here is Daniel L. Garner (O.G. Rose) - for Voicecraft Aspasia Psyche 2024-03-16 | A conversation between Daniel L. Garner (O.G. Rose) and Aspasia Karageorge. Forgive the tiny video. One hopes that you will find a larger conversation. [ Recorded in March 2024 for Voicecraft, in the context of Daniel L. Garner's contributions to Voicecraft and finding out more about the person-of-the-contributor ]Voicecraft: @Voicecraft O.G. Rose:@O.G.Rose.Michelle.and.Daniel
Authentic Resonance & Self-forgetting (with O.G. Rose & Aspasia Karageorge) Aspasia Psyche 2024-09-20 | Daniel Garner of O.G. Rose and I build on a concept I have been playing with recently called 'authentic resonance', making important links to what O.G. Rose calls 'self-forgetfulness', creativity, humility, confidence, and kairos / καιρός. If you enjoyed this, check out my conversation with Seth Dellinger about authentic resonance which preceded this one: youtu.be/LDA8IcP3y0Q?si=a0GAoRIsXlcvgomaAbout Daniel Garner of O.G. Rose: A finalist for the UNO Press Lab Prize and Pushcart Nominee, O.G. Rose’s creative works appear at The Write Launch, Allegory Ridge, Ponder Review, Iowa Review online, The William and Mary Review, Assure Press, Toho Journal online, Broken Pencil, Burningword, and Poydras Review. While at the University of Virginia, O.G. Rose collaborated with other artists at Eunoia, a creative community Rose helped develop. Daniel now lives on a farm with hiw wife and other-half of O.G. Rose, Michelle, and three children, manages a venue named Mead Lake Lodge, and teaches piano using visuals from the DLG Pattern Method. Their published books include The Conflict of Mind (2021), Thoughts (2022), and Belonging Again: Part 1 (2023) - all highly recommended by me. Links: og-rose.com@O.G.Rose.Michelle.and.Daniel
Feldenkrais & ISTDP: Opening shared possibilities for movement ~ Seth Dellinger & Aspasia Karageorge Aspasia Psyche 2024-06-24 | Seth Dellinger and I delve into a conversation about the Feldenkrais Method and Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP) - at least the ways in which we each practice these approaches with clients. Seth and I explore parallels and intersections in how we work, highlighting shared principles in addressing patterns of movement (physical, relational, and emotional) and self-image. We talk about how each practice works to open up possibilities for movement vs. remaining ‘stuck’, and enhance patient agency both at a fine-grain level of detail and more holistically at a system level.01:39 Body Focus in Psychotherapy02:53 Observing Clients' Body Language06:04 Feldenkrais Method Basics07:56 Movement and Emotional States12:40 Building Trust 26:47 Anxiety and Body Patterns40:49 Exploring Unfamiliar Movements41:58 Adapting to Discomfort43:57 Curiosity, Playfulness, and Client Engagement45:39 Understanding Emotional Associations47:28 Intra-Psychic vs. Interpersonal Conflicts 50:17 Navigating Client Resistance52:27 Mixed Feelings and Integration54:30 Therapist's Role in Client Breakthroughs57:02 Markers of Progress in ISTDP59:52 Imaginal Techniques01:17:12 Self-Image01:18:40 Imagination and Action01:20:04 Understanding Anger and Primal Impulses01:21:42 Links to Avoided Past Experiences01:27:07 Fine-Grained Analysis & Holistic Understandings01:34:03 Choice and Agency01:35:23 The Potent Self and Ideal Movement01:39:25 The Meaning Crisis and Body Awareness01:42:37 Eyes as the window to hidden psychology01:45:06 Concluding Thoughts and Future Conversations~ WAYS TO CONTACT SETH ~sethdellinger.comFree training: The 5 Foundations of Presence:https://mailchi.mp/38989dc1a62b/5-foundations-of-presenceYouTube:youtube.com/@movewithsethSubstack:open.substack.com/pub/sethdellinger?r=p5zo5&utm_medium=iosWork with Seth:calendly.com/movewithseth/talk?month=2024-06~ FIND ME AT THESE OTHER PLACES ~Instagram:instagram.com/aspasia_psychology Journal of Contemporary ISTDP: istdpjournal.comVoicecraft: @Voicecraft Contact me via my contact form on my website:www.aspasiapsychology.com--------------------------------------------------------------------Recorded in June 2024 via Zoom
Relationship, lack, negative pragmatism - Javier Rivera & Aspasia Karageorge Aspasia Psyche 2024-05-03 | I talk with Javier Rivera about a concept he has been exploring which he calls 'negative pragmatism'. What do we do with lack? How do we account for lack? I've been following parts of Javier's dialogues with others on this topic with a lot of interest, most notably with Daniel Garner and others over at The Net (hosted by O.G. Rose). Although I was battling a head cold at the time, we managed to finally talk for the first time and lay some groundwork for subsequent dialogues in the future. It was a delight. For more from Javier and his exploration of negative pragmatism: @javiphilosophyNotes to myself (the note-form summary I write immediately after a dialogue like this):The absurdity of relationship (knowing it will always be imperfect but taking part in it anyway) and the transformative magic of love - that I choose to be here with you anyway - in this imperfect thing that can never reach the ideal; which, reveals to me over and over my own imperfections, your imperfectness, your separateness, my own separateness, the gaping chasm (lack), up against the constant drumming of the yearning (kept alive by a directionality of trying to reach the ideal and ceasing this experience of tension and excitation). And yet, through love, I can stay in it and find ever new ways to create, build, be with the certainty of imperfection inherent to relationship that is in conflict with the wish for the return to oneness, and the sparks born of this conflict are the drive to yearn and strive (for “more”, for movement, for progression of some manner, for building and not falling stagnant). If we can be with one another in the yearning, acknowledging it is the same drive which gives rise to our ability to have momentum and movement,even though it requires an experiencing of pain and sadness and grief and anger as part of it… then we open new avenues of possibility, together, full of feeling.
