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One of the aims of psychoanalysis was to re-establish continuity with whatever constituted the patient’s ‘personal beginning’.
Adam Phillips • Winnicott
The science of apathy and empathy, loneliness and resilience is critical to understanding the complex puzzle of the human brain and the human heart, and essential to understanding our emotional lives, our communities, and the broader society.
Sharon Brous • The Amen Effect: Ancient Wisdom to Mend Our Broken Hearts and World
the mind was influenced by the body, the doctor had a part to play in teaching virtue.
Roy Porter • The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity (The Norton History of Science)
because it is essentially transitional to an unknowable destination, it could never be conclusive. A good interpretation, one could say, is something the patient can entertain in his mind.
Adam Phillips • Winnicott
Does that mean that psychiatry leaves no room for divinity? That we’d medicate a person out of what could otherwise be a transformative and saintly life? That we’d subjugate—or, worse, block—some message from God?”
Christine Montross • Falling Into the Fire: A Psychiatrist's Encounters with the Mind in Crisis
Bias in Psychiatric Diagnosis: How Perspectives and Politics Replace Science in Mental Health
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it was through psychoanalysis that Freud was enquiring into the value and purpose and limits of so-called self-knowledge, and therefore of curiosity; subjects of course integral to the work of Musil and Mann. That unconsciously, as it were, he was asking the pragmatic question, the question so usefully redescribed by William James and Richard Rorty
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