Sublime

there was around a 40 per cent turnover in network membership (technically known as ‘churn’) over the eighteen months that we had been tracking them.

An inner voice was always an outer voice that we have – imperceptibly – made our own. We’ve absorbed the tone of a kind and gentle caregiver who liked to laugh indulgently at our foibles and had endearing names for us. Or else we have taken in the voice of a harassed or angry parent, never satisfied with anything we achieved and full of rage and

The twentieth-century psychoanalyst Donald W. Winnicott observed that children playing within a certain radius of their mothers display higher levels of creativity in their games than those who play farther away.

As Adam Phillips once said about psychoanalysis: “like all essentialist theories,” it “makes a cult out of what could be just good company.”

inevitably involves also working on self-soothing and managing our own distress too.

The brain sorts through an abundance of information and decides what salient information to include in its stream of consciousness.

Parent in Child (“Magical Parent”) Adult in Child (“Little Professor”) Child in Child (“Somatic Child”)

David Barlow. He was (and still is) one of the premiere anxiety researchers on the planet.

Her paper was, for example, unselfconsciously dense with her own terminology, paying no attention to the medium in which she wrote. Winnicott’s paper, packed as it is with references to language, was at least attentive to the fact that psychoanalytic theory, like a person’s account of his feelings, is made with words.