Rachel Aviv

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401 appearances 3 recordings 3 series first heard Jan 2025 last heard 6 Jul

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So I think I knew it was bothering everyone, but I must have felt like on some level they secretly respected it.

Because I think that's how I felt about myself for a while, that like I had shown how strong I was.

Well, it's hard because I had child therapy and there were theories floated then that I have now taken as my own.

But I think not eating is the most profound way to separate yourself from...

Well, actually, I mean, that comes from my therapist.

I remember her saying as a child that like, and it was overwrought and she was like this trained as a psychoanalyst, but I was six.

So it was sort of ill-fitting.

But I remember her saying like, the mother symbolizes milk and you're rejecting the mother and sort of asserting your own boundaries.

And I don't know about the milk part, but that has some resonance.

Yeah.

Mm-hmm.

I often think, I mean, after I was released from the hospital after six weeks, I was required to go to therapy three times a week.

So that was from first grade to fifth grade, like three times a week, 45 minutes each.

sort of psychoanalytic therapy.

And I have no idea whether that was sort of emotionally useful, but I do feel like intellectually it was useful in some way.

Like it taught me a certain way of talking about the mind and thinking about the mind and not assuming that the surface layer of behavior

is true or sort of always like feeling that there is something underneath that surface layer or that there are conflicted feelings.

It just gave me a different kind of language for appreciating like how complex people's minds are.

So I sometimes think that those five years of therapy, which I found like humiliating and invasive, really shaped the way I think about people.

I have thought about that so much.

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