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Dr. Aaron Balick 🍉
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Dr. Aaron Balick 🍉
@DrAaronB
Psychotherapist, keynote speaker, & author of The Psychodynamics of Social Networking. Find me on BlueSky: bsky.app/profile/draaro…
- Psychotherapy is full of many beautiful theories - but the best therapists know that the greatest skill lies in the personal capacity to sit with fear, grief, anxiety, terror, grace, silence, and the unknown with total presence and equanimity. After that, theory starts to count
- “The test of a psychologically mature person, and therefore spiritually mature, will be found in his or her capacity to handle what one might call the Triple A’s: anxiety, ambiguity and ambivalence… 1/5
- Even though Freud remains my main man, this quote from Jung is among the wisest in the whole of psychoanalysis: “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
- There’s an epidemic. It’s psychological, not biological, but it spreads like a virus. It appeals to what is most base within us and is contagious through vectors like this platform. It’s called “splitting” 1/8
- I love this. It’s like a bilingual version of “when life gives you lemons.”
- In honour of Freud’s birthday I am posting a photo of my mother pretending to be analysed by the painting she made of him for me. Enjoy your armchair analysis of that.
- This quote by Jung is oft repeated and rightly so because it is so true: "The greatest burden a child must bear is the unlived life of its parents." It’s really nicely explained by James Hollis here: A 🧵: 1/4
- I’m seeing a lot of “therapy is.” In my experience neither the therapist nor the patient actually knows what therapy is until they are well within it - and even then it’s up for grabs. No two therapies are the same - therapy is not one thing.
- Freud’s famous statement about the potential for psychoanalysis to “transform neurotic misery into ordinary unhappiness” is less pessimistic and more profound than it appears at first glance. 🧵 1/7
- If there were one open secret in psychotherapy I’d say it was this: People tend to be afraid of their feelings. When direct awareness of some feelings arise, people either go into defence or get anxious. Developing a tolerance for the source feeling tends to relieve tension.
- Very pleased to have now officially opened my new and quirky therapy space in Shoreditch!
- In her Diary, Anne Frank writes a great deal about her struggles with her mother - and how difficult she finds it to love her. After a year and a half in hiding with her (and six others) she comes upon this realisation: 1/8
- “Woe to you, my princess, when I come. I will kiss you quite red and feed you till you are plump. And if you are forward you shall see who is the stronger, a gentle little girl who doesn't eat enough or a big wild man who has cocaine in his body.” - Freud to his fiancée, 1884.
