Frontiers | On being and having: a qualitative study of self-perceptions in bipolar disorder
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Frontiers | On being and having: a qualitative study of self-perceptions in bipolar disorder
The psychoanalyst Philip M. Bromberg wrote, “Health is the ability to stand in the spaces between realities without losing any of them. This is what I believe self-acceptance means and what creativity is really all about—the capacity to feel like one self while being many.”
David Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
The “loss of a sense of self-identity, delusions of self-identity and experiences of ‘alien control,’ ” observed an elder statesman in the field of microbiome research, are all potential symptoms of mental illness. It made my head spin to think of how many ideas had to be revisited, not least our culturally treasured notions of identity, autonomy,... See more