David Godot, Psy.D.

Clinical psychologist. Director at Psych Lab. Past President of the Society of Psychological Hypnosis (APA Division 30). CEO of the unconscious.

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@DoctorPerin Interpersonal biofeedback

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@JonathanShedler Part of the problem is that most people (and most therapists) assume they’re good at relating, without operationalizing what that means. So what gets thought of as “a therapeutic relationship” is often nothing more than a shared protocol for avoiding discomfort.

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@the_mel_jar Easier to be an object

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@shawnredwood @SheriUcar @DoctorPerin @JonathanShedler usually does a nice job of explaining. Here’s an interview on the subject: https://t.co/LbheCmOaNn

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Really nice article about psychiatric diagnosis from today’s New York Times, by Awais Aftab, M.D. @awaisaftab

https://t.co/pSW0KnQzyi

What's your "real" diagnosis? There isn't one.

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@shawnredwood @SheriUcar @DoctorPerin Sorry you never got real therapy

[Matthew Bennett @drmbennett]

Therapists whose idea of psychotherapy is manualized treatment, behavior checklists, and breathing exercises: you will soon be replaced by AI, and you had it coming.

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When we listen for transference, we listen for the poetry in the patient’s words.

- Jon Frederickson, Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: Learning to listen from multiple perspectives

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There’s a spillover effect too — any topic the belief touches gets stupefied by the thought-stopping power of faithful ossification

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I figured out my metric for “stupid.” It’s synonymous with belief. Belief is simply a way of saying there’s a topic I’ve decided to stop thinking about. Therefore, no matter how cognitively capable I may be, I am definitively stupid in relation to any topic I have a belief about.

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Letting go of thoughts,
Letting go of self,
Letting go of place and time —
Ooo... open awareness

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Before any technique, there is a choice: to understand or to act. The most common failures in therapy happen when we choose to act without first understanding.

https://t.co/kD6Hu2ueHR

#psychology #psychotherapy #psychodynamic #attachment #mentalizing

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"We avoid recording our sessions because the recordings contain truths about us that we are afraid to face. The more we face the truth of our own experience, the more we gain the ability to help our patients do the same."
https://t.co/F4pQIfCTJS

#psychotherapy #psychology

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"Creative drive is move toward integration — unification of opposing currents into a coherent pattern."

https://t.co/rGZnuxfWOT

#creativity #philosophy #psychology #productivity #motivation

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@NickTaber @BunnJohann89644 @JonathanShedler Technical extensions to the effectiveness of psychodynamic therapy have been demonstrated by Fonagy & Bateman (MBT) and Allan Abbass (ISTDP)

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@NickTaber @BunnJohann89644 I advocate for largely the same type of therapy @JonathanShedler describes as the alternative to so-called “evidence-based” therapies, for which the evidence is actually poor.

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@NickTaber The idea is that a therapist is a person skilled at helping you see the ways you prevent yourself from fully relating to yourself and others — thereby depriving yourself of the exact connection which would be healing — and internalize new ways of relating.

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https://t.co/kCadNaL9tD

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