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Good Morning, Monster: A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery
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Too Close to the Falls: A Memoir
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1999
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After the Falls
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Coming Ashore: A Memoir
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Seduction
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Old Age part 4--Laying down the sabre of personal rectitude
Everyone is born with a certain personality. As a psychologist I know you can trim the edges , and make them more adaptable, but you never change them. Whatever personality they exhibited in their first year-- they will have for the rest of their lives.
Many of us who were given the argumentative type of personality have tried to quell it over the years. Usually there is a lot of pressure to Read more of this blog post »
“powerlessness in a relationship is one of the main causes of stress or anxiety. Making psychological changes also provokes anxiety. It’s very hard to break a habit, especially when you’ve adapted yourself to a particular pattern that, however maladaptive, has kept you alive. The unconscious is powerful, and it will fight to the death to keep an old pattern in place.”
― Good Morning, Monster: A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery
― Good Morning, Monster: A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery
“Whatever role we are loved for in our family, we will continue to enact it, despite the toll it takes.”
― Good Morning, Monster: A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery
― Good Morning, Monster: A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery
“Anger is not a feeling; it’s a defence. When you can’t acknowledge your true feelings because they’re too excruciating, you defend against them with anger.”
― Good Morning, Monster: A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery
― Good Morning, Monster: A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery
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“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.”
― Collected Essays
― Collected Essays
“Disappointed in his hope that I would give him the fictional equivalent of “One Hundred Ways of Cooking Eggs” or the “Carnet de la Ménagère,” he began to cross-examine me about my methods of “collecting material.” Did I keep a notebook or a daily journal? Did I jot down thoughts and phrases in a cardindex? Did I systematically frequent the drawing-rooms of the rich and fashionable? Or did I, on the contrary, inhabit the Sussex downs? or spend my evenings looking for “copy” in East End gin-palaces? Did I think it was wise to frequent the company of intellectuals? Was it a good thing for a writer of novels to try to be well educated, or should he confine his reading exclusively to other novels? And so on. I did my best to reply to these questions — as non-committally, of course, as I could.
And as the young man still looked rather disappointed, I volunteered a final piece of advice, gratuitously. “My young friend,” I said, “if you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is to keep a pair of cats.” And with that I left him. I hope, for his own sake, that he took my advice.”
― Collected Essays
And as the young man still looked rather disappointed, I volunteered a final piece of advice, gratuitously. “My young friend,” I said, “if you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is to keep a pair of cats.” And with that I left him. I hope, for his own sake, that he took my advice.”
― Collected Essays
“gave me a going-away present on behalf of Rochdale, a book by Paul Tillich called The Courage To Be. Bob wrote inside, Cathy, read this sometime in your life when you need “to be.” He was right. Later in my life when I was at a low that book pulled me through.”
― Coming Ashore
― Coming Ashore
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i kinda agree with alan watts view of the eastern and western mind, that we tend to over analyze.. get caught in my mind, i don't knowi am a pottery, so clay is my book, but i love words too
smellincoly [ edit ]smellincoly is a folly
that was made before the rose
it is about the nose's eye,
that from a range of smell
does remember from it's well
exactly what took place
the oldest sense they say
i like nose without any clothes
i love the smell of things
like the spring dirt, it could
be worse, so don't hang no
blame on a nose's leg
the diaper from your nanny
or yes, your first bananay
and the taste of tears of
babies blues taste salty
like a kitchen chair
and lick we did toys and
books anything near
all the tastebud in the
tray for the nose
to have some hay
old barn the smell of
the horse, smellincoly
was my choice
apple pie, from silly sal
maybe pickles wrinkled
up our eyes and all the
seas have their own
smell
even plastic
has a yell lipsticks sweet
and barbeced meat frog
ponds and liliac frocks
even a night in the quiet
of a dark blossomed with
smells to the reason's
contend
whiskey glass ink splash
street heat snow knows
and all about the nose
this lovely lovely rose
in the middle of the face
the queen the king
the one who keeps you
clean takes away
the mouth's control, the
eyes of hate yes,
smellincoly has merit
as the sense that has
no nonsense.
Hi, Cathy,Thought you might like to know that Letters to a Young Madman has been chosen as a finalist for a 2013 MN Book Award. Here's a link if you want to see all the books in all categories: http://www.thefriends.org/programs/mn...
Jane
