Mike Langlois, Psychotherapy and Supervision

02/10/2024

Fall Courses and Groups start in 2 weeks!

Can psychoanalytic psychotherapy liberate the patient and if so, from what? How can we distinguish between the acts of civilizing and colonizing? When and how do we recognize violence in the treatment room, and is it an inevitable part of healing? And how can we learn to witness and harness holy rag...

20/09/2023

Dear Rejection, Thank you for visiting me this week. I’m sorry I didn’t greet you kindly when you first arrived. I had been busy making other plans, expecting great things, and then there you were. Thank you for reminding me of my family and friends, their love and presence as I became absorbed in trying to entertain you. They groaned at my self-pity, sat quietly with me as I grieved a little over a future that swung shut a little....

Dear Rejection, Thank you for visiting me this week. I’m sorry I didn’t greet you kindly when you first arrived. I had been busy making other plans, expecting great things, and then there you were.…

09/05/2023

“What is dangerous is not technology. Technology is not demonic; but its essence is mysterious… The threat to man does not come in the first instance from the potentially lethal machines and apparatus of technology. The actual threat has already afflicted man in his essence.” –Heidegger, The Question Concerning Technology “There are the hands that made us, and then there are the hands that guide the hands.”—Guardians of the Galaxy 3…...

“What is dangerous is not technology. Technology is not demonic; but its essence is mysterious… The threat to man does not come in the first instance from the potentially lethal machines and appara…

01/05/2023

Dear Colleague, Dear Person at the Book Publisher Table, To Whom It May Concern, I’m standing here at this book publishers table at a psychoanalytic conference with my post cards and I’m wondering—but I should have started differently. I steal my first book on psychoanalytic theory when I am 14. It is Karen Horney’s “The Neurotic Personality of Our Time” and I steal it from a book store in Worcester....

29/03/2022

In this podcast I discuss, gaming, flow states, and the power of gaming for mental health. If you have a minute today, please consider subscribing to one or more of my channels, in order of need: Follow Me on Twitch Follow me on TikTok Subscribe to my YouTube Channel Join My Discord Server These allow me to access creator services and amplify my reach to people.

http://gamertherapist.com/2022/03/29/collegial-conversation-with-diana-clark/

In this podcast I discuss, gaming, flow states, and the power of gaming for mental health.   If you have a minute today, please consider subscribing to one or more of my channels, in order of …

10/10/2020

For those of you who missed it, this is part one in a series I am producing with CIBER, the Center for Innovations in Behavioral Health and Education Research at Simmons University. This training discusses the interplay of race and mental health in the treatment room and in a world amplified and accelerated by technology. Dr. Johnnie Hamilton-Mason and I engage in a dialogue informed by their individual practice experiences, interpretations of theory from differing racial perspectives, and their shared interests in internalized racism and subjectivity, psychological liberation and resistance. [ 27 more words ]

http://gamertherapist.com/2020/10/09/race-and-psychotherapy-the-interior-lives-of-blacks-and-whites/

For those of you who missed it, this is part one in a series I am producing with CIBER, the Center for Innovations in Behavioral Health and Education Research at Simmons University. This training d…

25/09/2020

September Updates - https://mailchi.mp/grokcraft/coping-with-covid19-3301474

08/08/2020

New meditation is up on Insight Timer. Hope you like it!
http://insig.ht/gm_144805

This meditation combines guided imagery and mindful breathing to help with feelings of fear and sadness for people isolated by COVID19, as well as for people experiencing times of loneliness and bewilderment in their daily life.

24/04/2020

Hello all, I decided to jot down a few thoughts, which you can take or leave with a grain of salt, as someone who has been a teacher, special educator, school social worker, psychotherapist, special needs foster parent and researcher over the past quarter of a century. I have been a Gen Xer since birth. I have heard how stressed parents have been getting trying to deal with online learning and although I can’t dispense clinical advice online, I have some informed opinions. [ 1,398 more word ]
http://gamertherapist.com/2020/04/23/an-open-letter-to-parents-teachers-administrators-now-that-school-is-officially-closed/

Hello all, I decided to jot down a few thoughts, which you can take or leave with a grain of salt, as someone who has been a teacher, special educator, school social worker, psychotherapist, spec…

28/03/2020

28/03/2020

Hey & : A Message from a Therapist About "the Rona." https://youtu.be/LP4_ZaawCwc

Hey Millennials & Gen Z: Yeah I know I look goofy, but I am willing to risk the hate comments to talk to you about COVID19 aka the Rona.

19/03/2020

Parents, Educators and School Administrators are beginning to realize that this isn't a break or a blizzard. Many of them are hitting the ground running, some are laying as low as possible this week and hoping things will settle, a few are immobilized. And every teacher I know or talk to is trying to figure out a strategies. Teachers, you know it is true: You LOVE strategies. [ 565 more words ]
http://gamertherapist.com/2020/03/19/so-now-what-education-during-a-pandemic/

Parents, Educators and School Administrators are beginning to realize that this isn’t a break or a blizzard. Many of them are hitting the ground running, some are laying as low as possible th…