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Nadeem Hasan, PsyD @nadeemhasanpsyd.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Feeling deeply understood can feel like a portal into a new more genuine way of being oneself in the world. Yet, cultivating a capacity to bear being misunderstood can help create some space from the prison of personalizing the darts of everyday life.

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Nadeem Hasan, PsyD @nadeemhasanpsyd.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Increasing one’s capacity for shame can increase one’s ability to identify with those who are ridiculed over goofy mistakes and social missteps. One can realize ‘they are like me’ rather than exiling embarrassment in the other and sealing the split with laughter.

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Nadeem Hasan, PsyD @nadeemhasanpsyd.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

'Candidates who idealize a supervisor may not want to notice potential differences of opinion between themselves and their mentor, in which case they run the risk of becoming a psychoanalytic clone rather than an integrated, separate professional.

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Nadeem Hasan, PsyD @nadeemhasanpsyd.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

What's occurring in the world can and does reverberate into the psyche of the individual and what a person has experienced can influence how they construe the world. A sensitive therapist can explore these dynamics in treatment with receptivity, openness, and curiosity.

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Amina Samee @aminasamee.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

“People are oceans, and you judge them by their shores; never having glimpsed what moves in their depths” — Shams Tabrizi

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Nadeem Hasan, PsyD @nadeemhasanpsyd.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

🧵 Interpersonal Overton Windows. Many may be familiar with the idea that at any given time there are a range of policy positions that are acceptable to the general public that can shape the the limits of acceptable discourse. Yet, what are implications for 1:1 interactions? And for therapy?

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Nadeem Hasan, PsyD @nadeemhasanpsyd.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Hot take: Most therapists ought to be able to help most people without a printer let alone AI.

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Nadeem Hasan, PsyD @nadeemhasanpsyd.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

When do we get ABS for interpretations?

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Nadeem Hasan, PsyD @nadeemhasanpsyd.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Feels wrong when you catch AI in a lie. Aren’t you supposed to be all knowing? -Oedipus lives

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Alejandra Hope @alejandrahope.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Avgi Saketopoulou: "What do you do with an institution that doesn't love you back? We have so pathologized leaving and we have so exalted repair."

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Nadeem Hasan, PsyD @nadeemhasanpsyd.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

One of the funnier things about apolitical therapists is that you often actually know their political beliefs. Whether implicitly or explicitly they sometimes post about them daily.

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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 04/03/2026

Its weird how Love is considered weak and cringe nowadays. Its the most powerful collective shield, tool, and medicine we have and people are too worried about being corny to rely on it.

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Nadeem Hasan, PsyD @nadeemhasanpsyd.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

IFS exiles - I’m scared and terrified, it’s not safe to come out. Freudian exiles - Let me into the party! Oh, fine, I can’t join—wait till I show up in disguise in a dream. It’s gonna get weird, bro.

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Nadeem Hasan, PsyD @nadeemhasanpsyd.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

If you could be a therapist for any fictional TV show or film character who would it be?

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Nadeem Hasan, PsyD @nadeemhasanpsyd.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Maturity in cooking is having the least bit of restraint with garlic.

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Nadeem Hasan, PsyD @nadeemhasanpsyd.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

🧵One thing I've found interesting in psychoanalytic circles is there can be a pride in owning one's hate. It can be a badge of honor that one knows one's own mind, isn't disavowing their aggression, and isn't like those *other* therapists.

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Nadeem Hasan, PsyD @nadeemhasanpsyd.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Rousseau → Attachment-oriented therapy: You’re born good and harmed by others. Hobbes → Klein: You weren’t born so innocent—you have destructive (vs. selfish) impulses that need to be survived and integrated (vs. contained).

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Nadeem Hasan, PsyD @nadeemhasanpsyd.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Accusing others of virtue signaling can be a big fat projection. Moral outrage can be moral.

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Nadeem Hasan, PsyD @nadeemhasanpsyd.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

I eventually believed that I knew myself well enough to challenge the ghost and drive him out. But I should have known better. Self-knowledge is not the same as a cure. From Ian McEwans’ ‘What We Can Know.’

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Nadeem Hasan, PsyD @nadeemhasanpsyd.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Idealizations are built on sand. -Recurring lesson

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Oskar Burgos @soymusica.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

“It is hoped that the therapist, because of greater psychological integration resulting from his own developmental experience & analysis, is less frightened of, & less prone to run from [highly charged, painful, conflict-laden] feelings than is the patient” - Ogden

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Nadeem Hasan, PsyD @nadeemhasanpsyd.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Anyone whose fondest images of self reflect unrealistic notions of superiority, and who runs into evidence that he or she is only human, may attempt to restore self-esteem by exerting power. McWilliams

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Nadeem Hasan, PsyD @nadeemhasanpsyd.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

🧵 Drinking less in the new year. I've seen online and in my personal life that many people are setting New Year's Resolutions to drink less or quit drinking altogether. A few thoughts from a therapist's perspective:

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Nadeem Hasan, PsyD @nadeemhasanpsyd.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

A key moment in therapy for those who have experienced neglect & unmet developmental needs is when the therapist can bear and witness this pain, tolerate the grief that they went unmet, and facilitate the new experience of receiving care and updating one’s self-understanding.

