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Psychology and Society: On Emotional Pain and Defenses | Maria Laguna

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One of the many wonderful features of our mind is its bult-in capacity to protect us from emotional pain.
We all have a series of internal mechanisms that get triggered in moments of distress: we deny, we repress, we try to undo things, etc. Join us to learn more about how our minds protect us from emotional pain and what this looks like in our daily lives.

Psychology and Society: On Emotional Pain and Defenses | Maria Laguna How does our mind protect us from emotional pain? Join our new conversation with Maria Laguna.

New York City Will Hospitalize More Mentally Ill People Involuntarily

What appears to be a well-intended measure is likely to have catastrophic results for our community.
Hospitals are already overcrowded and understaffed.
People struggling with mental illness need comprehensive services and their basic needs met. Housing, education, outpatient services, etc.

New York City Will Hospitalize More Mentally Ill People Involuntarily Mayor Eric Adams directed the police and emergency medical workers to hospitalize people who appear to be severely mentally ill, even if they pose no threat to others.

Puerto Rico: Unveiling our collective silence

https://psychoanalyticactivist.com/2022/11/29/puerto-rico-unveiling-our-collective-silence/

Puerto Rico: Unveiling our collective silence By Rossanna Echegoyén and Andrea Recarte Puerto Rico, in English, Rich Port, is valued for its culture, landscapes and people. The island was claimed by the United States at the dawn of the 19th ce…

The Patient Gloria Review. Psychotherapy as Misogyny in Ph***ic Fringe Theater

Highly recommended! A much needed critique on misogyny in the field

The Patient Gloria Review. Psychotherapy as Misogyny in Ph***ic Fringe Theater “The Patient Gloria” is inspired (if that’s the right word) by a film that some see as a breakthrough; others as a betrayal. In 1964, a recently divorced woman named Gloria Szymanski consented…

Tis’ the season to remind yourself to take ALL YOUR PTO before the end of the year (if you can’t roll it over to next year).
In 2021, Americans had 9.5 unused vacation days by the end of the year.
Rest is not a luxury. It’s a human right and a basic need. You are not “lazy” for wanting to take time off. This is the same discourse that values productivity over wellbeing.
We should be working to live, not living to work. Therapy should not aim at producing functional and productive humans, but at helping them become the most authentic and wholesome version of themselves.

So… how will you be enjoying your hard earned PTO? Drop me a comment!

35 Scripts for Trauma Survivors to Set Family Boundaries

https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/simplifying-complex-trauma/202211/35-scripts-trauma-survivors-set-family-boundaries

35 Scripts for Trauma Survivors to Set Family Boundaries A comprehensive cheat sheet.

Exciting things are happening. I invite you to stop by and stay tuned.

Some reflections borrowed from Roy Schafer.

In this Halloween, let me introduce you to some of the scariest monsters and their voices

Dear Cis Analysts — Parapraxis

https://www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/dear-cis-analysts
"The place of the T in LBGT has always been a contested one. Ours is a difference that’s different. Gay and le***an organizations abandon us when it’s expedient. Trans people have had to organize for ourselves. Trans women have had to organize for ourselves. What Julia Serano called “trans-misogyny” is a very particular flavor of weaponized panic that has the power to limit or end our lives. Particularly trans women of color, or those who have been abandoned by family and community, denied housing, trapped in the cycles of incarceration—it’s killing my sisters."

Dear Cis Analysts — Parapraxis A call for reparations McKenzie Wark

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Missing the Home You Needed to Leave

There is a name for the specific type of grief that both refugees and migrants experience. It’s called “cultural bereavement.”

Missing the Home You Needed to Leave There is a name for the specific type of grief that both refugees and migrants experience. It’s called “cultural bereavement.”

Episode 120: Foreignness, the Blues, and Psychoanalysis in Iran with Gohar Homayounpour, PsyD (Tehran)

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Episode 120: Foreignness, the Blues, and Psychoanalysis in Iran with Gohar Homayounpour, PsyD (Tehran) “Aren’t these daughters of Persia retelling that myth [Shahnameh] as we speak – they put their hair down, Rudabeh put her hair down. This time maybe from this union there will now be a baby girl that will be born. This new epic female hero will transform this land. Something has happened – i...

My sister’s death was hard enough. The silence afterwards was unbearable

My sister’s death was hard enough. The silence afterwards was unbearable Writer Lynne Reeves Griffin's sister, Cheryl, died by su***de seven years ago. When people become uncomfortable at any mention of my sister, she writes, I feel excluded from the mourning process.

Migration and Identity | Maria Laguna

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Migration and Identity | Maria Laguna Our mission is to re-imagine psychology for the 21st century through connection, exploration, and innovation. Join our community where we discuss topics like...

One Key Question to Liberate Yourself From Childhood

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One Key Question to Liberate Yourself From Childhood The most fundamental idea at the heart of modern psychotherapy is that in order to heal ourselves from our neuroses in the present, we have to understand wha...

EGPS Discussion Group - Sunday, 10/16 on Zoom - Clinical Work with Immigrants and First Gen Americans: Clinical Implications - Maria Laguna, LCSW

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"Arrogance And Confidence" Tales Of Mere Existence

A poignant and funny reflection of what gets in the way of our self-confidence, and why we sometimes engage in self-sabotaging behaviors: https://youtu.be/aYnlpaWWH4E

Tales Of Mere Existence

"Arrogance And Confidence" Tales Of Mere Existence Confidence is always a good thing... or is it?

