Sublime

psychology was a noisy dinner party during which the guests talked past one another and changed the subject with bewildering frequency. The Gestalt psychologists and the behaviorists and the psychoanalysts might all be jammed into the same building with a plaque on the front that said Department of Psychology, but they didn’t waste a lot of time li

Julius Wagner-Jauregg was a 19th-century psychiatrist with two unique skills: He was good at recognizing patterns, and what others saw as “crazy” he found merely “bold.”

Because the mono-mind view is so ubiquitous and assumed in our culture, we never really question the truth of it.

Écrivant cela, l’idée me vient que moi-même j’ai donné jusqu’à un âge relativement avancé dans le culte romantique de la folie. Cela m’a passé, Dieu merci. L’expérience m’a appris que ce romantisme-là est une connerie, que la folie est ce qu’il y a de plus triste et morne au monde, et je pense que cela, Édouard l’a toujours su, d’instinct, qu’il s’

Physiologically and emotionally, the child or adult with ADD swings back and forth between over-the-top, purposeless excitement and a nonrestful vegetative state in which the predominant emotion is shame. Some tend to get stuck at one or the other of these opposite poles. The two states may also be present at the same time, resulting in agitated, u