Sublime

A psychiatrist colleague tells me that such moments, when there’s a clear mismatch between what a patient says and the intensity of feeling with which he or she says it, are especially ripe for probing.

I’ve met with nearly 3,000 criminals, and only a handful of them have been psychopaths. But that handful was really messed up. Like, Hannibal Lecter level of creepy. I strongly doubt that one percent of the world’s population is psychopathic.

Paradoxical intention can also be applied in cases of sleep disturbance.

Our errors about what others are thinking are a major cause of human drama.

Indeed, it is only after Freud that depictions of human absurdity have become commonplace.