@Jamie_Roach Thank you Jamie! Yes I absolutely can. What’s your email?
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Wesley Mc Lachlan
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Wesley Mc Lachlan
@wesmac5
Psyd student, hospice chaplain; interested in the intersection of theology, philosophy and psychology.🇿🇦
Vancouver, WA Katılım Haziran 2009
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@wesmac5 Your talk was a highlight of the conference for me. Is it possible to get a copy of it? Great job and thank you for sharing.
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On my way back from an incredible time at CAPS! Really love that there’s so many people working on the intersection of psychoanalysis and theology!
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I’d pay good money to see a reaction of an American going to Italy and dipping pizza in ranch at a restaurant.
Dexerto@Dexerto
Hidden Valley is hiring "Ranch-bassadors" to travel Europe and test ranch on local food The brand will send two duos across multiple European countries with all expenses paid to create content
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@wesmac5 Does this help? I’m speaking more to what is privileged and focused on in the dyad. A focus on us and relationships vs a focus on you as informed by relationships (Kohut, Stolorow, Barangers).
Jayce Long@JayceLong
@neslizagli I don’t think I’m doing a good job of clarifying. By intrapsychic, you could think a focus on the patient’s inter/intrapersonal world without sharing explicit countertransference feelings. The image (Beebe at al. 2005) below captures part of the distinction I’m making.
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Rough draft thoughts. Some felt particularly difficult to place.
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@tenshi_anna Wow, that’s strong. Wicked? I mean I know that he was too ambiguous about it, but would love to know how that was baked into his philosophy? Zionism and responsibility for the other don’t seem compatible.
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@wesmac5 Levinas I think was very very wicked. I have an old polemic against him from my left-wing days defending and radicalizing Derrida’s critique of him and arguing that Zionism was baked into the foundations of Levinas’ philosophy. I may polish it off and rework it sometime.
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The only libs who are not libtards are Derrideans. Jacques Derrida developed the only viable system of minimally intelligent liberalism through a careful immanent critique of Heideggerian post-liberal/fascist philosophy. The deconstructionist standpoint is one of genuine critical comprehension of the post-liberal horizon, unlike “libtardation,” which is founded on willful incomprehension of the post-liberal other. Libs who reject deconstruction are categorically retards; Derrida showed them the only defensible grounds of their worldview and they couldn't handle it
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@AAJDeVille1 You know I already looked at your list! Ha. Thank you. I just ordered Black’s book. It looks really good.
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@wesmac5 Carlos Dominguez-Morano, *Belief After Freud*.
Stephen Parker, *Winnicott and Religion*.
D.M. Black, ed, *Psychoanalysis and Religion in the 21st Century: Competitors or Collaborators?*
Lots more at the link:
booksinpsychotherapy.blogspot.com/2023/03/psycho…
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Best books you've read on the intersection of religion/spirituality and psychoanalysis?
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@wesmac5 Man, I got to do everything for you. I’m having flashbacks of 2017. Hahaha. Jk.
Their YouTube channel has this morning’s service.
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Bethel’s response today was a billion times better than a week ago. Still a lot of work to be done and I am processing the content, but much better. May just be PR but at least the content has improved from the train wreck of last week.
It’s time to evaluate the THEOLOGY behind this stuff too. A long hard look needs to be given to “Culture of Honor” because it is not a good ecclesiology for those of us who are Charismatic to embrace. It is an abusers playground, as I’ve said many times over the years, and we now see that was, sadly, correct.
Ditch your version of the (A) and (P) and lean more into the NT. It’s a good source… I promise.
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It’s unacceptable to have another needless death in Minnesota, and it’s unacceptable to have elected officials, candidates, and administration officials continue to throw gas on this fire, or tacitly encourage assaults on law enforcement and anyone else. The situation is un-American and Secretary Noem needs to step down.
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Everyone should be way more neurotic about their sexuality actually. People aren’t nearly neurotic enough about it. There’s a way to do it and still be more or less “chill” about it too. But people have to stop acting like sexuality doesn’t functionally entail a sort of passage through hell for everyone, and it’s impossible to protect anyone from that; if you try to protect people from it completely they just end up temperamentally little kids forever, not even in the sense of childlike wonder, but in the sense of making messes they don’t know how to clean up
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@JayceLong @proud_penelope Ha! I’m curious what were your thoughts were on it?
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@wesmac5 @proud_penelope I re-read that discourse recently too. My primary feeling was, “daamn!”
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Me eating lunch while listening to Jessica Benjamin tear apart both Judith Butler’s and Avgi Saketopoulou’s misunderstandings/criticisms of her recognition theory
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Leo’s South African accent is awful. Sounded more Australian.
Cinema Tweets@CinemaTweets1
Leonardo DiCaprio’s performance in Blood Diamond is some of the best work of Leo’s career. I think he deserved this Oscar over Forest Whitaker for The Last King of Scotland, but I go back-and-forth because it’s such a close call. Definitely a great film worthy of a lot of praise.
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@drantbradley My spiritual director is a EO priest. He’s had 50 converts in the past year alone. EO is growing so much nation wide he said they need to be producing around 300 more priests a year to keep up.
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No, it’s too soon to tell. This was a survey done in 2023-2024. Survey data from 40K adults is not nearly as reliable as baptism & membership
records of churches. This data takes a while. Makes me wonder if social scientists understand how Christianity works.
Charles Fain Lehman@CharlesFLehman
Pew: no, there's no mass conversion of young people to Catholicism/Orthodoxy pewresearch.org/religion/2025/…
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I’m convinced that collaborative, empathetic, relational care is the major driving force behind good outcomes in mental health treatment. A corollary of this is that any time there is a differential between clinicians providing such care and clinicians deficient in such care — say, the former preferentially uses diagnosis/treatment A and the latter preferentially uses diagnosis/treatment B, it will look as if the good outcomes are due to the diagnosis/treatment when in fact they are largely due to the therapeutic relationship and the effect it has on the experience of treatment.
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So true AND almost no therapists think this way, for many reasons, including that they get paid more, the more therapy someone “needs.”
Jonathan Shedler@JonathanShedler
“Good psychotherapy creates the conditions for its own expiration because the patient will no longer need us. As Winnicott noted, ‘We all hope our patients will finish with us and forget us, and they will find living itself to be the therapy that makes sense.’” —Nancy McWilliams
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