Psychodynamic

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Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

—Carl Jung

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The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others.

—Erik Erikson

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I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

—Anna Freud

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It is a joy to be hidden, and a disaster not to be found.

—Donald Winnicott

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We do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.

—Anaïs Nin

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One's main task in life is to give birth to oneself, to become what one potentially is.

—Erich Fromm

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Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

—Karen Horney

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Every accusation is a confession.

—Sigmund Freud

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I am that.

—Nisargadatta Maharaj

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Poem: Therapy

Poem: Therapy from the Garden

Poem: Speech Therapy

Poem: The Secret Panel

Poem: My therapist called it “climate despair”

Poem: My Therapist Talks About Biddle City

Poem: My Therapist Wants to Know about My Relationship to Work

Poem: History of a Therapist

Poem: Flourishing

Poem: Self-Care Is a Psy-Op

Poem: Pathogenesis

Poem: What of Fire?

Poem: On Anger

Poem: Names for Hunger

Poem: Ode to People Who Hate Me

Poem: Demon and The Dove

Poem: Freud’s War

Poem: Freud’s Beautiful Things

Poem: The Forms of Resistance

Poem: From “Unexhausted Time”

Poem: Truth-Taking Stare

Poem: Oneirology

Poem: Pops Dead Four Months. Remembering Pops Taught Me to Float on My Back. Watching “Moonlight” on My Delta Flight After Leaving Abuela Ana’s Casket with Abuelo’s in Santiago, Dominican Republic.

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Projective identification

Repetition compulsion

Self Psychology

Karen Horney

Egosyntonic vs egodystonic

Psychoanalytic terms & concepts

APA dictionary of psychology

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