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 patie

Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates

“Nobody understood their real motivations.” “And isn’t that the truth! Over the years, I’ve found that people tend to act automatically and think automatically, but when they’re pressed to explain why they act or think a certain way, they rush into the void and invent a story. And then, incredibly, they believe that story.” “Even if the story isn’t

Monica Whitty examined the traits that make victims vulnerable. She found that around two-thirds of victims are women. They tend to be middle-aged, to score high on impulsivity and sensation-seeking, to be less kind but at the same time more trusting, and to have an addictive personality (which is likely to make them more clingy).

theory of mind allows us to lie convincingly.

Ernest Hartmann, a psychiatrist at Tufts University School of Medicine presented an innovative approach in his book Boundaries in the Mind (1991). Hartmann’s thinking about boundaries has some remarkable parallels with Jean Shinoda Bolen’s interpretation of the Greek trickster, Hermes.