Kurt
@kaydess.bsky.social
PhD. Affect, perception, neuropsychology, and all things psychodynamic. Practice and theory.
I’m curious to hear what people think/feel regarding the term psychological problem.
April 19, 2025 at 1:00 AM
I’m curious to hear what people think/feel regarding the term psychological problem.
Why therapists should have their own therapy first.
I had to learn enough about myself to get out of the way.
- Louis Cozolino
- Louis Cozolino
April 17, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Why therapists should have their own therapy first.
Ive just been reading a schema therapy text, which is great, but continues this outdated contrast with psychodynamic therapies, “…these therapies focus on drive theory and instinctual urges”. These are obviously intelligent authors. Help me understand.
April 15, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Ive just been reading a schema therapy text, which is great, but continues this outdated contrast with psychodynamic therapies, “…these therapies focus on drive theory and instinctual urges”. These are obviously intelligent authors. Help me understand.
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We have slots for 2-3 postbacs! Get in touch if you’re interested in joining the Affective Neuroscience and Pain lab & contributing to our studies of pain, emotion, and social processing in the 🧠
Recruitment of postbacs & postdocs in the NIH IRP has resumed. I have no additional info beyond what is publicly stated on the website. www.training.nih.gov/research-tra...
April 7, 2025 at 7:14 PM
We have slots for 2-3 postbacs! Get in touch if you’re interested in joining the Affective Neuroscience and Pain lab & contributing to our studies of pain, emotion, and social processing in the 🧠
We need more accounts/understandings/models of flourishing that are multidimensional. We are more than “rational”, but it’s an important part. Psychodynamic/PsyA perspectives elaborate on this and it’s great!
April 3, 2025 at 10:55 PM
We need more accounts/understandings/models of flourishing that are multidimensional. We are more than “rational”, but it’s an important part. Psychodynamic/PsyA perspectives elaborate on this and it’s great!
I’m slowly becoming to detest the word Cognition. Conceptually, we need something to capture the processes but the word has become brutalised and needs to be put to rest.
April 3, 2025 at 9:45 PM
I’m slowly becoming to detest the word Cognition. Conceptually, we need something to capture the processes but the word has become brutalised and needs to be put to rest.
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If you're a researching faces (emotive/affective signals, identity, embodiment, recognition, development, neural processing etc etc) reply here so I can add you to my sparkly new Face Researcher Starter Pack! Let's make it easier to find & connect with each other 🤩(pls share!)
go.bsky.app/ABzJ4Mg
go.bsky.app/ABzJ4Mg
April 3, 2025 at 12:39 AM
If you're a researching faces (emotive/affective signals, identity, embodiment, recognition, development, neural processing etc etc) reply here so I can add you to my sparkly new Face Researcher Starter Pack! Let's make it easier to find & connect with each other 🤩(pls share!)
go.bsky.app/ABzJ4Mg
go.bsky.app/ABzJ4Mg
Coo - one more for complex circuits! Any midbrain activation?
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Heini Saarimäki, Juha M. Lahnakoski, et al:
Cerebral topographies of perceived and felt emotions
doi.org/10.1162/imag...
Cerebral topographies of perceived and felt emotions
doi.org/10.1162/imag...
April 1, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Coo - one more for complex circuits! Any midbrain activation?
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The new object of the old feelings and expectations, the person toward whom they are now directed, must be willing, even determined, to discuss the client’s feelings and impulses with interest, objectivity, and without defensiveness.
- Michael Kahn
- Michael Kahn
“There is a need to strike a kind of balance between danger and safety…a balance between being seen by the patient as an old or a new object. If the analyst cannot be experienced as a new object, analysis never gets under way; if he cannot be experienced as an old one, it never ends.”
- J. Greenberg
- J. Greenberg
March 26, 2025 at 11:07 PM
The new object of the old feelings and expectations, the person toward whom they are now directed, must be willing, even determined, to discuss the client’s feelings and impulses with interest, objectivity, and without defensiveness.
- Michael Kahn
- Michael Kahn
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“There is a need to strike a kind of balance between danger and safety…a balance between being seen by the patient as an old or a new object. If the analyst cannot be experienced as a new object, analysis never gets under way; if he cannot be experienced as an old one, it never ends.”
- J. Greenberg
- J. Greenberg
March 4, 2025 at 4:12 PM
“There is a need to strike a kind of balance between danger and safety…a balance between being seen by the patient as an old or a new object. If the analyst cannot be experienced as a new object, analysis never gets under way; if he cannot be experienced as an old one, it never ends.”
- J. Greenberg
- J. Greenberg
I like to sneak this out at the hospital on occasion. The confused glares from fellow psychologists is both comedic and illuminating. Oddly, no one ever wants to discuss over a friendly beer!
March 18, 2025 at 1:31 AM
I like to sneak this out at the hospital on occasion. The confused glares from fellow psychologists is both comedic and illuminating. Oddly, no one ever wants to discuss over a friendly beer!
Carving out my personal philosophy on meta-psychological matters and have resonated with writings on situational realism, and its broader conceptualisation, critical realism.
www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
www.bps.org.uk
March 17, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Carving out my personal philosophy on meta-psychological matters and have resonated with writings on situational realism, and its broader conceptualisation, critical realism.
www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
I’m curious of any neuropsychological theorists/practitioners who are interestedin non-computational (i.e., non-information processing) accounts of neuropsychological functioning.
March 17, 2025 at 2:18 AM
I’m curious of any neuropsychological theorists/practitioners who are interestedin non-computational (i.e., non-information processing) accounts of neuropsychological functioning.
