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Psychodynamic therapy

The tradition descended from psychoanalysis: open-ended sessions working on self-knowledge and the therapy relationship, rather than a manual.

FilterEveryone, all time10 from 8 people
Group All Scientists 2Economists & investors 1Writers & journalists 1
Who Everyone GSGuy Spier 2 JSJonathan Shedler 2 HNHaley Nahman 1 JMJulie Menanno 1 MPMaria Popova 1 SCSasha Chapin 1 SFSigmund Freud 1 VFViktor Frankl 1
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  1. MP

    Maria Popova quoted

    Writer and founder of The Marginalian

    Our readingBeneath the shifting multiplicity of selves lies a constant, often called the soul, that can be uncovered only at great cost to the ego.

    Their wordsThere is but a single salve for this disorientation - to uncover, often at a staggering cost to the ego, the constant beneath this flickering constellation, a constant some may call soul.

    ↗Hermann Hesse on Discovering the Soul Beneath the Self and the Key to Finding Peacethemarginalian.org 2nd of 2 in this piece

  2. 3 weeks earlier
  3. HN

    Haley Nahman quoted

    Writer living in Brooklyn and former Man Repeller features director

    Our readingInvoluntary patterns reveal something true about a person, and even their deliberate actions are a form of unintentional self-expression.

    Their wordsthere exists a wisdom in the involuntary, and that our attempts to shape reality, however intentional, are themselves a form of unintentional expression.

    ↗#281: You, with a layer of paranoia shaved offhaleynahman.substack.com 2nd of 2 in this piece

  4. 3 months earlier
  5. JM

    Julie Menanno quoted

    Marriage and family therapist working from attachment…

    Our readingAvoiding conflict does not actually resolve it, so suppressed feelings build up until they surface all at once.

    Their wordsBut avoidance does not actually resolve anything, so feelings build underneath the surface.

    ↗Confused About Your Attachment Style? Keep the 4 C’s in Mindjuliemenanno.substack.com 2nd of 2 in this piece

  7. SC

    Sasha Chapin quoted

    Writer and author of All the Wrong Moves

    Our readingPeople freeze into relationship roles for predictability, but ongoing internal change eventually makes those roles confining.

    Their wordsWe freeze into roles because we need some predictability, but we're also changing internally all the time, so our roles eventually become confining.

    ↗Without hope of resolutionsashachapin.substack.com 3rd of 4 in this piece

  8. 9 months earlier
  9. GS

    Guy Spier quoted

    Zurich-based value investor who ran the Aquamarine Fund…

    Our readingEveryone is capable of great evil, and consciously recognizing that capacity in oneself is protective rather than harmful.

    Their wordsWe are all - each and every one of us - capable of great evil, and we are far better of is we recognize it.

    ↗Thoughts on the Conviction of Donna Adelsonguyspier.com 1st of 3 in this piece

  11. GS

    Guy Spier quoted

    Our readingPeople who believe themselves incapable of harm are more dangerous than those who recognize and fear their own capacity for it.

    Their wordsPeople who insist they're harmless aren't safe; they're naive. People who know exactly how dangerous they could become-and fear it-are the ones who deliberately yoke that force to good aims.

    ↗Thoughts on the Conviction of Donna Adelsonguyspier.com 2nd of 3 in this piece

  12. 12 years earlier
  13. JS

    Jonathan Shedler quoted

    Clinical psychologist and clinical professor of psychiatry at UCSF

    Our reading"Evidence-based therapy" is a branding term rather than a scientific one, and in practice it is a code word for "not psychodynamic".

    Psychotherapy

    Their wordsThe term "evidence-based therapy" is also, de facto, a code word for "not psychodynamic."

    ↗Evidence-Based Therapy: Science or Marketing?psychologytoday.com

  15. JS

    Jonathan Shedler quoted

    Our readingNo research ever showed manualized CBT to be more effective than psychodynamic therapy; it was only studied more often.

    PsychotherapyCBT

    Their wordsNo research ever suggested that manualized CBT was more effective than psychodynamic therapy. It was just more often researched. There is a world of difference between saying a treatment is less often researched and saying it has been scientifically discredited.

    ↗Evidence-Based Therapy: Science or Marketing?psychologytoday.com

  17. VF

    Viktor Frankl quoted

    Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist (1905 to 1997)…

    Our readingA person strives for value and meaning, not for pleasure

    Their wordsThus, contrary to the psychoanalytic view, the person, as understood by the existential analysis I have attempted to outline, is not drive-determined but meaning-oriented; from the point of view of existential analysis, the person does not strive for pleasure but for value.

    ↗Ten Theses about the Person (Salzburg lecture of 1950, as later published; tr. Franz Vesely and David Nolland)viktorfrankl.org 5th of 8 in this piece

  19. SF

    Sigmund Freud quoted

    Founder of psychoanalysis (1856 to 1939)

    Our readingEach renunciation of instinct feeds conscience, so conscience may paradoxically be called the result of renunciation, which then demands more

    Their wordsEvery renunciation then becomes a dynamic fount of conscience; every fresh abandonment of gratification increases its severity and intolerance; and if we could only bring it better into harmony with what we already know about the development of conscience, we should be tempted to make the following paradoxical statement: Conscience is the result of instinctual renunciation, or: Renunciation (externally imposed) gives rise to conscience, which then demands further renunciations.

    ↗Civilization and Its Discontents (tr. Joan Riviere, 1930)gutenberg.org All 20 from this book