefined job security 👽 ❤️

I am in love with these blue observers of us. I have long used the alien anthropologist in my #psychotherapy teaching: what would a total newcomer make of us? Can we imagine how we would think if freed of all human assumptions?

#psychiatrying
November 25, 2024 at 8:22 PM