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  • Practice notes
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  • Candidate resources
  • How to be a therapist
  • Institutes (DRAFT)
  • Musing

    Child sexual abuse material and AI

    November 5, 2023

    I'm thinking about the relationship between AI and child sex abuse. The first in a series.

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  • Musing

    Artificial intelligence

    November 1, 2023

    I know I'm unusual among analysts, but I really like AI.

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  • Practice notes

    Freud, Solms, and the psyche

    October 20, 2023

    In which I try, differently, to summarize my takeaways from - and my struggle with - Solms.

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  • Practice notes

    Mark Solms and drive theory

    October 18, 2023

    I watched Mark Solms present on his "revision of drive theory." It was powerful, and compelling.

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  • How to be a therapist

    Finding a therapist

    October 10, 2023

    It's hard to find a therapist!

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  • Musing

    AI in psychoanalysis, or, analysts at play

    October 9, 2023

    Q: What do you get an analyst for graduation? A: A hat!

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  • How to be a therapist

    Your own treatment

    September 9, 2023

    Are you a therapist? Great! Are you in therapy? No?!? And you call yourself a therapist?!? Seriously: we all should be in treatment.

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  • How to be a therapist

    How to be a therapist: a guide for thoughtful clinicians

    September 9, 2023

    The first page of a sort of virtual "book" called "How to be a therapist - a guide for thoughtful clinicians."

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  • How to be a therapist

    Personal inventory

    September 9, 2023

    Begin by taking a good look at yourself.

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  • Practice notes

    A monthly fee (part 1)

    August 25, 2023

    I have an unusual preference, when it comes to payment by my patients: I prefer to be paid a flat fee, monthly, regardless of how many sessions take place.

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