I'll take a snowfall any time--provided of course I've got a book, fireplace, and some tea to watch it out the window!
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I'll take a snowfall any time--provided of course I've got a book, fireplace, and some tea to watch it out the window!
Repackaged and then trademarked/copyrighted so they can turn around and run exclusive "training sessions" at $3995 a pop.
Basically the topic of my next book: the virtues necessary for a person to be a good psychotherapist.
In my experience treatment with the opt-in folks is usually stronger and faster: more a process of recovering what they once had (e.g., a history of mentalization) rather than building from scratch.
Oooh purple! One Amish farmer at the local market sells those and I love them.
What makes the potatoes fancy?
More baffling still: they have no purpose but to destroy.
In the March cover story for Psychiatric Times, I provide an overview of the proposed changes to the future DSM, accompanied by some personal commentary and suggestions of my own.
www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/the-fut...
That impish smile is *perfect*!
Having a Scottish mother, I should like the Order of the Thistle.
They used to land in my late father-in-law's garden and snatch whatever small animals were to hand. "Oh he just wants a hot meal!" my FinL would chuckle sympathetically while the rest of us were put off our dinner.
The Germans must have a word for this.
Pissy indeed: explain the poor fig tree's being cursed out!
I don't need to ask this but has nobody in the regime read about the Gallipoli campaign of 1915? Those men, made of presumably sterner stuff, folded after a few mines blew up a few older ships. How much faster will the panic be today?
socially constructed idealism and romanticism full of many pitfalls churchmen pitch themselves head first into all the time (cf. that fatuous "theology of the body").
into a gibbering mess of hermeneutic disasters. To use a hackneyed bit of MacIntyre here: Whose nature? Which interpretation? It seems to me the very moment you start speaking of "nature" in any singular way you've already made an a priori interpretive decision and are entangled in some sort of
Have you, or anyone else (Rorty? Gadamer? Ricoeur?), really pressed hard on the huge ambivalence in usage of the term 'natural law,' more than you (commendably!) did here? It seems to bear far more weight than it can possibly support and I suspect it wouldn't take much for it to completely collapse
You're a careful enough thinker *not* to rant, which is why you're always worth reading.
If there's malt vinegar I'm there.
@1t2ls.bsky.social
One of the many unexpected things in weird northern Indiana is the ubiquity of excellent little local taco joints with amazing tacos far cheaper than the chains and much tastier too.
My students love this book:
www.amazon.com/Personality-...
This is DSM 5, which is at its weakest precisely on personality disorders. Robert Feinstein's book from Oxford UP is so much better.
Not in any unique way. I think it's a generally human trait most of us struggle with at least occasionally.
I'll make some bread and a nice pot of soup. What else you need?
@1t2ls.bsky.social : reference to Rorty here in this interview with Adam Phillips, the most interesting psychoanalyst writing in English today.
www.culturedmag.com/article/2026...
My oldest friend in Ottawa is originally from Crete. We often talked about going there to see where his parents grew up, but haven't made it. I did get to Cyprus in the 90s and it was amazing.
Just started my first episode so thanks for mentioning her. I love Greek food and she bears an uncanny resemblance to my first analyst so now I have to watch all the episodes!