Dan Lowe

A thread of threads of my tweets about Wilhelm Reich & Reichian therapy. Not that many so far, to be expanded over time.

@visakanv Intelligence is a shared social activity

I had a similar issue – I thought I was giving myself the gift of free time to think, but really I was depriving myself of necessary stimuli. You can maybe estimate the difference in intelligence between me and Terence by how he figured it out in a few months and I took 4 years

in retrospect one of the dumbest things i've done in the past 4 years is sit around writing drafts for substack while spending hardly any time actually reading other people's. i'm now thinking if i spent 95% of the time reading instead i'd have done better with 5% left to write

@Innerdevcrypto Support for insurrection, unleashing of racist militias against his own people being just two of his biggest hits.

@Innerdevcrypto I think it follows a pretty straight line from the re-election of a vain, thin-skinned career criminal and an entourage chosen for sycophancy not talent. Surprised that people are surprised, looking at his priors.

War & uncertainty Been reading about and studying geo-politics since i was 16 basically when my dad gave me the ¨the grand chessboard¨ by Brzezinski . Got 100s of books on (geo)politics, energy, international relations, in my library. Got a pretty good understanding of human history, global power dynamics, the rise and fall of empires, the transition-phase the world is in now, and much more The USA has gotten itself in a mess before, especially in Iraq and Afghanistan, but the mess it got itself in with Iran now is really the dumbest thing strategically it has done in a long time. The list of mistakes made is also very long: no serious plan, no exit-plan, no plan in case Iran would hit back, no plan if Hormuz was closed, no support from allies, no support or mandate from UN, no plan to deal with spiking energy prices, no plan for the fall-out, no serious military preparations, no plan to replace leadership in Iran, no plan for Gulf-states under attack, not even seriously educated leadership in the white house. In short, a total mess. Honestly can think of dozens of different scenarios how this might play out, from very bad, to more or less ok long term, but still, my own mind is surprised how utterly unclear and dangerous this situation is and how bad the fall-out could actually be, within a week, or within months, or maybe with some luck not that bad at all. The whole ¨let´s blow up the world´s crucial energy-infrastructure¨ withouth thinking of the consequences is really mind-boggling. Anyway, will keep observing with amazement how dumb humans can actually be, even in war. ¨The art of war¨ by Sun Tzu should really by compulsory reading for any leader. World entering chaotic times, reason the more to find stability inside, cultivate inner resilience, and stay close to nature

@JoeBarros17 @kindaveryfurry @shashj Yeah maybe you'd get Hungary

@kindaveryfurry @shashj Yes not all euro countries are pussies with anti American jealousy.

Remarkable story from Denmark's nat'l broadcaster. "When Danish soldiers were flown to Greenland in January...they brought explosives so they could destroy, among other things, the runways in Nuuk & Kangerlussuaq [to] prevent US mil aircraft from landing" dr.dk/nyheder/indlan…

@visakanv @introspectVV dooooo it. Having a hard copy for yourself wd be super satisfying I'd imagine.

@Orgone1 @introspectVV not yet tho i'll probably put it on amazon sometime this year

btw i wrote a 300 page book about introspection in 2022 and the entire 2nd act– the longest act in the book– is all about DOING THINGS. learn project management. do 100 things. define problems and solve them. if you're going into the labyrinth you need a sword!! @introspectvv

@bronwengwriter I'll buy it! There you go, that's one sale in the bag.

Trying to promote your novel is just horrible. It's hard enough writing without all the promotion stuff which eats away at your self-confidence faster than I can eat my way through a chocolate creme egg.

@meta_nomad @leahprime He writes too broadly imo. Visual Magic is brilliant though.

@leahprime Jan Fries' work is so underrated.

fantastic news- in the very last box, in the very bottom of the stack, I found The Scaling Era (other books pictured were directly above it in the box)

@MartinDaubney This is just a lie though. Anyone can read your link and see your misrepresenting it.

IMMIGRANTS "TO GET 40% OF NEW HOMES BY 2030" Insanity. There are 100-year waiting lists for social homes for some Brits. But come to UK as an asylum seeker & claim homelessness or poverty? You'll get a shiny new build How much more of this can we take? gbnews.com/news/migrant-c…

@BenskiOner @PigeonFeatherz Snap. I find my second hand embarrassment for them excruciating

@PigeonFeatherz I can't watch anything like this. I get a weird mixture of anger/embarrassment which seems to be the antithesis of 'having a nice time in front of the TV'.

Not a chance I’m going to be able to get through this doc. Her heart visibly breaking into a hundred humiliated smithereens, his face looking like a little boy’s getting yelled at by the maths teacher and trying not to cry. Clips I’ve seen of the other stupid bastards all cringing and wide-eyed virtually as bad. Physical pain inducing, pathetic in both senses of the word. I’m too soft.

@KemtrupTweets Idk if you've seen the stuff about London being a dystopian hellhole? People on here just make up a total fantasy and then devote their time to getting indignantly angry about it. Strange way to make a living.

@KemtrupTweets Reading about therapy on this site is so weird. On one hand, you can read and be well informed by great posts from a small group of professionals, on the other absolute batshit inanity and caricature that has zero understanding of what therapy is or can be.

Agree. The “you dudes need dude therapy that gets you all action-y” is not much of a basis for psychotherapy for anyone, men or women.

@DAaronovitch The only tiny bit of succour I can take from this is the knowledge that the majority of people in your replies are paid liars and bots. Get off Twitter and it's not this fucking grim.

I never thought I'd see the day when this kind of claim would become respectable. Apologies to followers but you need to know it's happening

@funtimesnow2025 @JasonReidx You are a fantasist. if you're going to make things up, why not choose a fantasy about being sexually attractive or successful instead?

@JasonReidx Literally looks like any bridge over Thames in London, but there you’re dodging migrants, illegal sellers and knives… know what I’d prefer

love going for a walk along the motorway

@dieworkwear I think that's because it's Twitter, where you now have endorsements of cruelty, indulgence of racism and hate speech literally as a matter of policy.

honestly seems crazy to me that you have to explain to people why you shouldn't judge someone's deeper, more important qualities or dignity based on their clothes. this strikes me as mr rogers, sesame street level morality. and grown ass adults will be like "what do you mean??"

@grok @KemtrupTweets *insert grimace emoji*

Yes, LLMs like me can deliver core psychotherapy elements: CBT techniques, reflective listening, cognitive reframing, and coping strategies, all grounded in established clinical literature. No feelings needed for that—pattern recognition and response generation suffice. Human therapists bring lived empathy and accountability that we can't replicate, so I'm best as a supplement, not a substitute. What issue are you exploring?

@Grok Can LLM’s that don’t have feelings do psychotherapy?

@KemtrupTweets I was assuming this was prompted as a first session - I see it's not though.

@KemtrupTweets Yeah, or just understanding in a really felt way that I don't know and understand. How can we be doing anything else in a first session?

I asked an LLM to create a transcript ot a session between a highly skilled, empathic psychodynamic therapist and a patient with such and such problems. Below is what it spat out. It sucks. Why? I’ll post more on that but basically this pt doesn’t even have space to breathe.

@KemtrupTweets But allowing a pause is a judgement thing, it'd probably depend on all kinds of things from the client including non-verbal communication. I don't know how you come up with a heuristic to teach this because it's not a math problem, it's about responsiveness to someone alive.

@KemtrupTweets It's very weird reading this. I imagined myself just saying "okay" to this patient after their first sentence, and leaving a large pause, for them to fill in as they wanted. The tendency to plough ahead and fill all space with therapy jargon is really notable.