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what the hell is NEGATIVE PRACTICE?

This is not therapy. Not even its opposite.


Negative practice is not aimed at healing or improvement. It’s not a method, not a path, not a guidance, not a step toward anything. While most forms of therapy and consultancy turn toward recovery, repair, resolution, or relief, this practice stays with what is broken and irreparable.


It does not aim to improve your life. It does not hold space for your growth. It is not guided by the hope that despair is ultimately something to overcome.
Negative practice is not an alternative therapeutic method. It does not compete with other approaches, because it does not aim to fix. It offers nothing better. It is for those who no longer believe in salvation of any kind.


It speaks to those with nothing left to rehabilitate, or for whom the promise of healing has become irritating, dishonest, or laughable.

 
Negative practice is not here to take hope away—but to remain where it used to be. If love means staying with what hurts, then negative practice is a form of love. It is a practice of shared despair, confusion, and not-knowing. A space to cry or laugh in despair.

 

Not to cure, progress, or improve—just to fail together.

CERTIFIED NEGATIVE PRACTITIONERS

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Arvin
Bains

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Dilyana Kiryakova-Ryan

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Mark Orlovsky

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Elena Ostrakova

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Kafelê
Tudor-Rosa

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Simone
Medina Polo

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Javier
Rivera

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Jason
Ross

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Gregory Rodriguez

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Ainsley Rucker

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Moises Ramirez

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Mats Gunnars

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Polya Medvedeva

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Melissa Witter

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Maxim
Isakov

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Johan
Trip

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Nicholas Stock

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Chauncey Patton

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Adrian
Wainwright

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Matthew Hancocks

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Brad
Randel

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Molly Thomas

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Leonor

Firth

Nick Stock: The Educational Tragedy
52:16
Jason Ross: No Cure for You – If Buddha Were Your Psychoanalyst?
48:48
Javier Rivera: On Giving Up
54:06
Kafele Tudor-Rosa: A Psychoanalytic Argument for the Integration of Pessimism
15:22
Simone A. Medina Polo - Tiresias, The Patron Saint of Psychoanalysis
35:46
Ainsley Rucker: Broken Promises and Academic Disillusionment
25:34
Julie Reshe: THE HAPPY DEAD. TOXIC POSITIVITY
20:29
Julie Reshe - In Search of the Negative
33:44
Arvin Bains - Situating Spielrein's Death Drive within Contemporary Psychoanalysis
44:39
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THERE ARE CURRENTLY SEVERAL WAYS TO STUDY WITH ME TO  BECOME A NEGATIVE PRACTITIONER:

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