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BiteSize Therapy @bitesizetherapy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

“I was young”? It was last year 🤣🤣

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BiteSize Therapy @bitesizetherapy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I’m ashamed that I’m still laughing at this 🤣

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BiteSize Therapy @bitesizetherapy.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Renaming stuff? Psychology is SO ready for this. (Image by Dr. Jayce Long @jaycelong.bsky.social )

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BiteSize Therapy @bitesizetherapy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Empty Nest Day Five will require a ‘Viewer Discretion is Advised’ 🤣

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BiteSize Therapy @bitesizetherapy.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Stages of Grief (updated 2026): Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Rascality 🤣

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BiteSize Therapy @bitesizetherapy.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

I have heard Nancy McWilliams speak a few times, including earlier this month. She engaged an audience of mostly non-psychodynamic clinicians all day. How did she do this? By leading with sense and accessibility. She’s a smart clinician first. guilfordjournals.com/doi/10.1521/...

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From Object Relations to Public Relations: Making Psychodynamic Theory Accessible | The Psychoanalytic Review

This contribution advocates for the clarity and accessibility of psychoanalytic writing and public communications. Reflecting on her own experience as a clinician and a reader, the author argues that ...

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BiteSize Therapy @bitesizetherapy.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

I fear that we are two weeks away from protein infused CBT.

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BiteSize Therapy @bitesizetherapy.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

This is an AI summary of Gabbard’s “The Exit Line.” It is completely wrong and interprets the meaning of the paper backwards; Gabbard’s work states the exact opposite. AI is not an expert, it’s more like a con artist. “Artificial” Intelligence indeed.

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BiteSize Therapy @bitesizetherapy.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

For me, the crucial queries are: “What’s going on around here?” and “How did it come to happen?” - Edgar Levenson

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BiteSize Therapy @bitesizetherapy.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Your adoring audience is a separate issue 🤣

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BiteSize Therapy @bitesizetherapy.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

I believe that the true definition of a parasocial relationship is one that is totally non-reciprocal/one-sided, so by virtue of my reply, it is not 🤣 I think a related risk is people becoming too invested in online interactions. These are tools for life, not a substitute for it.

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BiteSize Therapy @bitesizetherapy.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Yes. This sits alongside the fact that these platforms can help people to connect, but are more regularly used for parasocial relationships and projection. Keeping it productive can be an uphill battle.

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BiteSize Therapy @bitesizetherapy.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Psychoanalysts can be arrogant. By interacting only with each other, they become increasingly certain of the correctness of their ideas. Consequently, each challenge from outside the discipline results in an ever-tighter “circling of the wagons” and an increase in defensive denial. - R. Bornstein

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BiteSize Therapy @bitesizetherapy.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

“When I came out to the waiting room, he [the patient] looked deeply shocked and said, “You don’t look like Glen Gabbard!” I told him I hoped he could go on with our consultation despite his disappointment.” - Glen Gabbard

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BiteSize Therapy @bitesizetherapy.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Rascal probably thinks this is too restrained and I found a live shot of his prep kitchen 🤣

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BiteSize Therapy @bitesizetherapy.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

I doubt that anyone will look back on this era of social media and say that it appealed to our better nature. For all the benefits these tools provide, we have to call them what they are: A splitting accelerant.

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BiteSize Therapy @bitesizetherapy.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

“Freud’s Ghost in the Machine” 🤣 A more serious offering: “The Digital Depths”

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BiteSize Therapy @bitesizetherapy.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

For those overwhelmed by the depth and breadth of Rascal’s account, the Maillard reaction is not a psychoanalysis thing 🤣

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BiteSize Therapy @bitesizetherapy.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Did you sear the beef beforehand? I know it says you can skip that step but…

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BiteSize Therapy @bitesizetherapy.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Although in plain English the word 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 has a connotation of adversarial belligerence, confrontation as a therapeutic technique should be carried out with courtesy and tact and, above all, with genuine curiosity. - Frank Yeomans

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BiteSize Therapy @bitesizetherapy.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

“I’ve sometimes jokingly said that your functioning as a therapist could improve 31.6% if you would just substitute one word for another…’Both, and’ is one way, or ‘also’ vs. ‘really.’” Saying or thinking, ‘What you’re really feeling is…’ implies what you’re thinking is false. - Paul Wachtel

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BiteSize Therapy @bitesizetherapy.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

