Kurt

PhD. Neuropsychology & Psychoanalysis. Navigating my ambivalence one day at a time.

[Kurt @kay_d_ess]

@NathanWadeSF 🙏 🙏

[Kurt @kay_d_ess]

I’m looking for psychodynamic readings on manic defences 🙏

[Grant H Brenner MD DFAPA @GrantHBrennerMD]

Does Psychoanalysis or Psychodynamic Therapy Actually Work?

Yes. And here's a compendium of the evidence.

"There is a common misconception around the world that there is no real evidence that psychoanalysis or psychodynamic psychotherapy actually works. However, this notion is incorrect. In fact, in the past decade or more, an ever-growing body of evidence has shown that psychodynamic therapy (PDT) and psychoanalysis reduce symptoms as effectively as other treatments, and in some cases the evidence even suggests that the benefits of PDT are more durable than other treatments."

https://t.co/w6YkFZnkkr

[Kurt @kay_d_ess]

@the_mel_jar An incredibly interesting idea! How does Lacan conceptualise psychological change? If there was such a thing as a “goal” of an analysis would it be to become less neurotic or less psychotic? Or does he not think in these terms?

[Kurt @kay_d_ess]

I had a clinical supervisor who would often chastise me for breaches of what he deemed “common sense.” My response was always, “common to whom?!”

[Lacan Circle Of Australia @lacancircle]

“I absolutely do not believe in common sense. There is sense, but there is no common variety.

In all likelihood, not a single one of you hears me in the same sense as another.

Furthermore, I endeavour to make it so that access to this meaning is not so easy, which entails ...

[Kurt @kay_d_ess]

Good analogy for therapists.

[JP @PoetryofAfter]

Miles Davis: “Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.”

“It’s not the note you play that’s the wrong note – it’s the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.”

[Dan Johnson @DanJohnsonAB]

New Zealand is doing what Canada is unable to do: holding an inquiry to investigate Prozac and similar drugs killing adolescents.

Link in the comments.

[Kurt @kay_d_ess]

I’ve experienced just this! So thankful for PsyDyn. perspectives.

[Kurt @kay_d_ess]

An interesting and important read. More to come.

[Kurt @kay_d_ess]

Researchers = obsessive
Clinicians = depressive
…and other generalisations.

[Kurt @kay_d_ess]

@DrWinarick I always enjoy this post. Do you think there needs to be more work disentangling schizoid states from autism? Or is there already an answer to this question? One might imagine onset as a useful distinguishing factor but can be difficult to parse in history.

[Jonathan Shedler @JonathanShedler]

❌Therapist: “This is a safe space”

✅ Therapist: “We just met. Of course you’re concerned about whether to trust me w something so personal”

✅ Therapist: “Help me understand what might make you feel more comfortable or less comfortable talking to me”

Bullshit vs authenticity

[Kurt @kay_d_ess]

@darrenm__ I’ll definitely be reading this! As an aside, I often return to McWilliams topic on the paper for relief. Such a warm and wanting-to-understand tone.

[Kurt @kay_d_ess]

@darrenm__ Very cool!
I would be very interested in hearing more about that course with Don if you choose to take it.

[mrs. wind up bird @pop_mycology]

Skin sometimes pops up as a metaphor in psychoanalytic thought—Klein's "second skin," Kristeva's description of the abject as the skin that forms on the surface of milk. Are there any others?

[Glenn Sullivan @drglennsullivan]

The more I look into it, the more it seems to me that Aaron Beck didn’t set out to topple psychodynamic psychotherapy (PDT). PDT had already been toppled by the advent of psych meds. What Beck did was to restore the viability of psychotherapy as a treatment option by showing that CBT could get results equivalent to antidepressant (AD) meds. The thing was, when he first did his studies, patients didn’t take AD meds for years or a lifetime, like they do now. Depressed patients took tricyclic antidepressants like imipramine for 16-20 weeks (and were glad to stop then due to the side effects). So Beck’s therapy had to be time-limited or it wouldn’t be seen as equivalent to the meds.

The struggle wasn’t CBT v. PDT. It was psychotherapy v. medication.

[Kurt @kay_d_ess]

When we deny guilt, we deny a central part of our psychic reality.

[Kurt @kay_d_ess]

@pop_mycology 🤣

[Kurt @kay_d_ess]

A beautiful reading. Also, neurotic anxiety!

[Allie Esiri, Poetry curator @AllieEsiri]

Happy National Poetry Day!

This is Helena Bonham Carter reading 'I Worried' by Mary Oliver, with its wonderful message at the end...

[Tanya Talaga @TanyaTalaga]

On this National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, its time for reflection, action. Ottawa continues to fight St. Anne’s Indian Residential School Survivors, by failing to comply with a 2014 Court Order for disclosure of documents. ⁦⁦⁦@NANComms⁩ https://t.co/0BZLLYEEDe