Lindsay Snow, PhD

Person. Clinical Psychologist. Candidate in Psychoanalysis. Occasionally witty. Ongoingly sanctified. Posts/RTs/QTs/Likes are personal.

[Lindsay Snow, PhD @Lmsnow3]

Me: Time to read more Bion!

*opens book*

Oh. K.

[Lindsay Snow, PhD @Lmsnow3]

@JonathanShedler @PsychoRanjbarah @JayceLong … can confirm the presence of soul worms 🪱 🪱🪱

[Lindsay Snow, PhD @Lmsnow3]

@DrGipps @proud_penelope The smiley :) is diabolical here

[Lindsay Snow, PhD @Lmsnow3]

@proud_penelope @KemtrupTweets The new trainee

[A.A.J. DeVille @AAJDeVille1]

Why do some patients not get better in psychotherapy? Irwin Hirsch reminds us of the dangers of "coasting in the countertransference." It is a simple, useful, and powerful book about a problem that prevents patients from improving.

https://t.co/eJ8IFGkv3C

[Lindsay Snow, PhD @Lmsnow3]

Another graduation ceremony, another afternoon of being repeatedly mistaken as a grad student 🤙🏻

[Lindsay Snow, PhD @Lmsnow3]

Sure, being a psychotherapist is challenging...But agreeing to order 16 customized caffeine beverages from an artisan coffee shop for a group of graduate trainees was one of the most stressful experiences of my life. (Did we know these beverages come in green and purple?)

[Lindsay Snow, PhD @Lmsnow3]

Rather, I should say “Balints”— both Michael and Enid write about this.

[Lindsay Snow, PhD @Lmsnow3]

This kind of listening expands what it means to embody attuned responsiveness with each patient. Thinking of what Balint refers to as being the “unobtrusive analyst.”

[Jayce Long @JayceLong]

A focus on the here and now transference does not mean you have to explicitly make it about “us.” You listen for how it might be, letting the possibility inform your listening and response, even if just implicitly, with the aim of inviting the patient to expand their exploration.

[Lindsay Snow, PhD @Lmsnow3]

@pressand_turn @jefffinethomas I came across it in a blog post, but I believe it's from Tolstoy's Calendar of Wisdom :)

[Lindsay Snow, PhD @Lmsnow3]

The kinder and the more thoughtful a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people.

Kindness enriches our life; with kindness mysterious things become clear, difficult things become easy, and dull things become cheerful.

- Leo Tolstoy

[Grant H Brenner MD DFAPA @GrantHBrennerMD]

Saying that psychotherapists shouldn't offer advice and that advice is not therapy is an overly simplistic formulation.

It comes from a psychoanalytic and psychodynamic tradition which I highly value, perhaps above others in some respects...

When it is formulated as a one-sided rule, it is more an article of dogma akin to a theological prohibition then reflecting the spirit of critical thinking which is the strength of the psychodynamic model.

It seems like a glaring blind spot to me to both assert the primacy of reflective function and also to assert singular prescriptions for practice.

Next step might be to do a little bit of a literature search to see how this has been addressed previously because I strongly suspect there are formulations which are not black and white.

The signal on social media has devolved into a binary one.

[Lindsay Snow, PhD @Lmsnow3]

@jefffinethomas If there are delays, we riot.

[Lindsay Snow, PhD @Lmsnow3]

@darrenhabermft Way to go! Congratulations to you :)

[Lindsay Snow, PhD @Lmsnow3]

- that is, proceeding without considering how working in this way may affect the patient whose facility in this area is not as well developed as the analyst's.” - Robert Grossmark, The Unobtrusive Relational Analyst

[Lindsay Snow, PhD @Lmsnow3]

“In our contemporary psychoanalytic climate, "omniscience" and "omnipotence" can come in many other forms, including an unexamined tendency to proceed as if discussing the ongoing interaction in the moment is always a good idea…

[Jayce Long @JayceLong]

— Michael Parsons
Living Psychoanalysis, “The Analyst’s Countertransference to the Psychoanalytic Process”