Let’s Talk Psychoanalysis

09/03/2025

09/02/2025

🧠 Coming soon – Initial Encounters: Crafting the Therapeutic Pathway
A free offering by Dr. Abbasi on the upcoming platform Let's Talk Psychoanalysis.

Gain insight into how the first moments of the therapeutic relationship help shape the entire clinical process.
🎥 More details in the video!

09/01/2025

Sneak Peek: An exclusive excerpt from our upcoming interview with Dr. Tuba Bajwa (UK) and Dr. Aisha Abbasi.

In this episode of the Let’s Talk Psychoanalysis podcast, they explore Dr. Bajwa’s paper, Mysteries of the Mind: Psychoanalysts as Detectives of the Patient’s Inner World.

Dr. Bajwa reflects on her own analytic journey, drawing parallels between psychoanalysis and detective work—where stillness of mind is key to uncovering hidden truths. She also shares how her background in anaesthesia and critical care shaped her understanding of pain—both in her patients and within herself.
Stay tuned for the full interview, coming soon with the launch of our new website Let’s Talk Psychoanalysis.

08/22/2025

Coming September 2, 2025: The LetsTalkPsychoanalysis website goes live!
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08/14/2025

📍 Tampa, Florida – 2018
At the Tampa Bay Center for Psychological Health

At one point in my professional life, I maintained a second office in Tampa — traveling there from Michigan during the winter months to see patients in person. It was a meaningful extension of my practice, filled with moments of connection, reflection, and quiet growth.

🪞It was never about "starting out" — but about deepening. Expanding my work while also learning, again and again, how to live with certain limitations. Not everything has to be overcome. Some things simply have to be lived with — thoughtfully, even playfully.

🌿 Case in point: I’ve never been able to ride a two-wheeled bike. But one day, during a trip to Tampa, I decided that didn’t mean I couldn’t be on the road in some form.
So I bought a trike.
And here I am — in this photo — fully embracing it.

🙏🏽 A warm thank you to .carillo, my office administrator in Tampa, whose calm, capable presence helped hold everything together during those years.

🖼 Pictured: A lighthearted moment from 2018 — a reminder that play and professionalism aren’t mutually exclusive.

08/13/2025

Wednesday Wisdom

📖 Excerpt from Dr. Aisha Abbasi’s paper:
“Analyzing the Children of Immigrants: The Role of Unresolved Mourning in the Shaping of Conflicts and Identity Formation”

🌍 Sometimes the deepest conflicts we carry… aren’t fully ours, but echoes of a place we left behind.

As Dr. Abbasi speaks with a patient, two Urdu poems she once wrote come to mind — composed at different points in her post-immigration life.

🕊 The first, written four years after arriving in America:

“Juday nyong ke dukhon ka shumaar karte hai.
Daya re ghairme, jashn-e-bahaar karte hai.”
“Meticulously, we count each wound inflicted by separation.
In countries not our own, we celebrate the festival of spring.”

🌸 Spring arrives — but it doesn’t belong.
Joy is there, but it hurts.
A reminder: this land is not yet home.

🌳 Years later, a second poem:

“That old tree in my mother’s courtyard must still be there.
And under its shadow, young girls still gather to laugh.”

The pain becomes softer. Grief turns to nostalgia —
a longing that no longer burns, just lingers.

🛋 Dr. Abbasi reminds us:
This isn’t just acculturation.
It’s a deep, intrapsychic reckoning with loss and belonging.
With what the old and new homelands represent inside the self.

💭 For children of immigrants, this mourning often goes unnamed — yet it shapes identity, relationships, and the quiet ache of in-betweenness.

📖 In depth work, we listen for those layered stories.
Not just what’s said — but what’s carried.

08/12/2025

🤝 TalkWell Tuesday 🤝

💬 What if exploring the mind was less like sprinting to a finish line… and more like walking a dog?

✳ In Let’s Talk, we think of psychoanalytic work as patient exploration — following curiosity, pausing at what catches our attention, and sometimes taking detours that lead to surprising insights.

🪞 When we slow down, we notice the subtle things — a pause in a sentence, a shift in tone, an image that lingers. These are the “sniff-and-stay” moments where deeper understanding takes root.

💡 Here’s where things get powerful:
It’s not just about collecting insights. It’s about the shared experience of discovering them together — side by side, in a steady rhythm of listening and reflecting.

🐕 In this kind of work, the pace is deliberate. We let curiosity lead. We revisit familiar paths with fresh eyes, knowing that what we find today might be different than what we saw before.

🌱 Over time, this patient exploration changes how we relate — to others and to ourselves.

🎁 That’s the quiet power of Let’s Talk: a reminder that the mind is worth exploring deeply, patiently, and together… even if it means taking a few detours.

🚨 Mark your calendar! 🚨
Subscriptions to LetsTalkPsychoanalysis open September 2nd
📍 Visit LetsTalkPsychoanalysis.com on Sept 2nd to join us in exploring the depths of the mind — together.

08/11/2025

🧠 Therapists, Let’s Talk.
If you're craving deeper insight, real connection, and a space to reflect on the why behind your work—this is for you.

Dr. Aisha Abbasi—psychoanalyst, psychiatrist, and educator—is launching:
🎙 Let’s Talk: Exploring the Depths of the Mind
A new platform for clinicians, students, and lifelong learners who think and feel deeply.

✨ Courses to sharpen your clinical mind
✨ Discussion groups to build meaning and community
✨ Podcasts that explore theory, practice & the emotional truths of the work we do

Whether you're just starting out or decades into practice, Let’s Talk will reconnect you with the heart of your purpose.

📬 Subscribe, follow, or join the waitlist to be part of the journey.
Let’s explore the mind—deeply, patiently, together.