Ron Wright

“Psychotherapy is not making clever and apt interpretations; by and large it is a long-term giving the patient back what the patient brings.” ~Donald Winnicott, from “Mirror-role of mother and family in child development”

“So the man who falls in love with beauty is quite different from the man who loves a girl and feels she is beautiful and can see what is beautiful about her.” ~Donald Winnicott, from “Mirror-role of mother and family in child development”

This is the work of psychotherapy: to learn both to assume an identity and to call it into question. It is one of the principal ways that talking helps."
~ Deborah Anna Luepnitz, Schopenhauer's Porcupines

"For Lacan, all identities are mistaken in the sense that they are superficial, partial. We use them to function in the world, but we need to remember the cost. The point is not to go nameless, to refuse the question 'Who am I?', but to keep the conversation about identity going.

I think good psychotherapy is also meant to be more like LARPing, improvisation and participation within a narrative framework, than like an manualized treatment. This distinction is where American psychotherapy went wrong.

These thoughts are not unrelated to the Buber quote I posted.

Christian faith is meant to be more like LARPing, improvisation and participation within a narrative framework, than like an instructional manual. This distinction is where American evangelicalism went wrong.

“The basic words are not single words but word pairs. One basic word is the word pair I-You. The other basic word is the word pair I-It…thus the I of man is also twofold. For the I of the basic word I-You is different from that in the basic word I-It”
- Martin Buber

11 blocks for Thunder midway through the 3rd quarter is ridiculous for a team where all 3 bigs are out. So much length everywhere on the floor.

has no choice but to unite himself in the spontaneity of love and productive work or else to seek a kind of security by such ties with the world as destroy his freedom and the integrity of his individual self."

I have been thinking a lot about this quote from Erich Fromm over the past week:

"...that man, the more he gains in freedom in the sense of emerging from the original oneness with man and nature and the more he becomes an 'individual,'