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I teach/train/practice/think about therapy. Interests: disability, queerness, sexuality, psychoanalysis, workers’ rights, marginalisation. (she/her)

[Más maith leat @masmaithleat]

Thinking a lot about how to create alternative structures to allow for provision of more low cost therapy AND more paid opportunities for therapy trainees/better working conditions for therapists generally. 1/?

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I thought we’d have started problematising the distaste for sickness by now. Not just ‘does capitalism make us sick’ but also ‘does capitalism demand we disavow sickness’. I thought we’d be more troubled in a generative sort of way, less certain in a spacious sort of way.

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Logged into this account for the first time in a very long time and the calcified psychopathology discourse is going to see me logging straight back out again. Everyone’s become real sure of all the answers — and we somehow still haven’t discovered disability justice.

[The Red Clinic @RedClinic1917]

Solidarity with Lara Sheehi.

https://t.co/fQz2SKoTc2

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I want #TheUltimatumQueerLove again but this time I want Esther Perel hosting it 💥

[Ashley Feinberg (ashleyfeinberg.bsky.social) @ashleyfeinberg]

Royal guard solemnly entering the corgi wing of Buckingham palace and weeping as they tie tiny blindfolds on the dogs they've got left

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In other news I need to talk to someone who knows about emotionally focused therapy (EFT) but who doesn’t yet carry a tiny picture of Sue Johnson in their wallet, because I’m trying hard to separate model from hype

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Okay hear me out. Love Island, but at the end Orna Guralnik and her dog greet them instead of Laura Witmore and they go straight onto Couple Therapy

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@SarmientoVerano It doesn’t need to be served with anything, surely, since the potatoes go in the stew and become one with it?

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What’s described here are disability accomodations/reasonable adjustments. These are in no way unique to ADHD — why would you single it out in this way? This is discriminatory and stigmatising @guardian
https://t.co/uLi984x73o

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If you say it three times in front of a mirror, Martin McGuinness appears

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The way british news readers tremulously say ‘Sinn Féin’ though

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@DrRJChapman

[Dr. Daniel J. Winarick @DrWinarick]

The notion psychodynamic therapists shouldn’t or don’t give advice is misleading. I would argue that psychodynamic therapists give advice often, albeit often implicitly, indirectly, or just softly. The advice pertains to the stories that we tell ourselves or don’t tell ourselves.

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@geeriggle Had lunch the other day in Hay’s Galaria and it has a brill outdoor space that is completely covered overhead but very good air flow

[worms cited @christapeterso]

how much of people’s hate of masks is just them having emotional problems about the fact that things are and will continue to be very bad

[ADHD Jesse @adhdjesse]

There are several types of memory challenges for people with ADHD.

Most are familiar with long-term memory and working memory, but less well known is something called prospective memory.

[Kemtrup @KemtrupTweets]

So I’m very curious: What are people’s criticisms of psychoanalysis or psychodynamic therapy, either in part or whole, theory or technique. Let’s get it all down here in this thread. I won’t defend anything. Just wanna listen. Don’t worry if it’s “informed” or just an impression

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@FozzTheMozz @SurvivorsNotPD @Madnotbad60 Bromberg is good, so is Nancy McWilliams, and Marcus West has a book that is not explicitly/solely psychoanalytic but is underpinned by the same principles so functionally the same imo

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One of the most egregious examples I’ve seen of profiting from unpaid trainee therapist labour — this counselling organisation offers franchising. They explain how much profit you can anticipate annually once established. 150K suggested as reasonable expectation.

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Instagram is showing me a lot of ads for low cost therapy organisations! The majority of which appear to be for-profit companies whose profitability is made possible by simply not paying the trainee therapists who deliver the services. I’m going to thread examples below.