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facehead @hellofacehead.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

For the curious, the price is $11.32 (cheaper than the paperback!). I got it for $12 after tax

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facehead @hellofacehead.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Hypnosis is neat, and a great place to start remains Dave Elman’s book Hypnotherapy

The cover of Dave Elman’s book Hypnotherapy, a simple green color with his name and the title on it

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facehead @hellofacehead.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

What’s old is new again…

Daniel Casriel’s book “A Scream Away From Happiness” (1973)

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facehead @hellofacehead.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

The researchers refer to “a new induction protocol that combined meditation, visualisation and lucid dreaming techniques.” This sounds suspiciously close to hypnosis, which they could look to for helpful work already done. Research like this that ignores hypnosis needlessly starts at square one.

The cover of Randal Churchill’s book “Become the Dream: The Transforming Power of Hypnotic Dreamwork” (1997). It is a photo of a yellow butterfly or moth on a purple flower.

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facehead @hellofacehead.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

AHHHH I LOVE THESE SO MUCH MY LIFE IS MARKEDLY IMPROVED NOW @paperbackparadise.bsky.social

Bookmarks I bought from PaperbackParadise.org.

God damn I love reading books (photo of a sunset)

I’m mentally ill about reading (cartoon of a wolf or maybe a werewolf snarling)

I found this book in the trash (photo of a possum)

Go to hell if you don’t like books (nice gentle photo of flowers)

My ADHD requests that this bookmark be as bland as possible thank you (basic red background)

And a red business card adorned with skulls that says, “I have read over one hundred books and can now destroy small bugs with my mind. Do not fuck with me.”

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facehead @hellofacehead.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Alice Miller spends like a third of this book explaining Nietzsche’s whole deal. Here’s the relevant bit: “The call to war has essentially one symbolic meaning for Nietzsche: it represents nothing other than declaring battle against the deadly coercion, lies, and cowardice that constricted… (cont)

The cover of Alice Miller’s book The Untouched Key

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facehead @hellofacehead.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

There is no bottom to the absolute truth you’re saying. We all just don’t want to believe it’s true

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facehead @hellofacehead.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Alice Miller wrote a bunch of books about exactly this if you’re interested. If she couldn’t get more of us to see the truth about our parents, I’m not sure who can. Sending hugs and solidarity to you

The cover of Alice Miller’s Thou Shalt Not Be Aware

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facehead @hellofacehead.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Here’s the table of contents

Table of contents for O’Hanlon’s Taproots: Underlying Principles of Milton Erickson’s Therapy and Hypnosis (1987)

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facehead @hellofacehead.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

O’Hanlon, Taproots: Underlying Principles of Milton Erickson’s Therapy and Hypnosis (1987). A quick, fun read full of anecdotes of Erickson treating patients. I recommend this after you’ve gained some familiarity with using hypnosis, as the tools can seem confusing or unclear to the untrained.

Cover for O’Hanlon’s Taproots: Underlying Principles of Milton Erickson’s Therapy and Hypnosis (1987). A moderately dark yellow background with the white roots of a plant taking up the whole image

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facehead @hellofacehead.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Here’s the table of contents

Table of contents for Spiegel & Spiegel, Trance and Treatment: Clinical Uses of Hypnosis (2nd ed.) (2004).

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facehead @hellofacehead.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Spiegel & Spiegel, Trance and Treatment: Clinical Uses of Hypnosis (2nd ed.) (2004). Yet another example of a writing duo focused on hypnosis, this time a father-son pair of MDs. This a straightforward nuts and bolts approach to common maladies amenable to hypnotherapy. I really recommend it!

Cover of Spiegel & Spiegel, Trance and Treatment: Clinical Uses of Hypnosis (2nd ed.) (2004). It is a pleasantly blue painting of the sky, with two main clouds in the middle of the image

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facehead @hellofacehead.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Here’s the table of contents

Table of contents for The Stormy Search for the Self (1990) by Grof & Grof

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facehead @hellofacehead.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

The Stormy Search for the Self (1990), Grof & Grof. A friend going through a Master’s program recommended this after we talked about medicine-assisted therapy. She warned it might be a bit woo for me, and I’m glad I read this late in my journey instead of the start. Woo can distort good ideas!

Cover of The Stormy Search for the Self (1990) by Grof & Grof.

