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Caught By The Tides by Jia Zhangke, 2024

If you are supervising an international student who is trying to write in their non-native language - tell them how awesome they are. They often feel incompetent, frustrated and even stupid. In reality they're really smart - just doing something very complicated. Tell them.

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This is old, but it’s relevant now: A JFK conspiracy theorist dies and arrives in heaven, where God is there to receive him. “Welcome,” God said. “You are allowed to ask me one question, and I will answer honestly.” Without hesitating, the conspiracy theorist asks, “Who really

— George Atwood The Lost Childhood of the Therapist

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Adam Phillips “If you want to have a relationship with someone you have to become a problem for them.”

This - and there may be many other very good practical, situational reasons for why people make use of it.

I'm doing my Folklore Studies dissertation on storytelling in English pubs! Ever heard a story in a pub that defied belief? Do you know of a pub regular who's regarded as a legend? Please take my survey if so and help me on my quest: forms.office.com/e/8tX4g94L6u

1/6 The goal of psychotherapy is to insert spaces for noticing and reflecting where space has not previously existed—and thereby create opportunities to know ourselves more fully, connect with others more deeply, and live our lives more congruently

Kohut became dissatisfied with Freudian orthodoxy & set out a new framework based on a psychology of the self. A brave move. But it raised lots of issues, some of which he seems to have struggled to deal with. That's the danger of killing sacred cows. wittgensteinfreud.blog/2025/05/09/koh…

“The capacity to mentalize frees a person from the tyranny of a world of psychic equivalence (if I feel it, it must be true), and allows for the beginning of real relatedness.” - David Shaddock

I am both very relieved (and rather anxious) that this paper on the 'Impossibility' of working in the current NHS has been published- I have been working on it since leaving the NHS in 2018. I am trying to be as 'truthful' about my own experience as I feel I can be. I hope you

I'm going to give a short talk on Wilhelm Reich at the Magick Without Tears pub moot, The Fitzroy Tavern, Charlotte Street on Thursday the 19th (next Thurs), pls come if yr around, retweets appreciated.

I think I thought that when I hit okayness, it would be like, everything felt okay all the time. But it's more like, even when things feel extremely not okay, they're still okay

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In 1919, Bertrand Russell expressed his shock upon realising that Wittgenstein had become a true mystic. At the time, Wittgenstein was reading Kierkegaard and Angelus Silesius with fervent devotion and was contemplating a monastic life.