Words of wisdom from Luismi

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Debussy - Clair de Lune

Let's create a thread of healing music. What's your favorite?

Debussy - Clair de Lune -from the suite "Bergamesque" by Claude Debussy

Mujer Saliendo del Psicoanalista
Woman leaving the Psychoanalyst’s Office

Remedios Varo (México, 1960)

What does this painting evoke in you?

Photos from Thinking Minds's post

Neurodevelopmental trauma... It's fascinating. This is a great graphic explaining why 'behavioural' techniques just won't work.

We will be exploring this in lots more detail and answering all your questions in our webinar on this very topic next week.

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How I learned to tame my hypochondria

How I learned to tame my hypochondria Recent years have seen a dramatic rise in the number of people suffering with health anxiety. Annalisa Barbieri reveals what triggered – and eventually settled – her ‘late-onset hypochondria’

Quantification of Wellness: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly | Maria Laguna

Can mental health and wellness be quantified? What is left out?

Rather than demonizing the quantitative approach and idealizing the qualitative one, the goal of this seminar is to understand their risks, benefits and limitations.

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Expert Pick of the Day! 📚

Today's paper: "The Experience of the Skin in Early Object-Relations" by Esther Bick (IJPA, 1968). 👉https://pep-web.rocks

About British psychoanalyst, Esther Bick: 👉https://psychoanalysis.org.uk/our-authors-and-theorists/esther-bick

Edna O'Shaughnessy talks about her experience of supervision with Esther Bick: 👉 https://pep-web.rocks/browse/document/IPSAVS.001A.0013A

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Are you a clinician interested in sharpening your skills when it comes to working with immigrant or first generation patients?
If so, join me for this online summer class hosted by MITPP. https://www.mitpp.org/events for more info.

What qualities does a person need to have to be a good psychoanalyst?

"One of the most important things has to be, to be somebody who is really interested in other people. In how they work, what it's like being a human being. And is really interested in other people's ways of being a human being. Not just, how well can I understand somebody, but, how interesting that they're so different from me. That kind of loving engagement with other people's differences, I think, is a terribly important quality."

- Michael Parsons.

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What a privilege and an honor to meet with colleagues and scholars from all over the world to talk about time, memory, space, literature and Psychoanalysis. ❤

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Excited to be teaching a summer course on one of my favorite topics: Working with immigrants and first generation Americans.
(August 10 and 17 - 7 to 9 pm EST).
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When clinging to old hopes gets in the way of healing and growth | Aeon Essays

"Through these experiences, Alex and I started to understand that his unyielding hope served him to avoid experiencing the overwhelming pain of disappointment and loss. He was employing what the psychoanalyst Martha Stark has called ‘relentless hope’, a defence against the unbearable pain of grief. Hope got in the way of healing and growth by impeding Alex’s movement through mourning. Trauma experts such as Judith Herman consider this a crucial stage of trauma recovery. For her, people who experience psychological trauma ‘must mourn the loss of the foundation of basic trust, the belief in a good parent. As they come to recognise that they were not responsible for their fate, they confront the existential despair that they could not face in childhood.’"

When clinging to old hopes gets in the way of healing and growth | Aeon Essays Hope is usually seen as a positive agent of change that spares us from pain. But it can also undermine healing and growth

Quantification of Wellness: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly | Stillpoint

Quantification of Wellness: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly

This event will embark on a discussion on the use of quantitative methods and measurement scales to assess human experience: questionnaires, tracking systems, mood logs, etc.

Can mental health and wellness be quantified? What is left out?

Rather than demonizing the quantitative approach and idealizing the qualitative one, the goal of this seminar is to understand their risks, benefits and limitations.

These events on Psychology and Society are a monthly feature for our community.

After we hear a short presentation on the topic, we will open the floor for the discussion.

This online event is open to everyone interested in the topic. No background knowledge in psychology is required.

Quantification of Wellness: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly | Stillpoint This event will embark on a discussion on the use of quantitative methods and measurement scales to assess human experience: questionnaires, tracking systems, mood logs, etc. Can mental health and wellness be quantified? What is left out? Rather th...

Psychology and Spirituality: Friends or Foes? | Maria Laguna

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Psychology and Spirituality: Friends or Foes? | Maria Laguna Our mission is to re-imagine psychology for the 21st century through connection, exploration, and innovation.https://stillpoint.org/Instagram: https://www.in...

A fragment of Mr. Luther King's Jr's speech during the APA's Annual Convention in Washington, D.C. 1967:

This couldn't be more relevant today:

"There are certain technical words in every academic discipline which soon become stereotypes and even clichés. Every academic discipline has its technical nomenclature. You who are in the field of psychology have given us a great word. It is the word maladjusted. This word is probably used more than any other word in psychology. It is a good word; certainly it is good that in dealing with what the word implies you are declaring that destructive maladjustment should be destroyed. You are saying that all must seek the well-adjusted life in order to avoid neurotic and schizophrenic personalities.

"...But on the other hand, I am sure that we will recognize that there are some things in our society, some things in our world, to which we should never be adjusted. There are some things concerning which we must always be maladjusted if we are to be people of good will. We must never adjust ourselves to racial discrimination and racial segregation. We must never adjust ourselves to religious bigotry. We must never adjust ourselves to economic conditions that take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few. We must never adjust ourselves to the madness of militarism, and the self-defeating effects of physical violence."

Full version at:
https://www.apa.org/monitor/features/king-challenge