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Dr Simon Crosbie
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PhD: 'Trauma, dissociation and the boarding school experience'. Interested in art and psychoanalysis, trauma studies, art history, and cemeteries. Survivor of institutional abuse. No DMs. Opinions are my own.

Website: http://simon-crosbie.squarespace.com
As AI women get older the hands grow larger:
March 4, 2025 at 12:56 PM
The AI old is young look works better that most moisturisers.
March 4, 2025 at 12:52 PM
I think Masud Khan writes about this in "Hidden Selves", the idea that omnipotence is separate from notions of mastery.
February 27, 2025 at 11:52 PM
This is absolute madness. There is an innate sense of cruelty about what these people are doing. My heart goes out to you.
February 27, 2025 at 11:46 PM
I remember driving with my mother a few years back playing a CD of Fanny Crosby's hymns. My mother who was brought up Methodist (decades lapsed) sang along happily, knowing all the words, despite not hearing them for over 70 years.
February 27, 2025 at 11:32 PM
ти пізда
трамп - пізда.
February 19, 2025 at 11:42 AM
And Johnny would never tell, because who would believe him and, anyway, how do you tell on God? The mind-fucking and spiritual devastation inflicted on victims was at least as damaging long term as the bodily violence and penetration."
February 19, 2025 at 11:39 AM
above all else and second (maybe) only to God. If a priest took an interest in little Johnny, many parents would be thrilled, never suspecting an overnight with Father at a mountain cabin would include their son’s molestation or rape...
February 19, 2025 at 11:39 AM
—tinged with hues of divinity: God-ish mediators of divine grace and gatekeepers to the sacraments to which every Catholic craves access. Children, at least in the not so distant past, were raised to believe that the priest was the Über-father of their family and community, a man to be trusted...
February 19, 2025 at 11:37 AM
I often reach for "The Language of Psychoanalysis". Excellent resource.
February 18, 2025 at 10:59 AM
I would say so.though the Partisan Review did not have the same pull as TikTok.
February 12, 2025 at 9:39 AM
...to such diverse people. Each of us who has encountered him has his own Winnicott, and he never transgressed the other's invention of him by any assertion of his own style of being. And yet he always stayed so inexorably Winnicott."
February 11, 2025 at 6:39 AM
He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody's personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him...
Jung was talking about Hitler, but the parallels with Trump are uncanny
February 8, 2025 at 4:53 AM
I have been watching this series and I am disturbed by it. They call it the MAFS experiment but it's more like an exercise in psychological savagery. The impact on this young man - who does need help - and equally, the young woman will be deeply traumatic. Exploitative, in the name of entertainment.
February 5, 2025 at 1:10 AM
More variations of the use of hands in media reports about child sex abuse in the church.
February 5, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Amen to that
February 4, 2025 at 1:01 PM