Daniel Smith

Psychotherapist. Books (Monkey Mind; Muses, Madmen, and Prophets). Journalism (NYer, NYT Mag, LRB, etc.). HARD FEELINGS out from Simon & Schuster in March.

[Daniel Smith @morbidorigin]

Coming in March ...

[Daniel Smith @morbidorigin]

Tonight. Larchmont. I'll be talking about my book Hard Feelings, and envy, boredom, anger, psychotherapy, & writing. I'll try to tell some jokes! I'd love to see you there. Pro tip: You don't need to buy the book to attend. And there's no game tonight so there are fewer excuses!

[Daniel Smith @morbidorigin]

@DavidPuder Yikes.

[Daniel Smith @morbidorigin]

@DavidPuder @grok Nailed it.

[Daniel Smith @morbidorigin]

Westchester folks! I'll be coming to Larchmont on Thursday, June 4, to talk about my new book HARD FEELINGS, in collaboration with The Idea Kitchen and J. Anderson's Books. I'd love to see you!

[Daniel Smith @morbidorigin]

@jamesamarcus Congratulations! That's great!!

[Daniel Smith @morbidorigin]

Tomorrow (Tue) night, if you live on Long Island.

[Emily Bobrow @EmilyBobrow]

Guys, @morbidorigin wrote another wise, sharp, and heartfelt book. It’s called HARD FEELINGS and it’s personal—about what to do with and how to think about dark emotions (his, mine, yours)—and it’s out now.

[Daniel Smith @morbidorigin]

The Atlantic has published an excerpt from my forthcoming (3/3) book HARD FEELINGS. It's about boredom, and meaning, and being a parent.
https://t.co/BL53vk4ebR

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

“That I loved my daughter was never in doubt. My problem was that I didn’t much like being a father,” @morbidorigin writes. “From a life of freedom and agency I had entered a life of white-noise machines, parenting manuals, and fatigue.” https://t.co/EXeWgy6Vwl

[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

This is a warmly touching, brilliant example of Stephen Koch's prose; & a glimpse into a most unusual friendship.

[Daniel Smith @morbidorigin]

@DrGipps @awaisaftab @ProfRobHoward Not a psychiatrist but I've done a lot of thinking about this. I think no. https://t.co/YpOwi2MzKS

[Daniel Smith @morbidorigin]

@JonathanShedler I say this both as a therapist and as a journalist.

[Daniel Smith @morbidorigin]

This podcast ep with @JonathanShedler is more than two years old and the audio stinks but all (or a lot of) psychotherapists should listen to it. https://t.co/SqZMOkZaiR

[Daniel Smith @morbidorigin]

@JonathanShedler It was an important and *fair* discussion. What the research actually shows, not what it seems to show—and what it is set up to show, what it is capable, given both the parameters and the nature of the enterprise, of showing—is far too often left out of the discourse.

[Daniel Smith @morbidorigin]

@DavidPuder Okay that's the part I really wanted the writer to dilate on: the expansion of IFS into the "spiritual" realm. That shit is dangerous. Say what you will of CBT, but I think Beck's greatest legacy is his total and vigorous rejection of guru-ism.

[James Marcus @jamesamarcus]

For The New Yorker, I wrote about my daughter's transition at age 26--the initial surprise, and the long, edifying period of adjustment, which has transformed us both (and which isn't over yet).
https://t.co/QHWzKAHDMS

[Daniel Smith @morbidorigin]

@DavidPuder Would love to talk to you about this. It's an odd piece in that it's kind of about a bunch of things at once: the IFS equivalent of wild psychoanalysis; the guru model of psychotherapy; therapy training and $; the troubled teen industry ... the clinical complexities get lost

[Daniel Smith @morbidorigin]

@JonathanShedler It was interesting to read this sentence high up in the piece: "In IFS, a part isn’t a metaphor." I've always understood "parts" to be metaphorical. How else could one possibly think of them?

[Daniel Smith @morbidorigin]

@schwarz_seher Fuck. I'm so sorry to hear this. This has happened to be and it SUCKS. I have no good advice at the moment, just fellow feeling. It's one of the reasons I mostly stopped doing journalism.

[Daniel Smith @morbidorigin]

@mariabamfoo Wish I could go see this.