Op deze dag in 1872 werd Johan Huizinga geboren, een van de grootste historici die Nederland ooit heeft gehad. Hij is vermaard om zijn schitterende 'Herfsttij der Middeleeuwen'. Tevens stond hij bekend om zijn cultuurpessimisme in een groot aantal van zijn werken Favoriete werk?

need this on a t-shirt

Bijzonder dat de Gezondheidsraad een causaal verband legt, iets wat het RIVM zelfs na 11 jaar(!) onderzoek niet heeft gedaan - maar wat vervolgens wel een mediahype werd 👇🏼 www.aliettejonkers.nl/2025/02/14/m...

On the rotten core: open.substack.com/pub/tomwoold...

I think this is precisely what needs to happen.

Ah yes my iPhone went back in time 40 years and affected my brain development 15 years before I used the internet

Dat hadden ze zich natuurlijk wel kunnen beseffen. Ik wel, daarom stemde ik dus geen D66. Maar goed het is wat het is.

This, and very much this.

A classic. youtu.be/LThpPGHGaXo?...

Thinking of how emotional regulation is increasingly referred to in clinical terms, disconnected from meaning.

Oprah recently did a podcast on the topic of adult children choosing "no contact" with family members. I didn't listen to the episode, but in clips I felt that sometimes the language used focused on parents being "estranged" from children; as if the child was upsetting the family dynamic.

Some people struggle b/c they “think too much” and “cannot feel” Others struggle b/c they “feel too much” and “cannot think” Psychotherapies that see everyone needing one of these solutions, instead of understanding the contextual, dynamic person … can create harm

Not to be flip, but repeated COVID infection has neurological impacts and I wonder how much contemporary dysfunction that has worsened…

Hulde voor de Volkskrant. Broodnodige reconstructie van bizarre berichtgeving met grote gevolgen. Als je één stuk leest dit weekend, lees dan dit www.volkskrant.nl/politiek/han...

Nothing hits like an old Sara Bareilles song 👌

Trauma integration, relational trauma particularly, can be raging, hateful, and powerful in very uncomfortable ways. If a therapist needs to be seen as good and kind, they will struggle. Unfortunately, it is the clients who will pay for that. 2/

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Expressing that a job as a low-level secretary would make me want to rip out my hair, only to be met with "nobody gets their dream job first try", and not to look down on that kind of work.

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the sense in which “role self” better conveys the adaptive function and usefulness of what Winnicott called the false self while the original term far better captures the self-deception and self-betrayal involved in the various acts of being untrue to oneself

Eugenics They want eugenics They want a new race of “superior humans” which is called Nazi-ass level eugenics

“RCTs or STFU” is its own form of fundamentalist dogma in medicine that is ultimately incoherent and self-serving.

Many advocates of alternatives to established medical care are blatantly dangerous. This is a heartbreaking article of how things can go wrong. “Nobody joins a cult willingly. You think you’re joining a great movement.” www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Ahhh, my heart. youtu.be/mJccPYV7UGA?...

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This really speaks to a significant difference between my first long-term therapist, who practised CBT with a dash of ST, and my second one, whose approach was ST with a hefty dose of MBT. Night and day in terms of effectiveness.

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Even though no one will be surprised to learn Farage was stunningly racist & antisemitic as a teenager, the details of its extent & viciousness is still shocking. Truly vile examples. Which for me again raises the qn abt the British public school system

I did some (pro bono) work with therapists who had fled Ukraine at the start of the invasion. How important it was to them to hold onto a piece of jewelery or their grandfather's watch. Under proposed legislation, these would be taken from asylum seekers, stripping their identity still further.

Inderdaad, laag en niets ontziend. En bepaalde journalisten werken daar ook aan mee.

Insights occur when a person feels safe to have them. - Alan Rappoport (1997)

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"When individuals cannot plan, they cannot hope. And when they cannot hope, they cannot resist." Neue Interviewstudie zu den Auswirkungen wissenschaftlichen Prekarität. #IchBinHanna @ngawiss.bsky.social

I wrote an article about psychiatry and the humanities - more glamorously, about asylums and gothic melodrama - up now @ BMJ Medical Humanities . Check it out! #medhum #psychiatry mh.bmj.com/cgi/content/... Free link: mh.bmj.com/cgi/rapidpdf...

Het is feitelijk juist dat zeliegtdöz

“Transformational possibilities… do not arise through psychic work that seeks to preserve the self, or in the affirmation of our identity by the other. Transformative potential arises in the self’s undoing, as it shatters.” Saketopoulou, citing Leo Bersani’s “The Freudian Body”

The good news: No CBT-E. The bad news: I'm too complex a case. Behaviourism is a curse.

Ah yes, I love being drenched in sweat upon arriving at the waiting area loaded with people with the Right™ kind of ed

Intake for ED treatment tomorrow. Wish I had a pin with Peter Fonagy's face on it to help me remain grounded and curious when faced with the person doing my intake possibly suggesting I do yet another round of CBT-E.

I haven't been online much due to real-life events, and to then come back and see yet another instalment of the "xyz are actually filthy narcissists" discourse has me feeling peeved.

each and every single time a psychotherapist on social media claims that politics has absolutely no place in psychotherapy and claims this is a completely centrist and politically neutral position

‘The original police assessment, seen by MEE, records that Dutch police informed their British counterparts that "over 200" Maccabi Tel Aviv fans in Amsterdam last year were "linked to the Israel Defense Forces", Israel's army.’

Henk Kamp, die in zijn politieke loopbaan een spoor van vernieling heeft achtergelaten, mag bij Buitenhof een lans breken voor een zogenaamd ‘centrumrechts’ kabinet. Hoe is het in hemelsnaam mogelijk dat deze man nog steeds serieus wordt genomen én een podium krijgt in het maatschappelijke debat?

Justice for ditches! Researchers are seeking to raise the profile of research into canals, dikes, moats, conduits, and gutters, also known as ditches. eos.org/articles/the... 🧪

We leven echt in Bizarro World - wij, ik, hebben meebetaald aan propaganda via een publieke zender. In welk universum is het nodig om een politicus, welke dan ook, maar zéker die van een haatpartij, piano te laten spelen in een journalstiek programma? Waarom mag dit?

Thinking about a situation today in which my social anxiety prevented me from taking a more productive approach to something. It was a completely innocuous situation, but still worth reflecting on how quickly anxiety takes the reins.

Het is onverteerbaar dat mijn campagne 'De VVD moet kapot', ook nul zetels kreeg. Echt veel mensen hebben enorme schijt aan hun medemens met migratieachtergrond, vluchtverleden, mensen zonder hypotheken en tweede huizen en de uit huis gezette en dode kinderen van slachtoffers vh toeslagenschandaal.

Deze onmenselijkheid wil Jettte gewoon doorzetten, je 'progressief'. Lees over de wreedheid van Fort Europa en makkelijke termen als 'instroom beperken'. www.oneworld.nl/mensenrechte...

Ze hebben echt geen flauw idee, hè. Maar goed, daar denken ze dat ziekenfonds communisme is dus alles ter linkerzijde van de SGP is ‘liberal’ en ‘center-right’.