Ben
@misrecognitions
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Psychotherapist trainee | PhD religious studies | Philosophy, critical theory, psychoanalysis
Bay Area
Joined January 2021
None of you are beating the obsessive + hysteric allegations.
flirting as a man is about getting her to tell you what she wants without saying it and then very confidently giving it to her.
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Also aside from 3 month stints in NYC and Cornell and a couple conferences in Boston I am very unaccustomed to the East Coast.
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Some news: my gf has started a postdoc at Yale, so we’re leaving Berkeley for New Haven next month! Will be looking for friends/hangs and work as an LPC-A somewhere in CT amenable to psychoanalysis, psychodynamic therapy, etc.
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“…the more frequent manifestation of the primal father today is less the man who ‘enjoys’ women than as the man who ‘enjoys’ data.” —Darian Leader, Jouissance.
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Scientists really out here asking the Big Questions about Mental Health, folks.
Cat ownership is associated with a 2x odds of schizophrenia.
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I’ve recently experimented with Chat*** and so far it’s 1) failed to summarize all the chapters of a Zizek book, 2) made up a quote from Winnicott, and 3) referred me to a poem by Borges that does not exist.
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Humanists are taught to read this way from day one. This, I would argue, is why the humanities produce good therapists. These skills are transferable to reading people, too.
The best way to read psychotherapy texts and great literature is slow, with a pen, mindful of free associations, open to learning something new, ready for a new discovery, and a deepening of your own inner reflectiveness. What book would you most recommend to read in this way.
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Freudo-Marxism stays winning.
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A lot of you would benefit from reading Freud’s “On the universal tendency to debasement in the sphere of love”.
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How long until we’re doing AI therapy with AI generated patient prompts for AI induced psychosis
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No one will ever be able to convince me that psychoanalysis isn’t true.
Thumb sucking isn’t just for babies. Done consciously, it’s one of the most powerful tools to regulate your nervous system, calm your mind, and release fascia in the face, jaw, and neck. But it also tones key muscles you never think about.
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I think my irritation with the mental health field is turning me into a Lacanian despite myself.
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Buying 133 year old prints of Gustave Doré’s illustrations of Dante’s Inferno for my future office at the antique store in rural California.
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Funny moment yesterday in analysis where I was saying how soothing it was to organize pdf’s of books on my computer and he goes “ah yes, gathering the bits” and I was like “okay yeah here comes Melanie”.
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One time I remember my advisor describing all of the hermeneutical speculation we do in intellectual history as “the fun part” lol.
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This guy knows.
90’s grunge with gen-z existencial writing. literally a generational artist…we didn’t get this kind of revivalism in the early 2000’s
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