Psychoanalytic neutrality is for the consulting room and needs to be distinguished from allowing oneself to be neutered as a citizen. Hanna Segal

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Diane Keaton's classic line in Annie Hall "You know, you’re so egocentric that if I miss my therapy, you can only think of it in terms of how it affects you."

Zack Polanski, "I'm Jewish, and the reason why that's relevant is because I'm one of five Jewish people to lead a political party in the last 100 years" "So I take antisemitism really seriously" "In the same way, I take Islamophobia really seriously" "Because I recognise when

"I've decided that the world is made up of people that split and people that don't split" "Yeah I hate all those splitters" "We are definitely the non splitters !!" 🤔🤔🤔

Nice description of mirroring and symbolization....the road to MBT.. Fonagy et al.

"The child's stubborn belief in the badness or unlovability of herself will cause her to resist typical interventions intended to enlist an adaptive adult perspective towards that child self." "This is a child perspective masquerading as an adult speaking" Phil Manfield.

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Sometimes when we focus too much on genetic interpretations patients end up understanding why they are feeling something without actually experiencing what they are feeling... Paraphrased from Robert Drozec (MBT for Pathological Narcissm)

An important point to bear in mind when thinking about transference. "Most experiences of the patient about the clinician are based on reality, even if on a partial connection to it or an exaggerated component". Bateman and Fonagy (2016)

Absolutely spot on.. Even worse for consultant psychiatrists and the same impact on patients. Administrative overload harms patient care | The BMJ

Hannah Decker (2013) on the refusal of psychoanalysts to take seriously matters of psychiatric nosology: "The analysts bring to mind the men who refused to look through Galileo's telescope because they were sure they knew the true heavens and did not want challenges and upsets."

I expect them to check everything I say with Chatpt, there are in fact at least 3 of us in the virtual room at any point in time... The omnipotent, idealised projections now belong to Dr GPT.

I've now started to ask patients of a certain age if they can show me their Chatpt mental health diagnosis, formulation and treatment plan. Makes for quite an interesting discussion and saves me looking it up 🤔

From the triad we see so often in our patients of victim, perpetrator and bystander. "When you disown, the wounded child, then disown the perpetrator within, all that is left is to be a bystander to your own perpetual torment."

Interesting article... https://t.co/QUm4P5uiHD

3 pages of Fairbairn giving both barrels all the way back in 1939 !!

Sometimes the corrective emotional that the psyche seeks is carried out externally as the most horrific crime/act. Primary process becomes external reality.

Dropping a corrective emotional experience into a traumatic memory is one of the most profound things in psychotherapy.

"Sometimes when the perpetrator lives in our minds there is no room for the original inhabitant"... A.Psychiatrist.

"It is the feeling of danger in committing himself and abandoning doubts about another that prevents the obsessional from falling in love". The psychodynamics of doubting from the Treatment of the Obsessional Personality. Leon Salzman.