Clinical Psychologist. Former Army 🇺🇸 Here to Educate and Entertain.
Flavortown, OH
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Hello new followers! I am a psychologist in the great state of Ohio. I learned to be a therapist treating Vietnam Veterans. My dissertation is on positive change after trauma. My clients are Veterans, police officers, emergency care workers, and first-responders. And I make memes
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Work is deliberate play. I say this a lot to stoics (they tend to forget)
Play is solemnity, not silliness. Adults who try to “recapture their childhood” often do so by trying to capture the whimsy of childhood. But play is serious for children, not whimsical. It’s whimsical for adults to watch, so the wires get crossed. They are “recapturing” the feeling of watching themselves watch children, watching their own memories, not of being a child. To recapture your childhood energy, take something incredibly seriously.
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Edward A. Perin - Psychologist retweeted
Yes! Play is serious! 👍
As a psychoanalytic therapist who works with children by using play therapy, I sometimes hear the question, “but what about play therapy for adults?”
Well, the good news is that we already HAVE “play therapy for adults.”
It’s called “psychoanalysis.”
Play is solemnity, not silliness. Adults who try to “recapture their childhood” often do so by trying to capture the whimsy of childhood. But play is serious for children, not whimsical. It’s whimsical for adults to watch, so the wires get crossed. They are “recapturing” the feeling of watching themselves watch children, watching their own memories, not of being a child. To recapture your childhood energy, take something incredibly seriously.
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I can’t believe I was kicked out of the WoW: Forever Beta for naming my character Objet PetitA. Apparently the name is available, but the devs will never let you actually have it.
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I can’t believe I was kicked out of the WoW: Forever Beta for naming my character after psychoanalyst Melanie Klein. I appealed to the good-name playerbase but the bad-name playerbase says it was deserved.
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Everyone wants to be a rockstar, only a few people practice scales for ten thousand hours
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Edward A. Perin - Psychologist retweeted
The All American Quarter Horse Congress in in town this weekend - don't get too excited, because nothing ever makes it out of committee. There hasn't been an 'Aye' vote in decades.
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