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"If we are correct about the centrality of practical wisdom to the management of our social relations, people who go about cultivating and deploying their signature strengths without such wisdom may end up leaving a good deal of human wreckage in their wake. You may feel good, 👇

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"I don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves" - Bobby Fischer

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The ‘‘HOW DO I LOOK?’’ case. Much more relevant, I'd say, that most of so called "dilemmas" typical of the 20th century moral philosophy... "You are keeping your best friend company as she gets dressed to go to a wedding... 👇

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After an impressive talk by Sahanika Ratnayake we're just about to complete the 6th edition of the IAPIS series with a talk by Havi Carel (@bristoluni.bsky.social‬). Please do feel invited to register: forms.gle/fzfCr5CaF6yu... and participate... @lisabortolotti.com

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"The role of therapist as adviser, guide, or partner in Socratic dialogue will always be a component of psychotherapy. This much I believe to be certain. What is uncertain is what capacities and conceptualizations therapists of the future will bring to these ministrations... 👇

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"Conventional conceptions of psychotherapy hold that the client's emotions are a principal focus of psychotherapy but that the client's value system should not be tampered with. Influencing the client's values, it is thought, would constitute a departure from objective and... 👇

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"The history of behavior therapy provides us with an instructive example of the difficulties inherent in attempts to erect a value-free technology of behavior change. No other system of psychotherapy sought so self-consciously to establish itself as a 'pure' technology... 👇👇👇

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“Remember that shoe you used to wear, the one that had the hole in the bottom? That’s what helped me the most” or the shoe-hole-focused therapy (SHFT) "Early in my career I was treating a 21-year-old man with schizophrenia...After 2 years of treatment,I needed to terminate... 👇

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"Having come to behavioral treatment from psychoanalytic treatment, it was a culture shock, to say the least... Steve was down-to-earth, matter-of-fact, direct and welcoming. It was disarming that he asked me to address him by his first name; I wondered how competent he could be" 🤣🤣🤣

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"For although in a certain sense and for light-minded persons non-existent things can be more easily and irresponsibly represented in words than existing things, for the serious and conscientious historian it is just the reverse... 👇👇👇

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"This is my last book on Buddhism. Whether any of the anecdotes, thoughts and conclusions appearing in this book are really Buddhist I couldn't say. The teaching is deep. I have scratched the surface. I hope I scratched right" @sethzuihosegall.com @femimind.bsky.social

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"Kernberg and Linehan: Two Approaches to the Borderline Patient" by Charles Swenson (1989) One of the earliest (if not the earliest!) direct comparison of Otto Kernberg's TFP and Marsha Linehan's DBT @AllenFrancesMD @GoldfriedMarvin @DrGipps @MarkLRuffalo guilfordjournals.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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"I had a cousin once who studied trigonometry until his whiskers drooped, and when he had learnt it all a Groke came and ate him up. Yes, so wise he was while lying in the Groke’s stomach!" - Moominpappa's Memoirs @moomindaily.bsky.social

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"I often walked at night because I couldn’t sleep. One night, I was walking back to the abbey and stood for a moment at a corner. Just standing. It dawned on me that what was going through my mind all the time was just soap operas... 👇👇👇

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'No problem. I can find a treatment for that' or DBT-before-D-was-added "The client would come in, we’d talk, she would tell me about her life problems and why life did not seem worth living. We had to discover which of her many problems was driving her suicidal behaviors... 👇👇👇

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Ian Hacking on "Making Up People" www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v2...

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"When, four months before his death, I had the opportunity to ask him why satori didn't figure in his book, his wife leaned toward me and whispered impishly, 'It's because he hasn't had it'" - Houston Smith on Shunryu Suzuki @sethzuihosegall.com

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"in the end it is not the extraordinariness of the teacher which perplexes, intrigues, and deepens the student, it is the teacher's utter ordinariness. Because he is just himself, he is a mirror for his students" - Trudy Dixon on Shunryu Suzuki @sethzuihosegall.com

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"We should give up the idea of classifying people as we do plants" - Adolf Meyer

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English academic giving talk in Japan in 80s. Spoke for 15 mins. Translator 1 min. Then same thing. And once more with applause. Bemused he asked a Japanese friend what the translator had said. “It’s about the rule of law but nothing new.” “Nothing new. Still’ “Still nothing. Please clap.”

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“No man ever steps in the same therapist's office twice, for it's not the same therapist and he's not the same man” - Heraclitus on coming back to the same psychotherapist/psychiatrist after having finished the first therapy

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"The modern state is in such dire need of the ever-increasing helplessness and unhappiness of its citizenry that the fulfillment of this need cannot be left to the well-intentioned but inept attempts of its individual citizens. As in all other walks of human life... 👇👇👇

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"The number of persons talented enough to create their own hell may seem relatively large. But many more are in need of help and encouragement. This little book is dedicated to them as an introductory text and the guideline.”

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“You must take your opponent into a deep dark forest where 2+2=5, and the path leading out is only wide enough for one.” - Mikhail Tal

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"Ten Ox Herding Pictures" (or "Ten Bulls") by Loyola Productions Munich GmbH Highly recommended! youtube.com/watch?v=6j98... @sethzuihosegall.com

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The 3 most common schemas among mental health professionals (as studied by Saddichha, Kumar & Pradhan, 2012) are: Unrelenting Standards, Self-Sacrifice, Emotional Deprivation and, well, Entitlement. shorturl.at/4qEJX

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"It is an increasingly rare spectacle nowadays to see someone attempting to stand intellectually upright outside the bounds of an ideological allegiance. It is rather like seeing someone trying to stand on the wing of a moving aeroplane... 👇👇👇

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Read "The Decline of Psychoanalysis and the Rise of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy" by Sahanika Ratnayake in the new issue of Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

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Sahanika Ratnayake does not stop! Just after having published a great paper for Philosophy,Psychiatry, & Psychology (see muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...) she is all ready to discuss the Dodo Bird Problem and the boundaries of therapy as a part of the IAPIS series. To register: forms.gle/sNqqDVG4Wvre...

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