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  • Candidate resources

    More on the training landscape in New York

    June 25, 2025

    I'm continuing to play with building a directory of institutes, and I'm continuing to show my "work." This is more about AI than it is about institutes....

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  • How to be a therapist - Practice notes

    Marketing and advertising: a practical approach to getting referrals

    June 20, 2025

    Most therapists approach referrals with mystical thinking, hoping clinical excellence somehow generates business. I've learned to think systematically about the practical mechanisms: throw lots of spaghetti at the wall, focus on wholesale rather than retail channels, and use authentic self-representation as both attraction and filter.

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    Networking: how to stop making it weird

    June 20, 2025

    You're already doing lots of networking, but probably don't even notice it.

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    Psychoanalytic training in New York – an opaque landscape

    March 21, 2025

    An opaque landscape I’ve written before about the maddeningly opaque landscape of psychoanalytic training institutes in New York. Even those of us who are psychoanalysts, who’ve navigated that opaque landscape, who’ve selected an institute, trained, and become a member of an analytic institute or society tend not to know much…

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    Fun with AI

    March 13, 2025

    Using AI to improve my time-keeping experience, or, an argument against those who say AI has no place to play in psychoanalysis.

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  • Musing

    Time

    October 18, 2024

    Watching the clock

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    Candidate resources - Musing

    Process recordings

    September 3, 2024

    What are process recordings, really? What are they good for? (How) do we even think about them?

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    How to be a therapist - Practice notes

    Handling referrals when they come

    September 2, 2024

    When I get a referral, I handle it quickly. I almost NEVER make anyone wait more than 24 hours. Usually, I get back much more quickly than that.

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    How to be a therapist - Practice notes

    Making referrals, getting referrals

    September 2, 2024

    Making referrals is the best way to get referrals.

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  • An image of a ghost and a typewriter
    Musing

    Am I a ghostwriter?

    July 21, 2024

    I think of myself as less of a healthcare professional and more of a literary consultant.

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