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About five months ago the head psychiatrist at the clinic where I work approached me about starting a peer supervision group for the Interns and Externs training there. He wanted to construct a space where they could present and discuss their cases, receive feedback from their peers and also raise any issues that they were [...]
A joke told by my supervisor: A client speaking to his Rogerian therapist says: “I am so depressed, I just don’t feel like is worth living.” The therapist replies: “I hear you saying that you are in pain and that you are not sure how you will ever feel better.” The client replies by saying: [...]
Though the main fixtures of a classic, Hollywood film are conspicuously absent – narrative, sequential time, protagonist – it would be a mistake to describe Terence Davies’ film as experimental. Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) does not, after all, revel in its play with filmic form: it does not push the limits of film language [...]
The process of terminating with ongoing psychotherapy patients, especially long-term patients (those generally seen for a year or more) is one that can be very meaningful and emotional for both therapist and patient. Termination has appropriately been linked with past experiences of loss and abandonment, existential fears of death and dying, as well as with [...]
Donnel Stern’s introduction to the single volume edition of the psychoanalyst Edgar Levenson’s two major books, The Fallacy of Understanding (1972) and The Ambiguity of Change (1983) (published together by Analytic Press, 2005) attempts to both contextualize and highlight the important aspects of Levenson’s work. Not surprisingly, Stern’s introductory remarks are shaped by the current [...]
The role of statistics in sports can be generally stated as providing more objective and sophisticated evaluations of an athlete’s performance. At its heart, statistics are tools that can be used to increase a team’s chance of winning a game. In this sense, much like counting cards can help win at blackjack, keeping track of [...]
Colin Burrow’s review of the most recent English version of Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron (The London Review of Books: 12 March 2009) is less an evaluation of the merits of J.G. Nichols’s translation than an occasion to reopen some pertinent questions regarding the psychological dimension of literary narrative. Though the Decameron’s own generic heritage is mixed–its [...]
It’s one thing to give a TED talk, and quite another to conduct further research during the very TED talk you’re giving. In a recent, thought-provoking post, Jan Chipchase, the well-known Nokia design anthropologist, confessed to just how disingenuous he found the applause that greeted him two years earlier. You might think that such an [...]
In an article entitled “Looking Differently at ADHD,” Julie Hail Flory reframes so-called attention deficit in terms of “memory retrieval”, or the “failure of active maintenance.” It happens to us all – you walk to the refrigerator, open the door, then stand there, unable to remember why you went to the kitchen in the first [...]
Though little-known and only once republished, “A Treatise of the Bulk and Selvedge of the World” (1674) by Nathaniel Fairfax, physician and fringe member of the Royal Society, remains a remarkable document, literarily and historically. Conceived at the apogee of what might just be the most awkward moment in English letters – when respected intellectuals [...]
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