Daniel Elias

Psychotherapist | Psych @UofT | Law @SussexUni

[Daniel Elias @Daniel_S_Elias]

Tao Te Ching, Ch. 24:
"Those who walk on their toes are not steady.
Those who rush do not go far.
Those who try to shine for others dim their light."

[Jonathan Shedler @JonathanShedler]

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It should not surprise us when patients who can’t form good relationships want to end the therapy relationship before the real therapy begins, or make the clinician want to end it.

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[Dr. Linda Berman @LindaBerman4]

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”

Pablo Picasso

[🍂 @Lovandfear]

Two different people, same bitter truth.

“Dostoevsky: “I gave them every version of myself hoping one would be enough”

Kafka: “But people only love the version they don't have to fix.”

[Dr. Linda Berman @LindaBerman4]

“Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom, sharpen the sensitivity and assure the presence of tension that is necessary to preserve human existence.”

Rollo May

[Edward A. Perin - Psychologist @DoctorPerin]

If you’re too busy to meditate for 30 minutes, meditate for an hour.

[Daniel Elias @Daniel_S_Elias]

@TheaEuryphaessa It's helpful to think "So we have sex. Then what?"

How unfortunately easy it is to mistake infatuation for love. And to confuse pursuit and sacrifice for ecstasy.

[Dr. Linda Berman @LindaBerman4]

One falls in love, and then learns, for the duration, that one is at the mercy of someone else’s childhood.

Hanif Kureishi

#love #childhood

[Daily Dose of Philosophy @PhilosophyDose_]

“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”

- Marcus Aurelius

[🍂 @Lovandfear]

— Plato

[Fascinating History @Fascinate_Hist]

'I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.'

- J.R.R. Tolkien, born on this day, January 3, in 1892.

[Philosophy Quotes @philosophors]

“The desire to be loved is the last illusion. Give it up and you will be free.”

— Margaret Atwood

[Daniel Elias @Daniel_S_Elias]

"Every psychotherapist must be prepared to be a kind of archaeologist of the spirit, willing to look at archaic fragments that arise in people."

— Dr. Stephen Larsen
"The Mythic Imagination"

[Daniel Elias @Daniel_S_Elias]

@GrantHBrennerMD I imagine most therapists (hopefully) saying "I'm trained/interested in x, so my approach is informed by that framework, but is by no means the only effective approach."

To paraphrase Jung: know the theory and techniques, but in the moment be a human listening to another

[Daniel Elias @Daniel_S_Elias]

@KemtrupTweets Listening --> Facilitating the patient to be their self / be aware of their self --> Facilitating the change patient seeks

Advise/teach vs. Guide/share

[Daniel Elias @Daniel_S_Elias]

@JonathanShedler Your post was right below this one on my feed!

[Dr. Linda Berman @LindaBerman4]

Most writing on psychotherapy stresses the goal of change: change in behavior,mood,habits of defense, developmental preoccupations, and so forth.A less frequently emphasized aspect of psychotherapy is adaptation to those features of life that cannot be changed..
Nancy McWilliams

[Lorwen Harris Nagle, PhD @LORWEN108]

Principle 7: “Symbols heal what logic cannot.”

Jung taught that the psyche doesn’t speak in arguments.

It speaks in images, dreams, rituals, and symbols.

That’s why art, imagination, and myth restore what analysis alone cannot.

[Lorwen Harris Nagle, PhD @LORWEN108]

Principle 2: “Your symptoms are messages, not enemies.”

Jung taught that anxiety, depression, and confusion aren’t failures.

They’re signals from parts of the psyche that have been ignored.

“What you resist does not disappear. It waits.”

Listening to your inner voice changes everything.

[Daniel Elias @Daniel_S_Elias]

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[Daniel Elias @Daniel_S_Elias]

@KemtrupTweets Overall, it seems Prof Inzlicht was reflecting on the potential future of manualized therapies. "What if PhD clinicians develop manualized therapies, and these therapies are then conducted by non-PhDs, maybe even AI?"