Sublime

even among audiences whose work involves diagnosing, understanding, or changing mental processes, only a tiny percentage have ever learned what a mind is.

Psychotherapist

psychology belongs more to the arts and humanities than to science.

“It must be stated that self-actualization is not enough. Personal salvation and what is good for the person alone cannot be really understood in isolation. . . . The good of other people must be invoked, as well as the good for oneself. . . . It is quite clear that a purely intrapsychic, individualistic psychology, without reference to other peopl

map of the sub-normative mental spectrum. Simultaneously, scientists have studied the mental states of people considered to be healthy and normative.

In contrast to a sex therapist, who specializes in treating sexual dysfunction, I treat people seeking help with more general life problems, from marital strife, to work inhibitions, to severe states of depression and anxiety.

it’s as if I’m practicing some precise psychological art, one that is ancient and poorly understood in our culture; or as if I’m learning a psychological science that helps me map the contours of consciousness itself