Sublime

Nous avions pour manuel la très prisée Histoire de la philosophie occidentale de Bertrand Russell, des pages qui, après tant de précis de physiologie, médecine, chirurgie, obstétrique, me paraissaient de l’ambroisie. Depuis ce premier survol, j’ai étudié la philosophie en autodidacte, lisant intensément et suivant des cours en auditeur libre à John

In Adlerian psychology, trauma is definitively denied. This was a very new and revolutionary point. Certainly, the Freudian view of trauma is fascinating. Freud’s idea is that a person’s psychic wounds (traumas) cause his or her present unhappiness. When you treat a person’s life as a vast narrative, there is an easily understandable causality and

By combining Husserl's ideas and the ideas behind Gestalt psychology, Gurwitsch came to reject the notion of an ego as a phenomenological datum and saw the 'I' instead as a chain of experiences.

When memory function is inhibited, emotionally significant information bypasses the frontal lobes and cannot be named or ordered through words or language, as Bessel van der Kolk describes.

Just as surgeons must first learn anatomy, the future “Angst doctor” must first understand the relationship between the one who counsels and the one who is counseled. And, if I am to contribute to the science of such counseling, I must learn to observe the counseling relationship just as objectively as the pigeon’s brain.