Recently a colleague and I were talking about the encouragement of mental health awareness in a professional work setting. Both of us have heard several patients talk about having to take part in trainings or workshops around mental health topics, where they were often encouraged to make personal disclosures in front of their colleagues. As […]
“It is a joy to be hidden, and disaster not to be found”- DW Winnicott
Winnicott wrote this quote in his paper “Communicating and Not Communicating Leading to a Study of Certain Opposites” (1963), a wonderful paper that addresses a central dilemma inherent in all of us. He goes on to say, “each individual is an isolate, permanently non-communicating, permanently unknown, in fact unfound.” I think we can all relate […]
AI Can’t Replace Us: A psychotherapist’s personal experience into the world of AI therapy
I remember having a visceral reaction of disgust, like many other mental health therapists, when I first encountered on X that an anonymous company in NY was asking for recorded therapy sessions in return for cash payment. The therapy bubble exploded. It was a moment for myself, and a lot of other psychotherapists, where the […]
5 Must Reads On Therapy
The Examined Life: How we Lose and Find Ourselves- Stephen Grosz The Body Keeps the Score-Bessel Van de Kolk A General Theory of Love-Thomas Lewis and Fari Amini The Drama of the Gifted Child-Alice Miller The Art of Loving-Eric Fromm Source: The Primrose Practice: Therapy in Berlin
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