Reposted by Oskar BurgosMark Chappelle @markchappelle.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Another one I wrote! 🍦 album.ink/MRipertonPA 094
Reposted by Oskar BurgosSab Cat Wobbly @embeegee.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Nothing will really change until Fox News goes off air 581100991728
Oskar Burgos @soymusica.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Some graffiti I came upon this morning. Beautiful. An expression of the annihilate pain of heartbreak, and the bravery required to love and love deeply. 040
Reposted by Oskar BurgosRobin 🦋 @robinh2.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Seems like a good time to remind people the USWNT has won 4 World Cups! ⚽️ 364159692814
Oskar Burgos @soymusica.bsky.social · 05/07/2026“Closely linked with a psychiatric model of distress, psychology has developed worldwide as a psychotherapeutic tool to adapt people to reality instead of enabling them to change it.” Parker and Pavón-Cuéllar, “Psychoanalysis and Revolution.” 152
Reposted by Oskar BurgosAaron Balick 🍉 @aaronbalick.com · 08/06/2026In 1941 Hervey Cleckley described patients who were charming, fluent, and convincing - with no emotional reality behind the performance. He called it semantic aphasia. I call it emotional aphasia. You might call it psychopathy It's also the best description of what large language models do. 1/4 143
Reposted by Oskar BurgosKevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 09/05/2026Hey psychologists, when you're explaining some psychological phenomenon that's perfectly well captured in psychological terms, maybe you don't need to refer to some shitty neuroimaging study with ten people to make it seem more "sciencey"... 1725643
Reposted by Oskar BurgosTad DeLay @taddelay.bsky.social · 03/04/2026I’ll keep saying it: a thousand years ago, early universities formed where students organized to read books, talk about the ideas, and study with expert scholars. No pedagogical innovation since outweighs the significance of that model. The most important ed technology remains boring, old books! 1377
Oskar Burgos @soymusica.bsky.social · 12/03/2026“Interpretation is not a statement designed to provide verbal symbolization for repressed ucs conflict in an effort to make the ucs cs. Rather, it’s a way of telling the pt a portion of what the analyst is thinking in a form that the pt may be able to use in thinking his own thoughts” Ogden 071
Reposted by Oskar BurgosMark Chappelle @markchappelle.bsky.social · 02/03/2026My big sister Raquelle just passed away on Wednesday. Losing her ability to walk didn't stop us getting wheelchair accessible seats for Janet Jackson's 2023 tour. This is us grooving to "Together Again." I'm glad I captured the moment. She was my ryde-or-die. I miss her so bad right now. 18341
Oskar Burgos @soymusica.bsky.social · 01/02/2026Google Docs keeps autocorrecting "decolonialism" to "colonialism" and at first I was angry, then bothered. Now I'm paranoid. 020
Oskar Burgos @soymusica.bsky.social · 26/01/2026“If you are applying psychoanalytic treatment to children you should meet Melanie Klein. She is saying some things that may or may not be true, & you must find out for yourself for you will not get what Melanie Klein teaches in my analysis with you” - James Strachey to his analyst d Donald Winnicott 130
Oskar Burgos @soymusica.bsky.social · 18/01/2026“When analyst and analysand are able to think and speak for themselves, they do not use ‘borrowed language,’ e.g., jargon, cliche and technical terms. Their language tends to be alive, their metaphors freshly minted and unassuming. Their use of language serves to communicate, not obfuscate, to 130
Oskar Burgos @soymusica.bsky.social · 14/01/2026“I’m discussing the history of the psychoanalytic movement, Freud stated that in his view a therapy is psychoanalytic if it takes as its starting point an understanding of transference and resistance” THO Yet many wanna claim it’s the couch or number of sessions. 030
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 062
Reposted by Oskar BurgosMark Chappelle @markchappelle.bsky.social · 08/01/2026Advocates want legal action after man shot and killed by off-duty ICE agent in Northridge abc7.com/post/keith-p...abc7.comAdvocates want legal action after man shot and killed by off-duty ICE agent in NorthridgeAdvocates argue that the off-duty ICE agent wasn't trained for the situation and should have called police and waited for them to arrive. 14226
Oskar Burgos @soymusica.bsky.social · 08/01/2026An essay on Venezuela, from Venezuelan psychoanalyst Caros Padrón. www.cccacommunity.com/venezuela-pr...cccacommunity.comVenezuela: Private Wounds, Loud Audiences — CCCA 010
Oskar Burgos @soymusica.bsky.social · 05/01/2026I discovered ChatGPT had a voice function. Cycling through the voices, I noticed they were all white. I mentioned this to ChatGPT. It denied it. I repeated my concern, & it said it was going for a neutral voice. Right. Because whiteness is standardized, normalized, & rendered neutral or “given.” 051
Reposted by Oskar BurgosNadeem 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: 181
Oskar Burgos @soymusica.bsky.social · 03/01/2026“As of this morning…” How many “constitutional crises” have already been identified. We have not been governed by the laws of the constitution this entire term. Cmon now. 010
Oskar Burgos @soymusica.bsky.social · 01/01/2026And it's not because I'm lonely, and it's not because it's New Years Eve. I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of the life to start as soon as possible. 020
