Derek van Zoonen

Philosopher @ University of Oslo
In training @ Hakomi Institute of Mindfulness-Based Somatic Psychotherapy
Facilitator @

[Axial Wanderer @EricWollberg]

It is curious that if you continue to increase the consciousness of an organism it all of the sudden begins to pray.

[Sarah Mergen @nekyias]

what are some of the biggest shifts that relaxed your depression? Looking for anything from realizations to new habits to practices to just getting a new job. crucially though I am mostly curious about “shift” moments, where things were at least 20% better than they were before

[katie kadue @kukukadoo]

keeping this simone weil passage taped to my computer monitor as i write my second academic book

[Jonathan Shedler @JonathanShedler]

On the value of self-report data in psych and social science research...

[Jim Fanara @jimfanara]

tech bros and finance guys make fun of the psych and philosophy majors in school then spend the next 25 years reading basic pop-psych and philosophy books declaring them to be revolutionary

[Robin Carhart-Harris @RCarhartHarris]

“Psychedelic” is an adjective first and a noun second.

[Poetic Outlaws @OutlawsPoetic]

“If you're trapped in the dream of the Other, you're fucked.”

― Gilles Deleuze

[C.G. Jung Foundation @cgjungny]

"The world will ask you who you are, and if you do not know, the world will tell you." - C.G. Jung

[cheyene norah @onlyyagirl_]

Can’t wait for another week to begin…

[CoffeeWithTheClassics @CoffeewClassics]

C.S. Lewis, how did you understand human nature so well?

[Istra of Glome @byistra]

St. Augustine with a wake up call

[Nix 🕊 @startingfromnix]

the best conversationalists are truly curious about the vivid interiority of another person.

[Jonathan Shedler @JonathanShedler]

1/ Listening non-judgmentally is not something therapists learn from a book or class. It takes years of work

We can listen without judging because we have examined the dark corners of our own souls in personal psychotherapy. What you think shocking, we know to be simply human

[Ruben Laukkonen @RubenLaukkonen]

This is the big thing we need to collectively acknowledge, then get on with the renaissance:

FIBUS: False Insights & Beliefs under Psychedelics
Out now in @Nature’s @commspsychol ( 🧵)

Hugh McGovern, @HilaryGrimmer, @ManojDoss, @B_Hutchy, @neurodelia, @aidanlyon, @PhilCorlett1

[Jonathan Shedler @JonathanShedler]

Do not go to psychotherapy thinking it will affirm your understanding of yourself & others

If your perceptions & understandings served you, you’d have no need for therapy

Real psychotherapy will shake your soul to its foundation

And if it’s not real psychotherapy—why bother?

[Max Wolff @trpwolff]

Ignore the misleading description of psychedelic therapy in the title ("adding psychotherapy to drug therapy"). This is a very reasonable take by Tom Insel.

https://t.co/lxVgAbwZ1S

[anna @moonbeeaam]

saying that someone is depressed because of chemicals in their brain is like saying that someone is waving because of muscles in their arm