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Nadeem Hasan, PsyD @nadeemhasanpsyd.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

The inner world is not the unmoved mover or uncaused cause, but part of a powerful web of reciprocal forces, as much a product of the person's way of life as the cause. Paul Wachtel, Cyclical Psychodynamics and the Contextual Self

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Nadeem Hasan, PsyD @nadeemhasanpsyd.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Sure, there's virtue signaling, but there's also vice signaling, intelligent signaling, slacker signaling, nihilist signaling, educated signaling, self-taught signaling, friendly signaling, leave-me-alone signaling, etc. The list goes on...

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Nadeem Hasan, PsyD @nadeemhasanpsyd.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Growth as a therapist requires the willingness to be uncomfortable. Studying theory you don’t quite understand, trying interventions you don’t know will work, going in directions where you don’t know where you’ll end up. Otherwise one’s clinicial vision and repertoire will remain limited.

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Awais Aftab @awaisaftab.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

The hardest, recurring psychological task of my life has been learning to accept the absurdity of existence, to see ambition and achievement for the false gods they are, and to understand, truly understand, how one can flourish in what looks, from the outside, like mediocrity.

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A. Rascal @rascality.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

suspecting at least part of the reason why humility is considered a “silent” virtue is because of its somewhat paradoxical nature in that the more we (truly) possess it, the less likely we are to know that and if / when we’re sure we have it, we almost certainly don’t

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Nadeem Hasan, PsyD @nadeemhasanpsyd.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Rupture/repair as exposure: The worst relational fears can be survivable and one doesn’t have to shrink to prevent these fears from materializing so much in the future. The ground is more solid than anticipated & there’s more room to be oneself. There’s more room for authenticity & intimacy.

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BiteSize Therapy @bitesizetherapy.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Truly humble people, I suspect, never describe themselves as such; rather, they worry about their own pride, arrogance, and hubris. - Donna Orange

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Nadeem Hasan, PsyD @nadeemhasanpsyd.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Anxiety can be secondary to guilt. It's hard to feel settled if there's a fear that one has always done something wrong. Understanding this inclination can help differentiate one's moral compass from a hypervigilance organized around a vague sense of badness.

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BiteSize Therapy @bitesizetherapy.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

🧵 1/3 Some of my favorite quotes speak to the paradoxes inherent in psychotherapy: If the analyst cannot be experienced as a new object, analysis never gets under way; if he cannot be experienced as an old one, it never ends. - Jay Greenberg

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Oskar Burgos @soymusica.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

I think these dynamics become more deeply problematic with marginalized patients. The powerful therapist, perched high atop their place of privilege and knowing, bestows wisdom upon the simple fool unable to educated themself. As Gherovici often repeats, even the poor can afford an unconscious.

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Nadeem Hasan, PsyD @nadeemhasanpsyd.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Healthy groups don’t demand conformity to belong.

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Nadeem Hasan, PsyD @nadeemhasanpsyd.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

‘Every analytic pair is engaged from the outset in the task of creating a way of talking together that is adequate to give expression both to the patient's fear of the truth and to the patient's need to know the truth of his or her experience.’

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Nadeem Hasan, PsyD @nadeemhasanpsyd.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

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Chiara S. @psychiara.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

“A rigid allegiance to one or the other type of analytic thinking can narrow the way one listens to the patient. Worse, it can lead to a situation where the analyst does not listen at all because his theory offers him a prepackaged and formulaic understanding.” - Akhtar, S. (2012).

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Nadeem Hasan, PsyD @nadeemhasanpsyd.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

The foolish reject what they see, not what they think. The wise reject what they think, not what they see. Huang Po

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A. Rascal @rascality.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

#LRP it would be unfortunate indeed for patients if health care providers were unable to conceptualize any role for the current political climate in the etiology of whatever they were treating because of the privilege afforded them by their race, gender identity, sexuality, and/or citizenship

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Nadeem Hasan, PsyD @nadeemhasanpsyd.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

🧵Our clients can often tell how comfortable we are in feeling, receiving, and discussing different topics. Whether they sense their grief might be met with empathy & understanding.

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A. Rascal @rascality.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

the sense in which relational trauma can be significantly remitted by a number of modalities but can only be cured by relationship

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BiteSize Therapy @bitesizetherapy.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Contemporary psychoanalysis can be summed up in a single sentence: We treat ourselves as we were treated, and the only way to really learn to treat ourselves differently is to be treated differently. There’s nothing magical or unscientific about this. - Michael Karson

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Aaron Balick 🍉 @aaronbalick.com · 03/08/2025

“In this world … sin that pays its way can travel freely and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.” - Herman Melville

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BiteSize Therapy @bitesizetherapy.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Harry Stack Sullivan is purported to have said, “God keep me from a clever psychoanalyst!” Truly, humility is the beginning of wisdom. - Edgar Levenson

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Nadeem Hasan, PsyD @nadeemhasanpsyd.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Most gossip is envy in disguise. Matt Haig

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Nadeem Hasan, PsyD @nadeemhasanpsyd.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Visionaries see beyond the ideologies of our time.

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