Agnes @agnesvirtually

Psychology, neuroscience, social policy. Current Affairs. Related and unrelated stuff. Small is beautiful. Joined April 2010

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Dr Ana M @OnNegation

3 days ago

Sigmund Freud making me promises in 'Studies in Hysteria': "...much will be gained if we succeed in turning your hysterical misery into common unhappiness. With a mental life that has been restored to health, you will be better armed against that unhappiness.”

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No BS Therapist @TweetATherapist

3 days ago

At some point in your maturation, the people closest to you need to be mature themselves—and to love themselves and their lives. People who are envious, who project assumptions onto you, or who are unfulfilled will likely struggle to support you. Choose your inner circle wisely.

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Dr James Davies (PhD) 💭 @JDaviesPhD

4 days ago

There’s a worrying resurgence in the mental health professions of pathologising young people’s legitimate political & social grievances - e.g. via claims young people are merely ‘externalising’ their internal deficits, with treatment (not activism) proposed as the right response.

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Agnes @agnesvirtually

2 days ago

Psychiatry: read this, then read it again.

Dr Joanna Moncrieff @joannamoncrieff

3 days ago

Psychiatry: read this, then read it again.

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Dr Joanna Moncrieff @joannamoncrieff

3 days ago

People knew this perfectly well until massive pharmaceutical and medical industry advertising persuaded them to change their minds

Dr. Roger McFillin @DrMcFillin

4 days ago

People knew this perfectly well until massive pharmaceutical and medical industry advertising persuaded them to change their minds

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Dr Ana M @OnNegation

3 days ago

Oh how I love Donald Winnicott: "I give interpretations for two reasons: to let the patient know I’m awake and to show the patient I can be wrong." #psychoanalysis

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Agnes @agnesvirtually

2 days ago

Voila! We must begin to talk about healing and recovery. As global north societies, we must start leaning into meaning as much as economies. Gen z need this as well as the climate. #MentalHealth #Psychology #Existentialism

Dr James Davies (PhD) 💭 @JDaviesPhD

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Agnes @agnesvirtually

a week ago

Validating. 💛 Your talking therapies work! A consultant I worked with didn’t think building insight mattered. Soul destroying to work with limiting views like this, I’m glad I’m no longer in a medical model service.

Dr. Jelena Kecmanovic @DrKPsychologist

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Dr. Josef 🇺🇸 @DrJosefWD

2 weeks ago

After 10 years as a psychiatrist, I accept the field was built on myths that kept me from truly helping patients. If I could go back and tell my younger self 10 things on day one of training, here’s what I’d say:

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Edward A. Perin - Psychologist @DoctorPerin

2 weeks ago

Freud didn’t even call it “The Ego,” he called it “Das Ich”

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A Psychiatrist @APsychiatrist2

2 weeks ago

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

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Joshua Boulter @atx_therapist

3 weeks ago

Psychoanalytic treatment is an antidote to indoctrination; it is an inquiry into how people influence each other, into the individual's history of living in other people's regimes. —Adam Phillips

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Michelle Reittinger @UpsideofBipolar

2 weeks ago

I challenge every psychiatrist or doc who swears they prioritize patients’ wellbeing—yet clings to outdated diagnosis & treatment—to ACTUALLY read and sincerely engage with the damning evidence: ->Robert Whitaker’s “Anatomy of an Epidemic” & “Mad in America”…

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Michelle Reittinger @UpsideofBipolar

2 weeks ago

Two great minds advocating for change in psychiatric treatment that will lead to better outcomes.

Dr Joanna Moncrieff @joannamoncrieff

2 weeks ago

Two great minds advocating for change in psychiatric treatment that will lead to better outcomes.

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Alyssa 🌻 @alyssaleann

2 weeks ago

A couple times a year, I make a big arrangement using only flowers and greenery grown in our yard, and it always makes me freakishly happy

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Allie Frazier ♥️ 🇺🇦 @AFrazierLife

2 weeks ago

@ElliottBlackwe3 Les Miserables by Victor Hugo “At the embrace of all desolations, faith leaps forth.”

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Michelle Reittinger @UpsideofBipolar

3 weeks ago

After a couple of decades struggling with psychiatric issues mindfulness meditation was one of the keys to my recovery. It helped me become friends with my brain again.

Dr.Siavash Vaziri MD MPH @DrSiavashVaziri

3 weeks ago

After a couple of decades struggling with psychiatric issues mindfulness meditation was one of the keys to my recovery. It helped me become friends with my brain again.

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Rani ♱ ⚢ @abjectofvenus

3 weeks ago

My Night at Maud's (1969)

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Jonathan Shedler @JonathanShedler

3 weeks ago

When I consult on cases where psychotherapy feels stuck, the problem nearly always comes down to the same thing. From the get go, therapist and patient never developed a shared understanding of the *purpose* of the therapy. Let alone clarified: 1️⃣what about the patient is…