rich girl rehab supplemental texts
more stuff that says more, in no particular order
These texts are meant to enhance the experience of reading my essay “rich girl rehab”. It’s an ever-growing list, part bibliography, part texture.
“I’m so angry, I don’t think it will ever pass”, an essay by Clementine Morrigan
“you have to relax”, multimedia presentation by The Minute Hour and Drue Langois, featuring music by John Cage. *If you’re gonna choose one link to click in this list, click this one*
this podcast episode where the inimitable Riva Stoudt interviews Dr. Awais Aftab about what the diagnosis of borderline personality disorder is doing for us, the epistemic work it does. A very jargon-heavy episode intended for clinicians, but I bet you’ll get something out of it if the topic interests you
i made a spotify playlist about RGR. It is kinda cringe but it is true. I will keep adding stuff to it. The author’s intent is that you listen in the given order, but you know what they say about authors and their intent
“The Complications” by Emmet Rensin. One of the most thoughtful madness memoirs I have ever read. He and I have dissimilar psychiatric cases but similar biographies in many ways. I mean to write about this text more soon. It means a lot to me
“Childhood And Society” by Erik Erikson, a seminal book written by one of founders of the field of developmental psychology in the year 1950, but which sounds like the title of a rant I would go on in 2024
book-with-long-ass title about structured dissociation, an underdiscussed trauma symptom, by Dr. Janina Fisher, who’s a psychodynamic heretic; she also was a founding mother of sensorimotor psychotherapy along with Pat Ogden
this book and this book by Larry Heller and some other people about what developmental trauma is, some ways to think about it, and what to do about it from a clinical perspective
anything by D. W. Winnicott, developmental psychologist and object relations pioneer from the midcentury
i also read a lot of personal blogs that have informed my thesis of RGR. i don’t want to link them because i think they are mostly intended for consumption by people with similar experiences. but i want to give a shoutout to a few certain WordPress blogs about being a long term therapy client with profound childhood trauma, blogs which will remain nameless. if you’re reading this, old-school bloggers, thank you, thank you, thank you
“The Shame” by Makenna Goodman, a biting novel about the way being a mother can drive you to do shit you wouldn’t think you’d want to do (like get obsessed with a mommy blogger and leave your family)
This blog post about cybernetics, “The tragedy of Stafford Beer”