Working with clients in psychoanalysis, one of the hardest tasks is helping them to see the negative things they do without realizing it. Self-destructive habits, procrastination of important activities, reckless or careless behaviors — these all have causes from deep inside that we can’t get to without help. Freud mistakenly linked these to what he
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I'm Richard Lloyd Jones, and this is Thinking with Somebody Else's Head. Ask them about what's important to them and they'll counter your enthusiasm with a shrug and a mumbled, "I don't know." Somewhere between kid-dom and adolescence, your child stops asking sweek, inquisitive questions and starts acting like everything you care about and they
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Here’s a wild thought: it’s our socio-economic structure that is causing most of our distress and misery today. We’ll even go a little further: it leading us into mental and physical illness. After all, human beings cannot live in balance if society is out of balance. The dynamics between the individual’s internal problems and the
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Some see our most important issues as social ones. Hunger. Injustice. The gap between rich and poor. Others see the lack of ethics in leadership as most pressing. While for many, our environmental crises supercede everything else. Here in Brazil, we acknowledge it all as evidence of our inversion. And then ... we go a
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