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facehead @hellofacehead.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Bowlby realized too late that he would have preferred to call it “care-seeking” instead of attachment, which had been misconstrued at times (p. 18). Research indicates it takes a great deal of time at daycare (70+ hours a week) to interfere with normal bonding (p. 27).

Table of contents for Duschinsky, Forslund & Granqvist, The Psychology of Attachment (2024)

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facehead @hellofacehead.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Duschinsky, Forslund & Granqvist, The Psychology of Attachment (2024) This book caught my interest because it is from this year. I was hoping to get myself caught up on a few decades of attachment theory via a short read. The book is little too heavy on research for me to recommend it widely.

Pleasant green cover of Duschinsky, Forslund & Granqvist, The Psychology of Attachment (2024)

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facehead @hellofacehead.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

I think I have to recommend the next book in this series by the same authors (Advanced Hypnotherapy, 2008/2015) over this one, as that one contains long chapters on ego-state therapy and abreactive techniques, but this one really gives you an idea of all the conditions hypnosis can help with

Table of Contents for Barabasz & Watkins, Hypnotherapeutic Techniques (2nd ed.)

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facehead @hellofacehead.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

My reading typically goes Into The Void, so starting now my plan is post a picture of the books I have finished reading and a few thoughts about them! I hope my fellow therapy-enjoyers get something out of it Up first: Barabasz & Watkins, Hypnotherapeutic Techniques (2nd ed.)

The cover of the book Barabasz & Watkins, Hypnotherapeutic Techniques (2nd ed.)

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facehead @hellofacehead.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

I was not prepared for my favorite character to be the put-upon mail robot. ymmv

A still from The Americans showing the interior of the FBI and prominently featuring the lovable fan-favorite inter-office mail robot

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facehead @hellofacehead.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

While I am more than sure you’re aware of this, the genius Alice Miller (of The Drama of the Gifted Child fame) also wrote a book about this stuff called For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child Rearing

The front cover of Alice Miller’s book For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child Rearing and the Roots of Violence

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facehead @hellofacehead.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

I’m enjoying Gen V, the spinoff to The Boys, but the Rogue character is clearly a/the bad guy, right? That clarifies why they opted to tell so much of the story in flashback, and gives a plausible reason for her boyfriend acting out at the end of the first episode. We shall see

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facehead @hellofacehead.bsky.social · 27/08/2023

A signed Tommy Wiseau shirt 😎 I told him my name and he didn’t even pretend to listen to me, love that about him

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facehead @hellofacehead.bsky.social · 26/08/2023

The film has an arch theatricality that underscores how wittily it mixes the deathly important and forceful desires of youth with the more knowing and realistic ways the middle-aged see life and the place of relationships.

Two of the three main couples in the film are all tightly but neatly arranged around a harp and a small table in a shit that reminds me the film Knives Out for some reason

Two of the male leads are in comically accentuated attire, one in his military finest, the other wearing that same man’s sleeping set, nightcap included, after his clothes were accidentally soaked.

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facehead @hellofacehead.bsky.social · 26/08/2023

Bergman Criterion set disc #1 Smiles of a Summer Night (1955). 3.5/5 A light, lusty, upstairs, downstairs romantic comedy with dark undercurrents. The son looks exactly like Bruce McCulloch (Kids in the Hall) doing a bit. The set couldn’t start chronologically, because oof the next two are rough.

Criterion cover for the film Smiles of a Summer Night featuring an image from the end of the film with two characters enjoying the sunrise

What seems to be an original English movie poster for Smiles of a Summer Night. Sells itself as “starring Sweden’s four most beautiful women” and includes a review quote that it is “bawdy-nawdy enough to be French”

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facehead @hellofacehead.bsky.social · 12/08/2023

Omg I immediately clocked where that image came from. Teenage me bought this so excited to make a game only to immediately realize I had no coherent vision or talent. Cheaper than therapy!

The cover for the game RPG Maker from which the smaller image of the primary skeet was taken

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facehead @hellofacehead.bsky.social · 01/08/2023

From that Salon piece we are all posting. Bluesky is great!

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facehead @hellofacehead.bsky.social · 26/07/2023

Blahaj and son have approved this post

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facehead @hellofacehead.bsky.social · 20/07/2023

Bluesky really coming together

Character says “time for phone.”
Phone text reads simply “fuck you”
Character responds “cool.”

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