Oskar Burgos @soymusica.bsky.social · 18/12/2025An upcoming course: tpi-berkeley.org/calendar#!ev... 040
Oskar Burgos @soymusica.bsky.social · 18/12/2025There is truly nothing like receiving great consultation on a case. Especially when that case is one that is deep in uncontained projections, countertransference, and enactments. It is as if you are trapped/bound/imprisoned and the consultant frees you. It is a feeling of being one’s self again. 120
Oskar Burgos @soymusica.bsky.social · 06/12/2025NPSI posted videos of the plenaries from the 2025 EBOR conference. The theme was music & psychoanalysis, featuring plenaries from Adam Blum, Peter Goldberg, and Michael Levin, (authors of "Here I'm Alive") with a third plenary with Alice Huang and Adam Rodriguez. npsi.us.com/page-1075362npsi.us.comNPSI - EBOR 2025 Recordings 010
Oskar Burgos @soymusica.bsky.social · 03/12/20253 excellent books which have been on my mind: Isabel Wilkerson, “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents” Leah Gordon, “From Power to Prejudice: The Rise of Racial Individualism in Midcentury America” Michael Rothberg, “The Implicated Subject: Beyond Victims and Perpetrators” 100
Oskar Burgos @soymusica.bsky.social · 25/11/2025Lew Aron discusses the roles of mutuality and symmetry in therapy. I believe that these factors are not discussed nearly enough in therapy, and that they play especially important roles in therapy featuring cross-cultural dyads. Forgive me a long quote from Aron: "I prefer to define ... 130
Oskar Burgos @soymusica.bsky.social · 20/11/2025It would probably be faster to name which I have not seen live. 010
Oskar Burgos @soymusica.bsky.social · 04/11/2025You find it's October And she's gone And she's gone Summer's gone You've been fooled by April And he's gone And he's gone Winter's gone 021
Oskar Burgos @soymusica.bsky.social · 04/11/2025I do not love the word healing regarding psychology. We are complex, overdetermined creatures whose pain & suffering shape us. I would undo many if I could, but I do not heal from them as much as I attempt to integrate my hurt in ways that provide enrichment to my life. 020
Oskar Burgos @soymusica.bsky.social · 04/11/2025I have things in my life which are rewarding and enriching, but all my experiences provide meaning. The painful ones, although unpleasant, dialectically inform the joyful moments, all providing meaning and a sort of purpose. 050
Oskar Burgos @soymusica.bsky.social · 04/11/2025Overcoming the limitations of the zip code I was born in, and accomplishing the things my parents made tremendous sacrifices to provide. And trying my best to be compassionate along the way. 020
Oskar Burgos @soymusica.bsky.social · 04/11/2025More than what serves me. I care so much that it forces me to be in service to others as a clinician, teacher, partner, father, and son. It propels me to more rigorous study and introspection, and helps drive a desire to be exceptional. It can also be overly critical and deferential. 020
Oskar Burgos @soymusica.bsky.social · 04/11/2025One thing my decades of work in clinical psychology has shown me is that we all hide parts of ourselves, from others, and from ourselves as well. 030
Oskar Burgos @soymusica.bsky.social · 04/11/2025Sincerity, companionship, openness, receptivity, trust. 020
Oskar Burgos @soymusica.bsky.social · 04/11/2025My experience in therapy has been more ontological than epistemological. I have come more fully into myself partially through the process of therapy. 020
Oskar Burgos @soymusica.bsky.social · 04/11/2025I am a clinical psychologist. My own therapy is critical to my work. 020
Oskar Burgos @soymusica.bsky.social · 04/11/2025I am always me although it is a struggle, I try and appreciate that even brief dissociative moments are an aspect of my self, that I have no monita subjectivity but contain multitudes which are constantly shifting, forming, reforming, deforming, and moving with fluidity and intersectionality. 020
Oskar Burgos @soymusica.bsky.social · 04/11/2025Today. It wasn’t sadness per se, but more of a malaise that momentarily passed. 010
Oskar Burgos @soymusica.bsky.social · 04/11/2025The thing that causes emotionally impulsive experience of anger, frustration, or upset the most significantly is anyone disrespecting my son. 010
Oskar Burgos @soymusica.bsky.social · 04/11/2025Some of the things that contribute to our overall psychological wellbeing which are ignored are sleep and diet. Our violently neoliberal and caste social culture in the US are major contributors, and also don’t help sleep or diet. 010
Oskar Burgos @soymusica.bsky.social · 04/11/2025My most acute moments of emotional distress and dysregulation were in my early 20s and following my divorce and separation. 010
Oskar Burgos @soymusica.bsky.social · 04/11/2025Improved? I go back to the idea of not knowing what mental health means. The things that enrich my life and provide me with meaning are my son, friends, partner, parents, work, music, reading and exercise. 010
Oskar Burgos @soymusica.bsky.social · 04/11/2025I don’t like the phrase “mental health.” What’s my overall mood? Do I feel mentally stable? Am I clinically depressed or psychotic? What does it mean? I would say that my life is overall good with tolerable challenges and inexperience a normal, regulated, wide range of emotional experiences. 020
Reposted by Oskar BurgosMark Chappelle @markchappelle.bsky.social · 01/11/2025This is one of the pieces I'm most proud of writing. Joni Mitchell even included it in her website's media archive. 😉 164
