Nathan Smith

Therapist, queer, interested in psychology, philosophy, literature, religion/spirituality. (he/him)

[Lindsay Snow, PhD @Lmsnow3]

For anyone asking what psychoanalysis offers, I'm always going to return to Winnicott:
"To be known in all one's bits and pieces."

[Nathan Smith @NateSmithSNF]

You can purchase Samuele Collu's Into the Loop: An Ethnography of Compulsive Repetition now for Kindle, or pre-order a paperback/hardback (to be released on January 6):
https://t.co/Vx1iH92vZ5

[Nathan Smith @NateSmithSNF]

I recently wrote a book review for the International Journal of Systemic Therapy on Samuele Collu's Into the Loop: An Ethnography of Compulsive Repetition!
https://t.co/0GYnzciC1V

[Nathan Smith @NateSmithSNF]

"Every breath we draw wards off the death that constantly impinges on us."
- Irvin Yalom

I just published "Cybernetic Death Drive: Toward a Therapeutic Mythos":
https://t.co/BMPyL6UDVn

[Duke University Press @DukePress]

Samuele Collu’s “Into the Loop” draws from affect theory, psychoanalysis, and phenomenology to ask how we can interrupt the repetitions that define us. Read the intro for free now, and pre-order the book for 50% off with coupon FALL25: https://t.co/f4NgAhRFFq

[Nathan Smith @NateSmithSNF]

@nyctherapist Sorry to see you go but completely understand! Dropped my email at the link, would love to stay in touch!

[Nathan Smith @NateSmithSNF]

You can find the rest of my essays on my profile here! I've covered a lot from psychology/neuroscience and therapy, religion and philosophy, and adjacent fields, so there's plenty to explore!
https://t.co/2RdaMZyF85

[Nathan Smith @NateSmithSNF]

I recently stepped away from the Medium Partner Program to make all my essays free and accessible to anyone who would like to read them.

I've posted to Medium for 8 years and my writing and views have evolved a good deal in that time, but here are some of my favorites essays:

[Nathan Smith @NateSmithSNF]

One of my most popular pieces, exploring consciousness, Ati Yoga/Dzogchen in Tibetan Buddhism, and the meditation deity Vajrakilaya:
https://t.co/xl8Qy4pzAU

[Awais Aftab @awaisaftab]

Grateful to see this layered and multifaceted discussion in the @nytimes by @EllenBarryNYT about recent work by @AlanLevinovitz and me on diagnosis and the Rumpelstiltskin effect (the therapeutic relief experienced on receiving a diagnosis)

[Nathan Smith @NateSmithSNF]

"Every breath we draw wards off the death that constantly impinges on us."
- Irvin Yalom

I just published "Cybernetic Death Drive: Toward a Therapeutic Mythos":
https://t.co/BMPyL6UDVn

[Dr Ana M @OnNegation]

Sigmund Freud and his beautiful writing:

"Every psychoanalytic treatment is an attempt at liberating repressed love which has found a meagre outlet in the compromise of a symptom."

[Nathan Smith @NateSmithSNF]

https://t.co/17Lenbltuu

[Nathan Smith @NateSmithSNF]

"Though they may serve a function, they can still 'malfunction,' or even only function for a privileged few. To tame the image, ... we must hone imagination — the true battleground of well-being."

I just published "Cybernetic Death Drive: Toward a Therapeutic Mythos"

[Dr. Linda Berman @LindaBerman4]

The experience of speaking from the heart and being taken seriously builds the psychic architecture that supports the capacity to bear life.

Nancy McWilliams PhD

#support #empathy #life

[David Whyte @poetdavidwhyte]

Sometimes
if you move carefully
through the forest,

breathing
like the ones
in the old stories,

who could cross
a shimmering bed of leaves
without a sound,

you come
to a place
whose only task

is to trouble you
with tiny
but frightening requests,

conceived out of nowhere
but in this place
beginning to lead everywhere.

Requests to stop what
you are doing right now,
and

to stop what you
are becoming
while you do it,

questions
that can make
or unmake
a life,

questions
that have patiently
waited for you,

questions
that have no right
to go away.

'Sometimes' in 'DAVID WHYTE: ESSENTIALS'
© 2020 David Whyte & Many Rivers Press
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