Leanah Olander
@leanaholander.bsky.social
Lebenskünstler.
Psychologie, psychodynamische Psychotherapie.
cPTSD lived experience expert.
Psychologie, psychodynamische Psychotherapie.
cPTSD lived experience expert.
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Leanah Olander
@leanaholander.bsky.social
· Apr 24
It requires two minds to think one’s most disturbing thoughts…Since every stage of development involves facing emotional experience for which one feels unprepared, we are throughout our lives in need of other people with whom to think.
- Thomas Ogden
- Thomas Ogden
What a precious feeling it is, to be able to share one’s thoughts and the following emotional experience with another person for the first time.
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Immigrant Nobel Prize winners exiting the United States
I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.
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October 10, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Immigrant Nobel Prize winners exiting the United States
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Friends and comrades made a crowdfunding page for my family.
It’s really hard to post this. I know that there are a lot of other important issues asking for money but things have gotten to the point where we need to open ourselves up to your support.
Thank you for your consideration.
It’s really hard to post this. I know that there are a lot of other important issues asking for money but things have gotten to the point where we need to open ourselves up to your support.
Thank you for your consideration.
"Help us leave safely" on FreeFunder
Click here to support "Help us leave safely" by Dara on FreeFunder!
www.freefunder.com
October 9, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Friends and comrades made a crowdfunding page for my family.
It’s really hard to post this. I know that there are a lot of other important issues asking for money but things have gotten to the point where we need to open ourselves up to your support.
Thank you for your consideration.
It’s really hard to post this. I know that there are a lot of other important issues asking for money but things have gotten to the point where we need to open ourselves up to your support.
Thank you for your consideration.
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typo of the day: “the healing effects of the stable internalisation of a benevolent otter”. well, why not.
a mother otter is holding a baby otter in her arms while floating in the water .
ALT: a mother otter is holding a baby otter in her arms while floating in the water .
media.tenor.com
September 29, 2025 at 8:09 PM
typo of the day: “the healing effects of the stable internalisation of a benevolent otter”. well, why not.
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Trump on getting Colbert, Kimmel, and Fallon fired: "It's really good to see them go, and I hope I played a major part in it!"
July 22, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Trump on getting Colbert, Kimmel, and Fallon fired: "It's really good to see them go, and I hope I played a major part in it!"
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2. This is also what Jimmy Kimmel said the day that Charlie Kirk was assassinated:
September 18, 2025 at 2:08 AM
2. This is also what Jimmy Kimmel said the day that Charlie Kirk was assassinated:
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1. Just so we’re clear, this is the clip that got Jimmy Kimmel’s show shelved by ABC.
If I’m missing any other clips please let me know.
If I’m missing any other clips please let me know.
September 18, 2025 at 2:08 AM
1. Just so we’re clear, this is the clip that got Jimmy Kimmel’s show shelved by ABC.
If I’m missing any other clips please let me know.
If I’m missing any other clips please let me know.
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One of the most remarkable things of the last 9 months is how many Americans seem to believe the President is all powerful and Congress has no say.
Actually Congress has been ineffective by choice. It has immense power if it had the courage to use it.
Actually Congress has been ineffective by choice. It has immense power if it had the courage to use it.
September 7, 2025 at 9:49 AM
One of the most remarkable things of the last 9 months is how many Americans seem to believe the President is all powerful and Congress has no say.
Actually Congress has been ineffective by choice. It has immense power if it had the courage to use it.
Actually Congress has been ineffective by choice. It has immense power if it had the courage to use it.
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Gus Speth: "I used to think that top environmental problems were biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and climate change. I thought that 30 years of good science could address these problems. I was wrong. The top environmental problems are selfishness, greed and apathy...”
August 26, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Gus Speth: "I used to think that top environmental problems were biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and climate change. I thought that 30 years of good science could address these problems. I was wrong. The top environmental problems are selfishness, greed and apathy...”
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LOL, don’t you just love Newsom.
August 23, 2025 at 1:32 PM
LOL, don’t you just love Newsom.
In our post-truth world:
Neil deGrass Tyson: "How sad it must be believing that scientists, historians, scholars, economists, journalists devoted their entire lives to deceiving you, but a reality-TV star proven in court to be a lying felon is your beacon of truth & honesty"
August 23, 2025 at 7:02 PM
In our post-truth world:
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Steampunk style 'book dress' by contemporary French designer Sylvie Facon #WomensArt
August 23, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Steampunk style 'book dress' by contemporary French designer Sylvie Facon #WomensArt
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”Any therapist becomes impressed over time with how hard it is to find a way to talk with someone that avoids getting subsumed into that person’s preexisting personal schemas.” - Nancy mcWilliams
August 7, 2025 at 2:27 PM
”Any therapist becomes impressed over time with how hard it is to find a way to talk with someone that avoids getting subsumed into that person’s preexisting personal schemas.” - Nancy mcWilliams
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The Big Beautiful Bill gives Meta a $15 billion check.
That’s more than our federal government spends on child care in an entire year.
If we invested that much in child care & early childhood education, we’d create stronger futures for everyone, not just Mark Zuckerberg.