Talking ISTDP: Impulse, imagination, & being female (Dr Patricia Coughlin & Dr Aspasia Karageorge) Aspasia Psyche 2024-04-12 | I talk with Dr Coughlin about particular aspects of Intensive Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP) that have been on my mind in recent times. Namely, the crucial focus on the emotional impulse (not just the feeling), how our ability to imagine and visualise action facilitates our access to the unconscious (and can also get in the way), and why there are so many men and so few women in this particular part of the therapy universe. Chapter markers are below.Patricia Coughlin is a Clinical Psychologist with over 40 years of experience as a therapist and teacher. She is the author of several key ISTDP books, has a wonderful youtube channel that has been instrumental to my learning of ISTDP ( @patriciacoughlinphd1852 ) and trains psychotherapists internationally. You can find her at: istdpnortheast.com[Recorded April 2024 by Dr Aspasia Karageorge. Personal opinions only - no clinical advice included]Chapters:00:23 The action impulse of an emotion03:04 Resistance against impulse06:40 Potential mechanisms for how experiencing the impulse provides access to unconscious material 09:29 Somatic and imaginary experiencing of the impulse18:42 Imagination as a liminal space to act without truly acting22:17 Moral judgment, religion, and thought/action fusion32:01 Performative impulse vs. authentic impulse (looking out for somatic activation)33:43 ISTDP as a male dominated space, and being a female therapist 38:02 Working with defences directly, but not derogatorily
Therapy, philosophy, & the courage to be intimate (O.G. Rose & Johannes Kieding) Aspasia Psyche 2024-04-09 | Here I speak with two friends who have been instrumental to my therapy (and life) praxis - philosopher & writer, Daniel L. Garner (of O.G. Rose), and psychotherapy practitioner & trainer, Johannes Kieding (links to their channels below). We explore topics intersecting psychoanalytically-informed therapy, encountering difference, anxiety, and systems that might support the courage to face pain and challenge in the service of relationship and intimacy (not an easy task). We cover a little of Hume, Goethe, Tillich, Leibniz, among others... chapter markers below. [Recorded March 2024. Personal opinions only - no clinical advice included]00:37 - Early experiences of paradox & irony04:29 - Hume & philosophy as psychological immune system08:19 - Psychotherapy, the unconscious, & 'getting clear'13:56 - David Hume: Is, ought, suchness19:57 - Pluralism & active participation in reality25:31 - Concepts as organs of perception vs. blinders30:27 - Influence of unconscious emotions & psychoanalysis33:11 - Emotions as potentials for opening up38:34 - Finding meaning in relationship: the meaning crisis and philosophical melancholia51:40 - Lack, the apophatic, and self-forgetfulness01:02:08 - Courage to encounter the unexpected01:06:54 - Creativity01:08:12 - Cultural influences vs. psychoanalysis (pleasure principle yielding to reality principle)01:20:26 - The non-rational and absolute choice01:21:39 - Thymos and the 'unarmoured test'01:23:54 - Relationship skills, self-forgetfulness and flow01:29:40 - Anxiety, comfort, intimacy, & therapy01:42:07 - War on attention & education systems01:46:03 - Mental illness, reification, and rigidity01:53:19 - Process & the medium: effort, pace, investmentO.G. Rose:@O.G.Rose.Michelle.and.Daniel og-rose.comJohannes Kieding:@LearningForPsychotherapists johanneskieding.com
Straight lines & circles: The feminine dance & masculine systems: Adriana Forte & Aspasia Karageorge Aspasia Psyche 2024-03-30 | Adriana Forte is an incredible woman, and the creator of CLab theclab.substack.com/. Here we talk about the possibility of shaping movement between masculine and feminine, intimacy, hormones, motherhood, breakdowns, creativity, the menstrual cycle, interactions with men, system change, therapy, grief, work, going off-grid, relationship, intelligence, conflict, community, spaciousness vs. accommodation, lack, modernity, wisdom, physiology, transformation, caretaking, freedom, periods and blood, being stuck in a hallway of mirrors, men’s appreciation of women, sexuality, and there’s even a person crawling around in the background thrown in for good measure. A cyclical / spiralling (upward?) conversation around the contours of feminine experience and possibility, from the location of a particular day in early March 2024 between two curious, creative, and (dis)combobulated women.Adriana has recently created CLab, a rich space of resources, possibility, conversations, and reflections related to the cyclical feminine, and what this offers to all of us. Or, in Adriana’s words, “a cyclically informed culture in the making where we co-design systems that integrate the menstrual cycle, and more generally, a cyclical worldview”. I highly recommend checking it out: theclab.substack.comYou can also find Adriana's work at: http://www.fullyhuman.net.au
A little excerpt: Camus - Create Dangerously Aspasia Psyche 2024-01-24 | I decided to record a little of what I was reading this morning - to be honest, I have no idea why. But I went with the mystery and did it anyway. I don't really explain what I thought of it, but I introduce the text a little bit, talk about why reading this sort of stuff helps me to reflect on my therapy work in deeper ways, and then read a small section. Maybe it will be interesting... I might even do it again next week. ----I'm a clinical psychologist and researcher in Australia. The stuff I post here is my own opinion, and not to be taken as health advice. You can find me at aspasiapsychology.com, or bumping into things and buying too many books at the library basement sale.
