The real “best therapists” know how to engage differences with differentiated interest … helping clients to influence themselves into new patterns
The faux “best therapists” have read volumes of psychological arcana and really, really understand psychopathology
BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors
Emotional Agility is more like CBT or classical psychoanalysis than an true #embodied POV b/c managing emotional intensity means separating from the direct experience by “thinking” about it
Whereas #embodiment directly engages the physicality, the phenomenology of the moment
Dave Willat was just 11 years old when he showed up for what he thought would be a routine church choir practice in 1965. He and his fellow singers ended up making history. n.pr/3KZCl3a
“For the first time in history, the United States voted against the UN General Assembly’s periodic resolution condemning torture.”
www.justsecurity.org/126649/does-...
A tell-tale sign of a relative failure to emotionally self-regulate?
… the focus on regulating another
… points also to boundary confusion
I love how one set of minds at a certain place and time will see something and call it “pigeon” … where another people at another time might call this “purple” … I find that magical, not conflictual
Proper terminology is not the same as effective psychology
Psychology becomes more insightful when those who practice are willing to update, revise & delete “favorite” terms
When clinicians refuse to let language evolve, they end up treating the term instead of the person
My house came with a bunch of these cat warmers pre-installed
Some people struggle b/c they “think too much” and “cannot feel”
Others struggle b/c they “feel too much” and “cannot think”
Psychotherapies that see everyone needing one of these solutions, instead of understanding the contextual, dynamic person … can create harm
I’d bet that all the top coach buyouts from public universities are funded through their self-sustaining / highly profitable football operations … no research professors are filling 100k $tadiums to watch them work
That shit’s contagious!
80 years ago on this day, the #NurembergTrials started.
What have they taught us about the human condition?
Have we learned the lesson?
Apologies, I find can only offer smug slogans
Well, we know that people who make extraordinary claims show hypertrophy of the default mode network with corresponding hypoactivity in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex
What’s the difference between compromise and capitulation? Compromise trades concessions. Capitulation pays ransom to stop deliberate suffering, and teaches your opponent that coercion works. There are effective responses to coercive bargaining. What we saw was not one of them.
One of my ❤️’s
I always appreciated magical realism because the magic happened “in the real world” … not apart from it
Missing this guy right now
My off-the-cuff #opinion
people “on the left” fear exposure, social judgment
people “on the right” fear restrictions, social requirements
Understanding unconscious projective dynamics does not grant anyone immunity, escape or mastery of their own unconscious projective dynamics
Mostly b/c humans are built this way
When predictive processing gets real: motor cortex dynamics shaped by expectations of sensory feedback, not just planned movement
“Emotions are social in nature. We...communicate and share them with others. Copying emotions, like fear, is a fundamental part of the way we understand each other."
Pleasure to speak with Sarah Philip for Popular Science about fear contagion.
www.popsci.com/health/how-f...
My kiddo is reading that book right now! The boy-bird bond is so sweet.
If you have a body, you are #embodied … even if you never, ever think about your body
An embodied POV doesn’t ask IF you embody
An embodied POV asks HOW you embody
and IF you can modify HOW you embody when you want to
All while discussing your partner, kid, job, life, etc
#shitposting
