The Inner Canvas Collective

Dr. Elyssa | Complexity, nuance, and curiosity. Keeping it passionate and expressive.

[The Inner Canvas Collective @theInnerCanvas]

Freud once said that the worst training for psychoanalysis is medical school, and the best is literature, art, history, poetry, and philosophy. :)

[exisdential @exisdential]

Think it’s crucial people who enter the mental health profession especially those who do therapeutic work regularly, to read literature, take an interest in the arts, poetry, film, mythology, religion etc.
human suffering is not something a therapeutic ‘modality’ fixes.

[The Mel Jar @the_mel_jar]

The intimacy may seem as if it is only going “one way,” but both parties in an analysis have an unconscious, so on that level, no, things are indeed going “both ways.”

[The Inner Canvas Collective @theInnerCanvas]

@the_mel_jar Toooooooo good!!!! 🔥

[The Inner Canvas Collective @theInnerCanvas]

@the_mel_jar treatsss

[The Inner Canvas Collective @theInnerCanvas]

@Ravankavosh @jordanticus Yes can be used to hide behind consciously or unconsciously.

[The Inner Canvas Collective @theInnerCanvas]

Theory is important, but it is not everything. Becoming too absorbed in theory can remove the therapist from the intuitive, felt sense that emerges in treatment. Theory is helpful when it allows us to listen more deeply to our patients...each time differently, and with no guarantees! We are talking about the unconscious here, peeps.

[The Inner Canvas Collective @theInnerCanvas]

@jesusrglez 🫡

[The Inner Canvas Collective @theInnerCanvas]

"Analysts must be alert to remaining alive and creative, ready to let themselves be surprised, educated, and unsettled."
-Mathelin

[The Inner Canvas Collective @theInnerCanvas]

Children's drawings, like dreams, must remain close to the child's associations. We must remain open while at the same time, avoid deviating from what the child has brought into the playroom (treatment, analysis).

[The Inner Canvas Collective @theInnerCanvas]

This one has the @the_mel_jar fans/haters in order: Lacan downplayed his position as a theory builder because he was intent on proving that he remained, despite all odds, true to Freud's deepest insights. Since Lacan was very insistent on keeping Freudian concepts as the raw material of his theory, Lacanian analysts of the second generation have followed in his footsteps and have continued to read Freud to expand the large structure that has been laid out...
-Mathelin

[Kemtrup @KemtrupTweets]

2. Learn to “shut the fuck up” especially early in treatment and early in each session. We all are used to reciprocal conversations that “flow” back and forth. Psychotherapy must have a different flow and most therapists and pts will experience silence as outside of this flow. 5/

[The Inner Canvas Collective @theInnerCanvas]

Sometimes you win; other times you learn. Sometimes you do not learn or win at all. Or a third thing, no one can predict or tell you, because life is complex, and you decided to live in the reality of not knowing.

[The Inner Canvas Collective @theInnerCanvas]

@yalexos wtp, always. xoxox your depressive therapist friend

[The Inner Canvas Collective @theInnerCanvas]

@the_mel_jar @LurkingJenny haha!

[Alexander Scherbatskoy @yalexos]

I was going to do a thread on the depressive therapist, but then I figured it would be inadequate and everyone would be dissatisfied. So what’s the point.

[The Inner Canvas Collective @theInnerCanvas]

@darrenhabermft @yalexos 🤣😇

[The Inner Canvas Collective @theInnerCanvas]

Head in the clouds. Feet on the ground.

[The Inner Canvas Collective @theInnerCanvas]

@jordanticus @lacreshahall Oy.

[The Inner Canvas Collective @theInnerCanvas]

@lacreshahall @jordanticus Ohhhh!!!

[The Inner Canvas Collective @theInnerCanvas]

@yalexos Haha what you got in your garden?!