Most new year's resolutions fail because they are usually impulsively chosen, not considered deeply enough, and not worked through and committed to properly. Here's my toolkit so you can start now and be raring to go come January:
www.aaronbalick.com/post/new-yea...
Phillips to Avgi: "What do you hate about psychoanalysis?"
A rare kind of playful jousting and intellectual flirting between two thoughtful psychoanalysts by @redclinic.bsky.social. Each person always expanding the conversation in new directions. Highly recommend.
youtu.be/9RdcWbyP9qM?...
friends! this coming February I'm teaching my
@brooklyninstitute.bsky.social seminar on Freud's Case Studies! What was Freud actually like as a clinician? What were the real stories of figures like The Rat Man, the Wolf Man and others? And how did Freud's patients remember him, in their own words?
'Tis the season...for rupture and repair!
#couplestherapy #therapistsconnect
www.ambreassociates.com/blog/the-ent...
Understanding the relationship between self-perceived food addiction, body image, and disordered eating is key to choosing a treatment option that’s right for you. 👇👇
#foodaddiction #bodyimage #therapistsky #therapistsconnect
www.ambreassociates.com/blog/what-is...
'Tis the season...for rupture and repair!
#couplestherapy #therapistsconnect
www.ambreassociates.com/blog/the-ent...
Cartoon of a person playing fetch with their dog. The person is thinking "I love how he finds joy in the simple things," and the dog is thinking, "the emotional burden of alleviating his depression is crushing me"
🚨 NEW UNLOCKED EPISODE🚨 The first of our classic two-part Thanksgiving Special! We tackle the so-called "Holiday Syndrome," the family scene in all its yearning and pain, what it means to regress, why holiday dishes resemble baby food, and more!
ordinaryunhappiness.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...
We don’t have relationships to get our needs met, we have relationships to discover what our needs might be.
-- Adam Phillips
"It is as though we give ourselves permission to acknowledge the power of adolescent love in stories, but cannot acknowledge it publicly about ourselves."
My article about teenage love now online
www.theguardian.com/science/2024...
As depicted in Showtime’s docuseries “Couples Therapy,” one of the primary goals of treatment is to help couples revise the story of their relationship.
www.ambreassociates.com/blog/revisin...
Full-blown anxiety signals that one’s usual -- automatic or reflexive -- defensive arsenal is failing and that “dangerous” feelings are now threatening to come into consciousness. In this apparent threat, however, lies a real opportunity for growth.
www.ambreassociates.com/blog/how-psy...
Starter packs are genius, but I was surprised there wasn't a list of them for people to find.
So I built it:
blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...
The website monitors the packs being shared and adds the ones it finds to the database.
Missed your stater pack? Message me and I'll get it added.
For more on dreams and contemporary psychotherapy:
www.ambreassociates.com/blog/dreams-...
For more on dreams and contemporary psychotherapy:
www.ambreassociates.com/blog/dreams-...
Paul Lippmann develops the notion of dream “conversations” so as to position the therapist as an interlocutor and listener of a patient’s dreams. The point isn't to jettison interpretation but to “help create the conditions from which interpretations will show themselves if they wish.”
I’m trying to get back into the flow here in the good place, because 2024 has so far been a lot, and I desperately miss my #TherapistsConnect peeps - where’s everyone at?
"Public discussions of hope tend to disavow our ambivalence about it, as though hope were an unalloyed good and the sole issue is whether it’s available. But the reality on the ground (and in therapy offices) suggests otherwise."
www.ambreassociates.com/blog/sustain...
"The conundrum isn’t just that I can’t hope without fearing, it’s that my fears and hopes are bound up with yours in complex and mutually intensifying ways."
www.ambreassociates.com/blog/the-ent...
(Grover voice): Experience near...and far!
Devorah Baum, author of "On Marriage," in conversation with psychoanalyst and couple therapist Orna Guralnik
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrBI...
Receiving a first-time ADHD diagnosis as an adult poses many challenges. Among them is determining appropriate treatment beyond medication. Therapy provides a safe space for adults to view their ADHD holistically and learn to manage its symptoms. Read more👇👇
www.ambreassociates.com/blog/late-ad...
Wanting to make a future better than the present and the past is a good project but a bad obsession.
-- Adam Phillips
b. The formation is related to a multiplicity of unconscious elements which may be organized in different meaningful sequences, each having its own specific coherence at a particular level of interpretation. This second reading is the generally accepted one.
-- L & P
a. The formation in question is the result of several causes, since one alone is not sufficient to account for it.
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OVERDETERMINATION
The fact that formations of the unconscious (symptoms, dreams, etc.) can be attributed to a plurality of determining factors. This can be understood in two different ways:
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