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Forces in the mental health field drive us to do our work more quickly so we can be ‘cost-effective.’ Arriving at formulations prematurely is reinforced by these currents in the culture as well as by our natural urge to feel a sense of mastery over the chaos of the human condition.
- Glen Gabbard
- Glen Gabbard
March 14, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Forces in the mental health field drive us to do our work more quickly so we can be ‘cost-effective.’ Arriving at formulations prematurely is reinforced by these currents in the culture as well as by our natural urge to feel a sense of mastery over the chaos of the human condition.
- Glen Gabbard
- Glen Gabbard
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Rejection of Hijab as a Psychiatric Problem in Iran
An illustration of political weaponization of healthcare
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/rejection-...
An illustration of political weaponization of healthcare
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/rejection-...
Rejection of Hijab as a Psychiatric Problem in Iran
An illustration of political weaponization of healthcare
www.psychiatrymargins.com
March 11, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Rejection of Hijab as a Psychiatric Problem in Iran
An illustration of political weaponization of healthcare
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/rejection-...
An illustration of political weaponization of healthcare
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/rejection-...
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Teaching a clinical psych bachelor intro course. Most of my students learned that schizophrenia is 'due to a dopamin problem', depression is 'because of serotonin', and that the gut microbiome 'causes' anxiety disorders.
I'm so disheartened about the state of psych textbooks.
I'm so disheartened about the state of psych textbooks.
February 20, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Teaching a clinical psych bachelor intro course. Most of my students learned that schizophrenia is 'due to a dopamin problem', depression is 'because of serotonin', and that the gut microbiome 'causes' anxiety disorders.
I'm so disheartened about the state of psych textbooks.
I'm so disheartened about the state of psych textbooks.
The privilege of seeing both Nancy McWilliams and Michael Garrett speak this week.
February 19, 2025 at 3:17 AM
The privilege of seeing both Nancy McWilliams and Michael Garrett speak this week.
A question for the affective neuroscience/general affect research crowd. How would you conceptualise (neuro and behavioural level) alexithymia in affective neuroscience terms?
February 12, 2025 at 1:55 AM
A question for the affective neuroscience/general affect research crowd. How would you conceptualise (neuro and behavioural level) alexithymia in affective neuroscience terms?
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I wish playing dead were an option when responding to reviewers.
February 3, 2025 at 8:35 PM
I wish playing dead were an option when responding to reviewers.
I’ve been reflecting on this point. Perhaps the strong physicalist does not want to cede ground to any type of dualism as it leaves an entire property/aspect of conscious life up for grabs? Property dualism is attractive for me because I don’t believe neuroscience, or related clinical fields, will
“…affective neuroscience is thoroughly monistic, with no remaining dualistic perspectives.”
I’m curious if this hard stance. One needn’t subscribe to a strong physicalism to be open to there only being physical stuff but with properties that may not be wholly reducible to that stuff. No?
I’m curious if this hard stance. One needn’t subscribe to a strong physicalism to be open to there only being physical stuff but with properties that may not be wholly reducible to that stuff. No?
January 27, 2025 at 8:26 PM
I’ve been reflecting on this point. Perhaps the strong physicalist does not want to cede ground to any type of dualism as it leaves an entire property/aspect of conscious life up for grabs? Property dualism is attractive for me because I don’t believe neuroscience, or related clinical fields, will
Just purchased a copy. Thank you for your thoughtful reflections @awaisaftab.bsky.social
Book Review: Roll Back the World by Deborah Kasdan
An unflinching memoir of the personal and familial impact of schizophrenia, failures of the healthcare system, and the tremendous difficulty of finding a life worth living under the circumstances.
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/schizophre...
An unflinching memoir of the personal and familial impact of schizophrenia, failures of the healthcare system, and the tremendous difficulty of finding a life worth living under the circumstances.
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/schizophre...
January 27, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Just purchased a copy. Thank you for your thoughtful reflections @awaisaftab.bsky.social
“…affective neuroscience is thoroughly monistic, with no remaining dualistic perspectives.”
I’m curious if this hard stance. One needn’t subscribe to a strong physicalism to be open to there only being physical stuff but with properties that may not be wholly reducible to that stuff. No?
I’m curious if this hard stance. One needn’t subscribe to a strong physicalism to be open to there only being physical stuff but with properties that may not be wholly reducible to that stuff. No?
January 26, 2025 at 11:27 PM
“…affective neuroscience is thoroughly monistic, with no remaining dualistic perspectives.”
I’m curious if this hard stance. One needn’t subscribe to a strong physicalism to be open to there only being physical stuff but with properties that may not be wholly reducible to that stuff. No?
I’m curious if this hard stance. One needn’t subscribe to a strong physicalism to be open to there only being physical stuff but with properties that may not be wholly reducible to that stuff. No?
Good mix at the moment, but slow going.
January 24, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Good mix at the moment, but slow going.
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I really feel these kinds of studies are not conceptually well founded or informative in any actionable sense (especially if they ignore the fact the relevant gene expression may have been in development).
Combined analysis of #GWAS and human brain single-cell transcriptomics data to infer the cell-types involved in the etiology of #schizophrenia and other psychiatric disorders 🧪🧠
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Mapping the cellular etiology of schizophrenia and complex brain phenotypes - Nature Neuroscience
Duncan and colleagues link specific human brain cell types to schizophrenia and other complex brain phenotypes, providing mechanistic insights and a cellular taxonomy for psychiatric disorders.
www.nature.com
January 22, 2025 at 2:08 PM
I really feel these kinds of studies are not conceptually well founded or informative in any actionable sense (especially if they ignore the fact the relevant gene expression may have been in development).