Sadaf

She/her. Therapist. Founder @GuftaguTherapy. Interests - mental health, social justice, art, reading, podcasts, music, movies, shows. And cats!

[Sadaf @randomWhiz]

Hello folks! @GuftaguTherapy is the Twitter handle for my mental health venture! Finally I got to starting my own in 2021. Do follow for interesting takes and perspectives on mental health themes. We have an Instagram by the same name :)

[Jayce Long @JayceLong]

when we attend to feelings about what was missed, yearned for, covered in shame, or associated with hurt and rejection we are providing recognition of not “replacement for missed infantile experience”

— Jessica Benjamin
Tilting Back Toward Development

[Sadaf @randomWhiz]

This Bill risks jeopardising access to much-needed healthcare services and excludes those it must protect: TNM

Stop the arbitrary classification and invasive control of transgender persons

#RejectTransBill2026

[Jayce Long @JayceLong]

can I more deeply recognize who I am.

— Malcolm Slavin
On Recognizing the Psychoanalytic Perspective of the Other

[Jayce Long @JayceLong]

“beliefs inevitably clash at moments with someone they deeply love. Mother and analyst achieve the paradoxical recognition that while I must exist (deeply, empathically) for you, it is only in being for myself that I can be for you; and equally, that only in being for you…”

[Jayce Long @JayceLong]

“Winnicott's (1949) mother, who ‘hates her baby from the word go,’ and the analyst who, for Winnicott (1945), must express ‘the hate that co-exists with his love’ are complex beings who wrestle, over and over, with the existential implications of how their needs, agendas, and…”

[Jonathan Shedler @JonathanShedler]

Takeaways
1. Don’t sign on to “do therapy” without understanding the problem therapy is supposed to address
2. The way a referral is made is information—even if the person making the referral doesn’t know it

From: Glen Gabbard, Long-Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, 3rd Edition

[BrightonPsych @BrightonPsych]

Mindfulness has become a modern religion for people who don’t like religion: the NHS can now offer it as an “intervention”, business sells it as productivity, and the wellness industry markets it as a moral badge; calm becomes a commodity, and complexity gets edited out. 🧵

[Sadaf @randomWhiz]

@Mark_Solms Looking forward! Love the work you've done so far to help psychoanalysis be seen as legitimate

[Sadaf @randomWhiz]

Came up with this as our post on "how to work with oppression in the therapy room" summarising our blog on the same topic got a lot of traction. https://t.co/X41wmuaxYi see you for the discussion group!

[GuftaguTherapy @GuftaguTherapy]

Join us in understanding what can be done at the skill level when dealing with oppression and marginality in the therapy room, so your work with the client can go beyond affirmation

https://t.co/Thod2PPGRh

[Agents of Ishq @AgentsofIshq]

Aaj ka #SocietyPeSawaal hai Do Therapists ki diary se - @GuftaguTherapy ke Sadaf Vidha aur Aryan Somaiya ki taraf se!

[GuftaguTherapy @GuftaguTherapy]

From English Vinglish to Girls Will Be Girls, women’s sexuality has never looked just one way.
And maybe that’s the point.
Women’s desire has many rooms.
We should learn to let women walk through all of them.

[GuftaguTherapy @GuftaguTherapy]

We talk about masculinity like it belongs to men.
But the more we look at families, courts, pop culture, and even our own reactions, the clearer it becomes: masculinity is a shared defence system. A way all of us avoid truths that feel too dangerous to hold.

[Sadaf @randomWhiz]

Wrote after a while about connecting dots in clinical work. What do you think?

[GuftaguTherapy @GuftaguTherapy]

Naming is where awareness begins, not where it ends.

To work with oppression (in therapy or in life) means holding the pain of recognition without becoming paralysed by it.

[Chintan Girish Modi @chintanwriting]

A conversation between Chumki and Pihu in @basuanurag's film Metro...In Dino inspired this piece for @DeccanHerald, with inputs from @DrSujWell, @randomWhiz and @TanayaNarendra3. I hope it helps parents and teachers engaging with teenagers.
https://t.co/bIDJqWtfq5

[Jayce Long @JayceLong]

Winnicott believes that insofar as the child's continuity of being is concerned, there is nothing in his experiencing that is lost. In some form we remember everything, even though, as is certainly the case, most of what we know is unconscious.

— Christopher Bollas

[The Inner Canvas Collective @theInnerCanvas]

In psychoanalysis we are seeking to understand the repertoire of risks not taken.
- A. Phillips

[GuftaguTherapy @GuftaguTherapy]

Sometimes we hurt the people we love, not because we want to, but because we don’t realise we have.

[Sadaf @randomWhiz]

Urgent! The psychology profession is under threat! Are you a mental health practitioner or a user of therapy services? Please sign our https://t.co/WgFcSOEXer petition (https://t.co/xGHPpFY738) or

[Sadaf @randomWhiz]

send us an organization letterhead signed letter of support to [email protected]