Sublime

Neurosis and Human Growth de Karen Horney est le livre que j’ai le plus abondamment annoté pendant mes années de résidence. Sullivan avait beaucoup de choses à enseigner, malheureusement c’était un écrivain si exécrable que ses idées n’ont pas eu l’impact qu’elles méritaient. Ses travaux m’ont néanmoins aidé à comprendre que la plupart de nos

Charles Segal, a recently retired Harvard professor of classics who taught my Greek Tragedy course, spoke about how the Oedipus trilogy reminded him of Erik Erikson’s three stages of development. In youth, Professor Segal said, a person struggles to figure out who they are in relation to their parents (a real head scratcher in Oedipus’s case). In

As a therapist, I have three sources of information: each client’s report, what happens in front of me in the room, and how I feel sitting with the client.

Sullivan believed that our struggles were interactional (meaning “relational”). He went so far as to say, “It’s the mark of a senior clinician that he or she is the same person in their living room that they are in their office.” We can’t teach patients to be relational if we aren’t relational with them.

First identified by the renowned psychoanalyst Isabel Menzies Lyth in 1960, depersonalization is manifested, in part, by the referencing of patients not by name but by disease.

Rushworth Kidder, the founder of the Institute for Global Ethics and author of Moral Courage and How Good People Make Tough Choices,