The cardiologist proclaimed that his most important role was to allay each patient’s fear of his heart – of being attacked by it.
I’ve long advised suffers to listen to their hearts – and give thanks.
Every day in my still meditation I repeat these – shall I call them prayers? May I be a clear channel for Your healing. and Help me to help You to heal. and I open my
When as a medical student I tried to study biochemistry, I became overwhelmed by the hundreds of equations and diagrams. They were so confusing because they seemed not to make broad sense. There seemed to be
Psychoanalysis, and all the other psychologies, are concerned with what I call the superficial unconscious of admixed love and hate. All the effort is to reduce the hate and so increase the love. But always there
Brilliantly original and deeply insightful, Twirling the Rose is one of Diamond’s most intimate and searching works.
Bill had lost twenty five pounds in weight, but, strangely, his belly seemed larger than ever. He asked me what he could do about it. My first hunch was that there was a weakness of the
The essence of psychosomatic medicine: that all the tissues and organs of the body are related to specific emotional states through the acupuncture system.
Every day at the end of my meditation I sing: Thank you, thank you, thank you, you all.
To us he is no more a person
now but a whole climate of opinion
under whom we conduct our different lives.
- W.H. Auden, “In Memory of Siegmund Freud”
Freud’s most important contribution: all our activity, mental and physical, is determined by our unconscious. Our decisions are never really based on logic.
It seems to me that the tragedy of Freud is that knowing his deep inner shall I say despair he chose what he called self-analysis rather than meditation: to find out what and why rather than Who?
