Sadaf

Hello folks! @GuftaguTherapy is the Twitter handle for my mental health venture! Finally I got to starting my own in 2021. Do follow for interesting takes and perspectives on mental health themes. We have an Instagram by the same name :)

when we attend to feelings about what was missed, yearned for, covered in shame, or associated with hurt and rejection we are providing recognition of not “replacement for missed infantile experience” — Jessica Benjamin Tilting Back Toward Development

This Bill risks jeopardising access to much-needed healthcare services and excludes those it must protect: TNM Stop the arbitrary classification and invasive control of transgender persons #RejectTransBill2026

can I more deeply recognize who I am. — Malcolm Slavin On Recognizing the Psychoanalytic Perspective of the Other

“beliefs inevitably clash at moments with someone they deeply love. Mother and analyst achieve the paradoxical recognition that while I must exist (deeply, empathically) for you, it is only in being for myself that I can be for you; and equally, that only in being for you…”

“Winnicott's (1949) mother, who ‘hates her baby from the word go,’ and the analyst who, for Winnicott (1945), must express ‘the hate that co-exists with his love’ are complex beings who wrestle, over and over, with the existential implications of how their needs, agendas, and…”

Takeaways 1. Don’t sign on to “do therapy” without understanding the problem therapy is supposed to address 2. The way a referral is made is information—even if the person making the referral doesn’t know it From: Glen Gabbard, Long-Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, 3rd Edition

Mindfulness has become a modern religion for people who don’t like religion: the NHS can now offer it as an “intervention”, business sells it as productivity, and the wellness industry markets it as a moral badge; calm becomes a commodity, and complexity gets edited out. 🧵

@Mark_Solms Looking forward! Love the work you've done so far to help psychoanalysis be seen as legitimate

A review of my about-to-be-published book. I hope there is no pay wall. This book is not going to win me many friends. But it says what I truly believe needs to be said ... theguardian.com/books/2026/jan…

Came up with this as our post on "how to work with oppression in the therapy room" summarising our blog on the same topic got a lot of traction. open.substack.com/pub/guftaguthe… see you for the discussion group!

Aaj ka #SocietyPeSawaal hai Do Therapists ki diary se - @GuftaguTherapy ke Sadaf Vidha aur Aryan Somaiya ki taraf se!

From English Vinglish to Girls Will Be Girls, women’s sexuality has never looked just one way.
And maybe that’s the point. Women’s desire has many rooms.
We should learn to let women walk through all of them.

We talk about masculinity like it belongs to men. But the more we look at families, courts, pop culture, and even our own reactions, the clearer it becomes: masculinity is a shared defence system. A way all of us avoid truths that feel too dangerous to hold.

Wrote after a while about connecting dots in clinical work. What do you think?

A conversation between Chumki and Pihu in @basuanurag's film Metro...In Dino inspired this piece for @DeccanHerald, with inputs from @DrSujWell, @randomWhiz and @TanayaNarendra3. I hope it helps parents and teachers engaging with teenagers. deccanherald.com/features/gende…

Winnicott believes that insofar as the child's continuity of being is concerned, there is nothing in his experiencing that is lost. In some form we remember everything, even though, as is certainly the case, most of what we know is unconscious. — Christopher Bollas

In psychoanalysis we are seeking to understand the repertoire of risks not taken. - A. Phillips

Sometimes we hurt the people we love, not because we want to, but because we don’t realise we have.

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