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Daniel Smith
@morbidorigin
Psychotherapist. Books (Monkey Mind; Muses, Madmen, and Prophets). Journalism (NYer, NYT Mag, LRB, etc.). HARD FEELINGS out from Simon & Schuster in March.
Brooklyn, NY Beigetreten Mart 2020
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Guys, @morbidorigin wrote another wise, sharp, and heartfelt book. It’s called HARD FEELINGS and it’s personal—about what to do with and how to think about dark emotions (his, mine, yours)—and it’s out now.
Simon & Schuster@SimonBooks
From a psychotherapist and the New York Times bestselling author of Monkey Mind, a thoughtful, deeply personal exploration of our most difficult emotions. Hard Feelings, available 3/3/2026: bit.ly/45aOYzl
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The Atlantic has published an excerpt from my forthcoming (3/3) book HARD FEELINGS. It's about boredom, and meaning, and being a parent.
theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/…
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“That I loved my daughter was never in doubt. My problem was that I didn’t much like being a father,” @morbidorigin writes. “From a life of freedom and agency I had entered a life of white-noise machines, parenting manuals, and fatigue.” theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/…
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This is a warmly touching, brilliant example of Stephen Koch's prose; & a glimpse into a most unusual friendship.
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The Pictures via @Harpers harpers.org/archive/2018/0…
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@DrGipps @awaisaftab @ProfRobHoward Not a psychiatrist but I've done a lot of thinking about this. I think no. amazon.com/Muses-Madmen-P…
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Psychiatrists, can I ask: if someone has no delusions or thought disorder, but is hallucinating, yet has full insight into their hallucination, would you consider them psychotic? (I always assumed not, but I just read the opposite, so I want to check!) @awaisaftab @ProfRobHoward
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@JonathanShedler I say this both as a therapist and as a journalist.
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@JonathanShedler It was an important and *fair* discussion. What the research actually shows, not what it seems to show—and what it is set up to show, what it is capable, given both the parameters and the nature of the enterprise, of showing—is far too often left out of the discourse.
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This podcast ep with @JonathanShedler is more than two years old and the audio stinks but all (or a lot of) psychotherapists should listen to it. makingtherapybetter.com/the-problem-wi…
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@DavidPuder Okay that's the part I really wanted the writer to dilate on: the expansion of IFS into the "spiritual" realm. That shit is dangerous. Say what you will of CBT, but I think Beck's greatest legacy is his total and vigorous rejection of guru-ism.
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@morbidorigin Also the adaption of IFS to psychedelics… including now parts are spirits ????
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Reading a very critical article on Internal Family Systems (IFS) this am.
Made me curious to find any study on IFS with an active control. I found only one but maybe some IFS fans can point me to others. Here is the one I found:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jm…
Here is the critical article:
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For The New Yorker, I wrote about my daughter's transition at age 26--the initial surprise, and the long, edifying period of adjustment, which has transformed us both (and which isn't over yet).
newyorker.com/magazine/2025/…
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@DavidPuder Would love to talk to you about this. It's an odd piece in that it's kind of about a bunch of things at once: the IFS equivalent of wild psychoanalysis; the guru model of psychotherapy; therapy training and $; the troubled teen industry ... the clinical complexities get lost
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The article critical of IFS seems to critique a lone wolf IFS based center and one practitioner who turned kids against their parents as he uncovered sexual abuse that likely was largely from leading the witness with highly charged sexual questions.
thecut.com/article/truth-…
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@JonathanShedler It was interesting to read this sentence high up in the piece: "In IFS, a part isn’t a metaphor." I've always understood "parts" to be metaphorical. How else could one possibly think of them?
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I was going to add a comment, but I think anything I add could only detract. A must read for mental health professionals.
New York Magazine@NYMag
Internal Family Systems is a treatment offered by tens of thousands of therapists, endorsed by Gwyneth Paltrow and Elizabeth Gilbert, and widely embraced on social media. Some patients say it’s destroyed their lives. thecut.com/article/truth-…
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@schwarz_seher Fuck. I'm so sorry to hear this. This has happened to be and it SUCKS. I have no good advice at the moment, just fellow feeling. It's one of the reasons I mostly stopped doing journalism.
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I’ve been writing this EXACT ARTICLE for TWO YEARS and wake up to find larissa macfarquhar beat me to it, nightmare shit
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Just finished this essay in the New Yorker on aphantasia. Very exceptional and - I don’t feel this often about New Yorker essays - groundbreaking. Instead of the cliches of the “apple visualization test” there is a reevaluation of the spectrum of human experience in its totality.
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GO SEE Mr. Scott Marvel Cassidy's GORGEOUS ONE-MAN SHOW OF PAINTINGS, "Maria", at La Loma Gallery on Figueroa in Highland Park this weekend. HE HAS HIT THIS ONE OUT OF THE PARK! See this Instagram photo by @lalomagallery instagram.com/p/DQKZMXuEocx/…
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@morbidorigin Yes but don’t worry. It happens. There are only so many images in the world (or there used to be…)
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There's a new special out from @eddiepepitone, one of our greatest living stand-up comedians. Get it! Eddie is the best. There's no one like him. veeps.com/eddiepepitone/…
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Thank you, @MarcMaron , for these kind words. I’m sending a lifetime supply of captains table for the kitties.
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Michael Feinberg, threatened with demotion over his friendship with a former official on the FBI director’s “enemies list,” details FBI leadership’s efforts to oust him from the Bureau, and his decision to ultimately resign.
lawfaremedia.org/article/goodby…
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