Monica Samelson

@monicocelot.bsky.social

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I'm a parent, writer, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in Chicago. A newsletter: https://monicocelot.ghost.io/

Image of an icy lake with the text: keeping each other in mind; on theory of mind, thirdness and third spaces, and surrendering with agency
A weird rainbow appears in a cloudy sky over a brick building. The rainbow is vertical and slightly curved, and there's a more faded extension that forms a semicircle above and below it
Big snow-covered jigsaw puzzle pieces of ice fill up the surface of a lake, extending all the way to the horizon, where it meets a blue nearly-cloudless sky
a photo of a fossil at the Field Museum, a stem and long leaves fanning out from the center, with interspersed little fish fossilized throughout
A trashcan is on its side on the frozen portion of a harbor in Lake Michigan. Trash pours out of its open lid and a halo of exposed ice breaks the stretch of snow
A photo of Lake Michigan. Half the image is taken up by a bright blue sky splattered with clouds. Underneath, a grey mass of water churns with uneven waves. There's a shadow along the foreground of the lake, and a strip of greenish blue along the horizon.