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lukepando.bsky.social @lukepando.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
During Dr. Cornelius’s talk on the efficacy of different treatments, he explained that while the effect sizes of CBT, drug, and psychoanalysis are similar for short-term treatments, psychoanalysis outpaces the previous two types in long-term treatment outcomes. @drwilliamsharp.bsky.social #psyc4666
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lukepando.bsky.social @lukepando.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
In “Where is the Evidence for Evidence-Based' Therapy“, Shedler is careful to note that the term ‘statistically significant’ is more of a marketing technicality than a clinically meaningful result. It can be used to bolster an otherwise underwhelming “benefit”. @drwilliamsharp.bsky.social #psyc4666
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lukepando.bsky.social @lukepando.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
In doing so, desire can be displaced from the transference situation and guided toward articulation through the analysand’s speech. Talking helps!
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lukepando.bsky.social @lukepando.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Clinically, this suggests that the clinician must resist occupying the position of the desired object, not by rejecting the transference, but by refusing its satisfaction.
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lukepando.bsky.social @lukepando.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Rather than expressing desire proper, transference love functions to sustain the symptom, offer jouissance, and temporarily fill the lack upon which desire itself depends.
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lukepando.bsky.social @lukepando.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
From this lens, the analysand’s attempt to install the clinician as the object that would complete their desire can be understood as a misrecognition.
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lukepando.bsky.social @lukepando.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
This raises questions about how transference love is handled in practice, particularly from a Lacanian perspective. In A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis, Bruce Fink emphasizes that desire is structurally opposed to satisfaction.
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lukepando.bsky.social @lukepando.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
From a psychoanalytic perspective, however, transference love is not quite “real love,” but rather a surplus satisfaction produced by the transference itself. This risks prematurely closing off analytic work instead of allowing it to be worked through.
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lukepando.bsky.social @lukepando.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
In #Psyc4666 today, the topic of transference love came up, referring to situations in which a client develops romantic feelings toward a clinician due to the reactivation of strong affects tied to an earlier attachment figure, or “love object.”
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lukepando.bsky.social @lukepando.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
After reading “What Your Therapist Thinks of you: A Letter To The Editor”, I have to wonder if allowing access to a clinician’s private notes splits the clinician into the spoken clinician and the written clinician. Which one would a client attend primarily to? @drwilliamsharp.bsky.social
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