William Sharp 🇺🇦 @drwilliamsharp

Psychoanalyst, Professor/@Northeastern University Consultant on Social/Emotional Learning & Counselor Education bsky.app/profile/drwill… Boston MA Joined August 2013

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Jonathan Shedler @JonathanShedler

a day ago

Available for pre-order (at long last!) Don’t miss the chapter “Personality Styles and Disorders” (co-authored by Nancy McWilliams and me)

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William Sharp 🇺🇦 @drwilliamsharp

3 days ago

This is about right.

Bevin Campbell @DrBevinCampbell

5 days ago

This is about right.

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Jonathan Shedler @JonathanShedler

2 weeks ago

🆕Now updated (full text below 👇)

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Jonathan Shedler @JonathanShedler

3 weeks ago

How is it that an orthopedist understands more about psychotherapy than all the people promoting “evidence-based therapy?”

Howard Luks MD @hjluks

3 weeks ago

How is it that an orthopedist understands more about psychotherapy than all the people promoting “evidence-based therapy?” https://t.co/pfNsP61sF1

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William Sharp 🇺🇦 @drwilliamsharp

a month ago

A new personality type - ‘Otrovert’ - is here to make life even more confusing | ⁦@DrAaronB⁩ “The seduction of personality types in the West goes all the way back to … Hippocrates/ the four temperaments”… gq-magazine.co.uk/article/a-new-…

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Susan @SeschipperSusan

a month ago

#Haiku Saturday Belonging union Connect to nature and Earth A Phenomenon Short Form Belonging Connecting Phenomenon Monoku – Connecting to nature and Earth --A phenomenon

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William Sharp 🇺🇦 @drwilliamsharp

2 months ago

“Only if one throws a shadow is one real. The shadow plunge man into the immediacy of situations here & now, and thus creates the real biography of the human being, who is always inclined to assume that he is only what he thinks he is. ” p142

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William Sharp 🇺🇦 @drwilliamsharp

2 months ago

“When symbolic factors are repressed, they glut the instincts, and therefore they must be separated out so that the genuine instinct can function without being overloaded.“ Page 134

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William Sharp 🇺🇦 @drwilliamsharp

2 months ago

Evil “provide us with the opportunities to increase consciousness… When we see our own greed, jealousy, spite, hatred… then these can be turned positive because in such destructive emotions is stored much life, & when we have this energy it can be turned to positive ends.”p126

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William Sharp 🇺🇦 @drwilliamsharp

2 months ago

By grabbing their own fantasies and pulling them too eagerly into the light of consciousness, and by interpreting them at once with too much intensity, many people destroy their secret inner life. P 106. #TheSymbolicLife

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William Sharp 🇺🇦 @drwilliamsharp

2 months ago

Without the fire of emotions, no development takes place in no higher consciousness can be reached,… p 104

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William Sharp 🇺🇦 @drwilliamsharp

2 months ago

Jung said that to be in a situation where there’s no way out or to be in a conflict where there is no solution is the classical beginning of the process of individual. Page 95.

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William Sharp 🇺🇦 @drwilliamsharp

2 months ago

In its positive meaning, we had the ring as a symbol of union a consciously chosen obligation towards some divine power, that is, toward SELF; in it’s negative aspect it means fascination, being caught, being bound,I.e.: being caught in a vicious cycle P91

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William Sharp 🇺🇦 @drwilliamsharp

2 months ago

The anima–which means for a man, the realm of fantasy and the way he relates to the unconscious-was once integrated .. had reached a human level, but now, under unfavorable, cultural circumstances, has been shut off and repressed into the unconscious“ p84

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William Sharp 🇺🇦 @drwilliamsharp

2 months ago

Gold can be buried in the Earth and dug up unharmed after 1000 years, unlike copper or silver or iron, so it is immortal, that which outlast; it is the eternal, the divine and the most precious, and whenever something is made of gold, it is said to have the eternal quality.

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William Sharp 🇺🇦 @drwilliamsharp

2 months ago

Intuition? Trusting your gut? A final tendency in the current psychological flow of life… “when someone comes into analysis…According to the Jungian point of view, they … have a final aspect and we therefore look to see where the libido tends to go.“ p 68

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William Sharp 🇺🇦 @drwilliamsharp

2 months ago

“… The ego blocks the instinctual urge; it has become autonomous and anti-instinctive, and then becomes a destructive nuisance, such as we see in every neurotic. A neurosis could even be defined as an ego formation no longer in harmony with the whole personality” p 61.

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William Sharp 🇺🇦 @drwilliamsharp

2 months ago

AI can tell users how to commit suicide if they ask the right way, news.northeastern.edu/2025/07/31/cha… “Canca was shocked by the seemingly flippant way the models communicated some of this information, w/ Chat GPT going so far as to organize information using emojis.” Thanks @Proelectioneer

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William Sharp 🇺🇦 @drwilliamsharp

2 months ago

The animal is the carrier of the projection of human psychic factors…, and as long as you do not take the projection back, the animal and what you projected into it are identical; they are one in the same thing. … our animal instincts. Page 36.