Status Updates From The Inkblots: Hermann Rorsc...

Loving this so far

"...Wings here, head could be here or here. Wings out flying. Wings outstretched, ears, can't tell which side is facing, a diagrammatic representation. Wire-haired fox terrier, the head is here, the shape and little furry around nose. Wishbone. Wishbone. Wishes never came true, but it was fun to pretend..." - from 'The Inkblot Record' by Dan Farrell

"By the end of the war, the thirty-five [psychiatrists in the US Army] had become a thousand in the army and another seven hundred in the rest of the military, including “practically every member” of the American Psychiatric Association, “not barred by age, disability or earmarked as essential for civilian psychiatry,” as well as plenty of new recruits." p. 202

"Bleuler found it productive to have one's views challenged; not so Freud, who dismissed all of Bleuler’s reasonable doubts as resistance to the great truth and turned his attention to Bleuler's younger colleague [Jung]." p. 46

This book is fascinating. The discussion of the coinciding emergences of the concept of empathy and abstract art was fascinating. This book should be made into a play or a movie.