1/ Sixteen psychoanalytic concepts for our time (updated) 🧵
Splitting: Perceiving others in black-and-white categories; seeing them as one-dimensional, as all good or all bad
@jazztoad Having now watched the film (thanks for the nudge) I reckon it’s more like an experiential process group than therapy - no linking past with present, different facilitation style although some similarities and quite moving. Try this https://t.co/vag1osgD3R
A confusing array of therapies out there. “If you haven’t found a therapy match yet, if you’re feeling disheartened about your search, don’t give up. Trust in yourself. There is a part of you that knows what you need.”
“Perhaps if we are able to face the loss of the old order, including our narcissistic illusions of autonomy and self-sufficiency, we will be better placed to shape the new one on a more secure footing.”
One month ago today Melancholia should have opened at the @FreudMusLondon, but like so many events, it has had to be postponed. Here Liz Allison takes a look back to the situation in which Freud wrote his original, groundbreaking essay on melancholia https://t.co/Qg1l5nBFW7
@profmsharpe Therapists offering premature or unwanted help to the front line might do well redirecting it towards the many isolated mental health patients whose therapy and other care will also be re-routed to Covid - whole mental health units are being closed and services suspended
@ABRSM Is there any reason why exams can’t be conducted via @zoom_us or @Skype or any other of the online video conferencing platforms? Suspension is not a solution - what if we get waves of covid over the next two years?
@stsandford @InstituteofGA@UKCP_Updates It just (just!) needs leadership for real collaboration between providers and professional bodies - arts therapists have set a brilliant example of how to do this with a diverse group of sister professions. I hope the even more costly adult psychotherapy trainings willl copy
Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education / Developing apprenticeship standards. Could this be the key to paid posts for trainee psychotherapists? Good bye unpaid honoraries and hello diversity @InstituteofGA @UKCP_Updates https://t.co/7K7pkaaLP0