That’s more than our federal government spends on child care in an entire year.
If we invested that much in child care & early childhood education, we’d create stronger futures for everyone, not just Mark Zuckerberg.
July 25, 2025 at 1:14 PM
The Big Beautiful Bill gives Meta a $15 billion check.
That’s more than our federal government spends on child care in an entire year.
If we invested that much in child care & early childhood education, we’d create stronger futures for everyone, not just Mark Zuckerberg.
That’s more than our federal government spends on child care in an entire year.
If we invested that much in child care & early childhood education, we’d create stronger futures for everyone, not just Mark Zuckerberg.
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The act of “signing” for anything is purely performative at this point. Like I have no idea what I just scribbled on that pad, I don’t even know what you’re comparing it to anymore and I probably can’t even convincingly even forge my own signature but sure let’s keep on doing this forever I guess
July 25, 2025 at 3:28 PM
The act of “signing” for anything is purely performative at this point. Like I have no idea what I just scribbled on that pad, I don’t even know what you’re comparing it to anymore and I probably can’t even convincingly even forge my own signature but sure let’s keep on doing this forever I guess
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Did you know that the very thing that makes you spin out is the ticket to your freedom from it? In today’s Substack post I'll be discussing how to learn that within your own personal crazy lay the keys to finding peace with it.
open.substack.com/pub/appliedp...
open.substack.com/pub/appliedp...
How Your ‘Crazy’ is the Key to Your Psychological Freedom
Each of us has our own unique kind of freak-out. Instead of letting it get you down, find out how it to use your freak-out to free yourself from its grip.
open.substack.com
July 14, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Did you know that the very thing that makes you spin out is the ticket to your freedom from it? In today’s Substack post I'll be discussing how to learn that within your own personal crazy lay the keys to finding peace with it.
open.substack.com/pub/appliedp...
open.substack.com/pub/appliedp...
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Americans and Iranians have a lot in common, such as that in both countries supreme power actually rests with a small group of unaccountable theocrats appointed for life.
June 21, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Americans and Iranians have a lot in common, such as that in both countries supreme power actually rests with a small group of unaccountable theocrats appointed for life.
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It is particularly important to deal with negative transferences in the earliest sessions; otherwise, the patient may not come back. Clients often need a sense of permission to put words to what may seem “impolite” or “inappropriate” to say in other contexts.
- Nancy McWilliams
- Nancy McWilliams
May 30, 2025 at 3:42 PM
It is particularly important to deal with negative transferences in the earliest sessions; otherwise, the patient may not come back. Clients often need a sense of permission to put words to what may seem “impolite” or “inappropriate” to say in other contexts.
- Nancy McWilliams
- Nancy McWilliams
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This is about NHANES, a great openly available study, the same dynamic is seen with Mendelian Randomization. I am reminded of the line: “Strange game, the only way to win is not to play”… the game being rigged is “peer reviewed publications” and we don’t have a consensus on abandoning those….
Low-quality papers are surging by exploiting public data sets and AI
Paper mills are also likely contributing to “false discoveries”
www.science.org
May 15, 2025 at 4:44 PM
This is about NHANES, a great openly available study, the same dynamic is seen with Mendelian Randomization. I am reminded of the line: “Strange game, the only way to win is not to play”… the game being rigged is “peer reviewed publications” and we don’t have a consensus on abandoning those….
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This is one of the best ads I have ever seen and I can’t believe I missed it
May 3, 2025 at 4:40 PM
This is one of the best ads I have ever seen and I can’t believe I missed it
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"Integration" in trauma recovery is not about making "parts" disappear. It's about our parts developing the capacity & willingness to work w/ & support each other, so we're not violently & unpredictably slamming in & out of self-states like we often were pre-recovery.
May 3, 2025 at 3:08 PM
"Integration" in trauma recovery is not about making "parts" disappear. It's about our parts developing the capacity & willingness to work w/ & support each other, so we're not violently & unpredictably slamming in & out of self-states like we often were pre-recovery.
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Clinical work correlates poorly with the analyst’s theoretical orientation. The character traits of the analyst are better indicators of how that analyst actually works.
- Lee Grossman
- Lee Grossman
April 28, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Clinical work correlates poorly with the analyst’s theoretical orientation. The character traits of the analyst are better indicators of how that analyst actually works.
- Lee Grossman
- Lee Grossman
An apt note to continue the theme of the memory I just shared.
Parents who don't let us into their emotional world-- in ways other than expressing anger, that is-- implicitly teach us there's something "forbidden" or shameful about vulnerability. There's not-- but that programming often sticks w/ us, even into adulthood & recovery.
April 24, 2025 at 8:41 PM
An apt note to continue the theme of the memory I just shared.
What a precious feeling it is, to be able to share one’s thoughts and the following emotional experience with another person for the first time.
It requires two minds to think one’s most disturbing thoughts…Since every stage of development involves facing emotional experience for which one feels unprepared, we are throughout our lives in need of other people with whom to think.
- Thomas Ogden
- Thomas Ogden
April 24, 2025 at 8:12 PM
What a precious feeling it is, to be able to share one’s thoughts and the following emotional experience with another person for the first time.