Philosophy • psychology • psychotherapy (gnōthi seauton) • psychiatry • EN/PL • „If it required brains to figure it out, I never should have said it"
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"day draws near
another one
do what you can"
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@Orthodox_angels
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Cartoon by John O'Brien for NEW YORKER magazine, 1991.
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"In the evening, in the crudely lighted cafes where I took refuge, I read my age in faces I recognized without being able to name them. I merely knew that they had been young with me and that they were no longer so" - Albert Camus "Return To Tipasa"
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Just heard on BBC R4 news that children who parents smack tend to get lower GCSE grades...and that this is a reason to ban smacking. And on their website read the lead researcher saying "all the effects that we did find were in the direction of a harmful outcome". But this is 1/4
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"We can’t actually be at home in the world, we can only so to speak face it, confront it, with our consciousness, with our soul, in our moods - but this is usually covered up, or rather, we do everything we can to cover it up, to hide this truth. All of the ideologies... 👇👇👇
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... we see peddled in the media every day say that there is only one thing we should do: disappear into things, produce them, consume them, sink into the world to get away from ourselves, from our innermost solitude, which isn’t seen as... 👇👇👇
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... something linked to God, through silence, but as something threatening and terrifying. People are scared of themselves, and scared of God, that’s all there is to it."
Source: norla.no/book_files/220-Foss… (@Norwegianbooks)
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"It is more important to know the patient who has the disease than the disease the patient has"
Hippocrates
The royal road to really understanding people is being interested in the seemingly mundane details of their everyday lives.
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A philosopher (@SahanikaR) asks whether therapy should be evaluated like drugs...
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@TheBJPsych
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"Because there, in the Church, or in the Christianity of the meeting houses as I had experienced it - at least in those pragmatic literal Lutheran Strandebarm meeting houses - there was no mystery. The farthest I can remember the minister there ever reaching for... 👇👇👇
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... a figurative interpretation of anything was when he said that in Jesus’s day the wine might have been alcohol-free. Right."
Source: norla.no/book_files/220-Foss… (@Norwegianbooks)
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A new discovery of mine. Strongly recommended!
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@DrGipps @Ljiljana1972 @zagozdzon
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An imaginary dialogue between Thomas Merton and Albert Camus:
Merton: "Do not let me trust what I can grasp between my fingers. Death will loosen my grasp and my vain hope will be gone."
Camus: But there are "only stones, flesh, stars, and those truths the hand can touch"
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Merton: In such a case, then, our hope is "doomed to frustration ... nothing but despair"
Isn’t this kind of despair exactly what Camus has been struggling with throughout his entire work?
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For years, the Irish Police (the Garda Siochana) considered Prawo Jazdy as one of the most prolific offenders in the country with more than 50 traffic related offenses. The case was later dropped when it was established that Prawo Jazdy meant Driver's License in Polish.
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RT @AllenFrancesMD: "Know Thyself".
Countertransference is also a problem/opportunity in every form of therapy.
Major reason for dropouts…
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