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26 November 2025 14:09

𝐸𝑥𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑛𝑜𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝑝𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑐…my fanciful term for perhaps one of the most frequent and fundamental of all transferences: the need to share life experiences with someone else…Our experiences need to be shared, confirmed, ratified…after which we somehow feel different about them. - James S. Grotstein

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06 November 2025 15:21

Humility is often mentioned as 𝘢𝘯 important quality in a therapist, but given its impact on the other virtues, it might be 𝘵𝘩𝘦 most important quality in a therapist.

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27 October 2025 16:19

Psychoanalysis is the disciplined study of whatever it is the patient does not want to know about himself. - Warren Poland

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24 October 2025 15:22

How people think psychotherapists look vs. how they actually look

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20 October 2025 15:46

“We tend to underestimate the power of the unspoken affect organizing our viewpoint…Our dreams reveal to us our demands and terrors, as do our sudden rages, longings, reveries, bursts of laughter, or quietly unsettling angst; a key analytic idea starting with Freud.” - Darren Haber