Clinical Psychologist; post-seminar Psychoanalyst-in-Training at the New Center for Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles ; https://nitter.cf/t.co/6MHnsxesF6
Joined April 2009
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When psychotherapists are more able to inhabit the fullness of themselves, spontaneity may manifest primarily internally, in restraint, listening, and fantasy. We bear, survive, invite, and cultivate beyond words. We communicate our aliveness and presence without needing to talk.
Jayce Long retweeted
Based on two previous polls, I wanted to do one more. You get to choose one group to inform your clinical work…
23%Freudian-Lacanian
34%Independent-Obj.Relations
18%Kleinian-Bionian
26%Relational-Interpersonal
74 votes • 7 hoursBased on two previous polls, I wanted to do one more. You get to choose one group to inform your clinical work…
23%Freudian-Lacanian
34%Independent-Obj.Relations
18%Kleinian-Bionian
26%Relational-Interpersonal
74 votes • 7 hours Jayce Long retweeted
You get to choose one group to inform your clinical work?
(More options in thread below)
11%Kohut/Wolf/Stolorow
7%Mitchell/Aron/Benjamin
67%Fairbairn/Winnicot/Bollas
15%Lacan/Leader/Fink
131 votes • Final results Jayce Long retweeted
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42%Klein/Joseph/Steiner
9%Sullivan/Levenson/Hirsch
3%A.Freud/Mahler/Brenner
45%Bion/Grotstein/Ferro
33 votes • Final resultsYou get to choose one group to inform your clinical work?
(More options in thread below)
11%Kohut/Wolf/Stolorow
7%Mitchell/Aron/Benjamin
67%Fairbairn/Winnicot/Bollas
15%Lacan/Leader/Fink
131 votes • Final resultsCool to see influential plurality. The Interpersonal # was surprising. Where are all my Independents?
Bion/BFT 22 (12%)
Ego Psychology 14 (8%)
Interpersonal 27 (15%)
Klein 44 (25%)
Lacan 14 (8%)
Middle Group/Ind. 12 (7%)
Self Psychology/IST 11 (6%)
Relational 33 (19%)
(n = 177)
Jayce Long retweeted
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20%Lacan
17%Middle Group/Ind.
16%Self Psychology/IST
47%Relational
70 votes • Final results Jayce Long retweeted
What psychoanalytic theory/theorists is most influential in your clinical work?
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21%Bion/BFT
13%Ego Psychology
25%Interpersonal
40%Klein
107 votes • Final results Jayce Long retweeted
That which we cannot verbalize, we tend to enact with others, to evoke in others, and/or to embody.
— David Wallin
Attachment in Psychotherapy
What psychoanalytic theory/theorists is most influential in your clinical work?
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21%Bion/BFT
13%Ego Psychology
25%Interpersonal
40%Klein
107 votes • Final resultsI’d argue psychoanalysis is about inviting people to develop structural capacities to better psychologically run, sit, climb, let go, look out/in, and accept not knowing what is needed, along a dynamically changing journey of life. There is no summit, only those who feel…
To say, “it’s all grist for the mill,” versus to inhabit said sensibility; two drastically different processes.
“From my experience working with therapists, many suffer from being too passive, masochistic, and conflict-avoidant. Often motivated by the need to heal a depressed or otherwise emotionally disturbed family member, therapists gravitate toward soothing and peacemaking behaviors…”
“Having inhabited this role as children when they were powerless to change their parents' behaviors or attitudes, their single-minded empathic devotion was adaptive. They were not in a position to confront their parents and naturally wanted any parental conflict to…”