2/2 “Thus, the two terms (unconscious and implicit) are roughly equivalent and are mostly differentiated by who is writing and for whom.” - Stoycheva & Weinberger, 2014

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BiteSize Therapy @bitesizetherapy.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

1/2 “Where analysts talk about unconscious processes, nonpsychoanalytic branches of psychological science employ a different label, 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑡, in the belief that this term is more value neutral, scientific, and empirical…”

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BiteSize Therapy @bitesizetherapy.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Many intuitively resonant ideas and common cultural notions come from the psychoanalytic tradition (e.g, identity crisis, inferiority complex, defense, projection) but are often not seen as psychoanalytic. There is an idea that if it makes sense, it isn’t psychoanalysis. - Nancy McWilliams

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BiteSize Therapy @bitesizetherapy.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Alpha function acts on the data from a person’s total emotional experience…it renders this emotional experience comprehensible and meaningful…By naming it alpha function, Bion hoped to be able to keep the concept open to avoid the premature imposition of meaning. - Joan & Neville Symington

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BiteSize Therapy @bitesizetherapy.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

“My clinical experience with treatments that seemed to founder…because conflict and psychic pain that should have been verbalized were instead being expressed largely through somatic discharge.” - Joyce McDougall

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BiteSize Therapy @bitesizetherapy.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Surprisingly, “One Battle After Another” is not about Therapy Twitter.

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BiteSize Therapy @bitesizetherapy.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Are you now too distinguished for “Tryst for the Mill”? 🤣

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BiteSize Therapy @bitesizetherapy.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

A patient communicates on three channels (verbal, non-verbal, reactions evoked in others). The therapist communicates this way, too. Thus, it’s vital for a therapist to believe in their approach. If the therapist speaks inauthentically, 2 out of 3 channels will be playing something different.

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BiteSize Therapy @bitesizetherapy.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

As this article wonderfully illustrates, the spurning of psychoanalytic thought has led to serious deficiencies in training programs.

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BiteSize Therapy @bitesizetherapy.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

4/ “Shouldn’t a therapist be excellent at understanding symptoms, wise about people, and extraordinary at relationship maintenance?” - Michael Karson (2018)

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BiteSize Therapy @bitesizetherapy.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

3/ “This is, of course, exactly what it means, but clinicians hear it in a pathologizing context, as if you just said that you want to be the best member of a family. When Tom Brady discusses his pursuit of excellence, no one chides him for making the other quarterbacks feel bad…”

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BiteSize Therapy @bitesizetherapy.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

2/ “The whole idea of a treatment manual or a programmed approach is that therapeutic expertise is not needed to implement it. Some colleagues treat the desire to become excellent as if you were trying to surpass both them and your patients….”

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BiteSize Therapy @bitesizetherapy.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

🧵 “In much of contemporary psychotherapy, 𝑒𝑥𝑐𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 is a dirty word. In many programs focused on so-called evidence based treatment - which has become a synonym for manualized or at least simplified treatments - excellence is relevant only to writing the manual…”

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BiteSize Therapy @bitesizetherapy.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

An AI therapist will know you about as well as Spotify Wrapped.

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BiteSize Therapy @bitesizetherapy.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

“Psychotherapy is no simple life hack. In our age of the quick fix, therapy is a long-term commitment that requires patience and nuance on both sides.” - Aaron Balick

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BiteSize Therapy @bitesizetherapy.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

The practice of psychotherapy 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑠 much easier than it is. Once trainees get in the chair, illusions of ease fall away.

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BiteSize Therapy @bitesizetherapy.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

This is a niche post for therapists 😅👏🏻

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BiteSize Therapy @bitesizetherapy.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

If we’re fighting about validation, does that mean we’re not fighting about neutrality? 🤣

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BiteSize Therapy @bitesizetherapy.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

𝐸𝑥𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑛𝑜𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝑝𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑐…my fanciful term for perhaps one of the most frequent and fundamental of all transferences: the need to share life experiences with someone else…Our experiences need to be shared, confirmed, ratified…after which we somehow feel different about them. - James S. Grotstein

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BiteSize Therapy @bitesizetherapy.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

A joke tells of two analysts who meet on the street. One says to the other, “Hello, how are you?” The other wonders darkly to himself, “I wonder what he means by that?” - Herbert Schlesinger, 𝘌𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 & 𝘉𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴

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BiteSize Therapy @bitesizetherapy.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Was buying this book an ACT of faith? 🤣

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