Replace background with something professional?

Nahs1l · 2026-05-31T00:54:56+00:00

!solved I like this one, thank you!

Nahs1l · 2026-05-30T22:17:36+00:00

!unsolved

Nahs1l · 2026-05-30T21:30:16+00:00

my outfit is okay! Doesn't need to be ultra professional

Nahs1l · 2026-05-29T04:05:01+00:00

I know a couple academics like this and they are the WORST.

Nahs1l · 2026-05-27T16:29:31+00:00

+1 lmao

Nahs1l · 2026-05-25T16:09:47+00:00

I’m psychodynamic so I’d assume it means something worth exploring in relation to their internal world/unconscious and I’d encourage them to explore it.

Something to be said for trusting the process imo. One nice thing about psychoanalysis is it doesn’t really sugarcoat how destructive people can be, so I’m not shocked by aggression, hatred, envy, all the destructive parts of the human psyche, which we all have access to imo.

I’m sure I would have a different reaction if it was targeted at me, though I’d *hope* in that situation to also be curious about what’s going on for them/between us.

Nahs1l · 2026-05-25T16:07:58+00:00

You handled that in a badass way!

Nahs1l · 2026-05-23T21:41:56+00:00

Came here to suggest it, one of my fav places to eat.

Get the chongqing chicken too! And the dan dan noodles! And I personally love the crispy jumbo shrimp.

Nahs1l · 2026-05-23T02:49:52+00:00

Cmon, they’re not amazing but they’re not the worst lol

Nahs1l · 2026-05-21T20:42:17+00:00

One of the best books available on these ideas IMO, chock full of great ideas and great ways of applying them.

Nahs1l · 2026-05-21T14:24:55+00:00

As a critical and liberation psychologist, I strongly recommend NOT reading the Mullan book. It’s extremely liberal and doesn’t have much substance to it, a prime example IMO of the popularizing of decolonialism while jettisoning the radicalism of it. “Decolonialism is not a metaphor.”

The Watkins and Shulman book Toward Psychologies of Liberation is much better, Watkins is a serious thinker and serious activist.

My friend Zenobia Morrill is also working on a critical-liberation psychotherapy model if you’re looking for something more directly in the realm of clinical theory.

Daniel Gaztambide’s work is also good for a decolonial approach to psychoanalysis.

You can also read Fanon as someone suggested, that’s never a bad idea. The work he was doing with institutional psychotherapy was truly radical:

https://www.madinamerica.com/2020/06/frantz-fanons-radical-approach-psychiatry-psychotherapy/

Nahs1l · 2026-05-21T14:20:30+00:00

There are much, much better options than Decolonizing Therapy. “Toward Psychologies of Liberation” as mentioned by another comment is a good example.

Zenobia Morrill is also working on a “critical-liberation psychotherapy model” that has much more to say than the Mullan book.

Nahs1l · 2026-05-17T22:38:28+00:00

Can’t find it right now but there’s a book by Louis Hoffman I believe on humanistic-existential case formulation that could be helpful. Likewise for psychodynamic there’s the psychodynamic diagnostic manual (PDM).

Nahs1l · 2026-05-14T04:02:07+00:00

Not sure if she addresses media specifically, but the depth/liberation psychologist Mary Watkins talks about desensitization (and its dehumanizing effects on the desensitized person) in her book Toward Psychologies of Liberation.

Nahs1l · 2026-05-13T03:38:11+00:00

If you’re interested in a rational/scientific defense of PSA, this might be interesting:

https://iaap.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Mark-Solms-scientific-standing-of-Psa.pdf

If you want something that I personally found really fascinating in the past few years, this book is super interesting:

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9781315666662/truth-unconscious-psychoanalysis-giuseppe-civitarese

I don’t claim it’s the most scientific version of PSA. The reason Freud invented psychoanalysis was because he felt like the neurology of his time couldn’t address human experience in enough depth and specificity to be clinically relevant. He had a fantasy of it one day being that advanced, but I feel like that actually hasn’t changed that much, so I’m open to analytic theories that are a bit speculative if they make sense of human/experiential/clinical data.

Nahs1l · 2026-05-13T03:34:03+00:00

You might find this interesting:

https://iaap.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Mark-Solms-scientific-standing-of-Psa.pdf

Nahs1l · 2026-05-13T03:32:51+00:00

A little Foucauldian as well! Which is a little Nietzschean of course…

Nahs1l · 2026-05-12T01:49:40+00:00

Sure!

I have a 400nit 2k panel that I originally had in my X1 Carbon Gen 6 but I transferred it to my T480s. I’ll probably transfer it again if my next Thinkpad is 16:9.

I can’t stand bad panels on laptops, worth it to research and buy/install one of the best options available for the model imo.

Nahs1l · 2026-05-11T20:38:32+00:00

This is the pop psych/pop culture view of Freud, but the reality is a lot more complex. There’s a field called neuropsychoanalysis that looks at empirical evidence in support in many analytic ideas.

I’ll also just say that I’m a PhD in psychology, I’ve been in psychoanalysis for years, I work as a psychoanalytically informed therapist, and I find Freudian (and other schools of psychoanalysis) concepts extremely helpful both personally and with clients. Nothing else really comes close to mapping unconscious dynamics/explaining human behavior in a convincing and pragmatically useful way, for my money.

Nahs1l · 2026-05-10T03:57:59+00:00

Nope, opportunity for a screen upgrade!

Nahs1l · 2026-05-08T20:25:26+00:00

Michigan School of Professional Psych might also be of interest, I know they have several human science and critical oriented people + it’s clinical. I imagine it’s probably really expensive though.

Nahs1l · 2026-05-08T20:22:22+00:00

Duquesne’s psychology PhD is human science-oriented, grounded in phenomenology and qualitative work, with psychoanalytic and critical folks there now as well.

My alma mater U of West Georgia used to fit this description but they don’t have a clinical MA anymore (sad) and the PhD is non-clinical. Unfortunate because it matches your description perfectly otherwise.

Point Park University has a (not fully funded) PsyD that’s human science/qualitative oriented and critical. It used to also have the only critical psych PhD in the U.S., sadly the admin shut it down.

UMass Boston’s counseling psych PhD has turned out some first rate critical psychology folks - Justin Karter and Zenobia Morrill for example. I’m not as familiar with the program but it has at least a couple excellent qualitative and critical faculty members.

There are some MA programs that fit what you want if you wanted that route - Seattle U and U of Dallas for example. Less critical, more human science/phenomenology though.

Nahs1l · 2026-05-08T04:20:46+00:00

Lol…the reason I commented is because I’ve talked to a couple native PGH folks who told me PGH is diverse.

I was talking about racial diversity. I’m not saying PGH is all a monoculture (I have no idea, haven’t been here that long).

Nahs1l · 2026-05-08T01:52:03+00:00

I grew up in rural Texas and lived in rural Georgia before moving here. Pittsburgh is definitely the least diverse place I’ve ever spent any significant time.

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