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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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    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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    How come you don’t like “informed consent” forms?

    August 8, 2023

    I don't like informed consent forms.

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    Cancellation

    March 17, 2023

    My cancellation policy is simple: regardless of whether we meet or not, my patients pay for every scheduled session.

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    Raising fees

    May 14, 2022

    I raise fees regularly. Except when I don't.

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    Telling patients about other patients’ pasts

    January 29, 2021

    I'm asked the question, "Should I tell some of my patients that others of my patients have engaged in assault or abuse?"

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    Talking with adult patients’ relatives

    September 28, 2020

    I don't talk with adult patients' relatives, except in very rare circumstances.

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    The challenge of boundaries in virtual sessions

    May 3, 2020

    Meeting virtually is VERY different from meeting in-person.

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    Paperwork and the frame

    March 25, 2020

    I don't ask my patients to fill in forms.

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    Thoughts, early in the pandemic

    March 22, 2020

    A few reflections, two weeks into the pandemic.

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