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James Hollis

“If we realize that the assumptions by which the person has lived his or her life are collapsing, that the assembled strategies of the provisional personality are decompensating, that a world-view is falling apart, than the thrashing about is understandable. In fact, one might even conclude that there is no such thing as a crazy act if one understands the emotional context. Emotions are not chosen they choose us and have a logic of their own.”

James Hollis, The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Midlife
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The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Midlife The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Midlife by James Hollis
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