I was once intrigued by the title of a book, The Quiet Therapies. It led me to wonder who the quietest therapist I had ever known was. The answer was obvious. He was not a psychiatrist, nor a psychologist, nor even a doctor. He was the male nurse in charge of the psychiatry wards at a hospital in which I worked many years ago. His name was Wally Brown.
"What more do you want out of life?" she asked quite unexpectedly, looking straight into my eyes. "I don't know...not much," I replied, turning away from her, taken aback, "I am really pretty happy with things
The most basic and primitive emotion is love in its various manifestations. This has been neglected in medicine, neglected in psychiatry, and neglected in our society. We don't read in the newspapers about love. We don't
You look at some modern art and proclaim that a child could paint it. But you've got it the wrong way around! Instead look at the Art on a refrigerator door and declare that no artist
In the old days, when the spirit left someone, when the will to live and to be whole and perfect left him, he just died.
The great Confucian philosopher Mencius stated – and I’m sure believed – that love is basic to our nature as it is the nature of water to flow downhill. Every problem is a pebble, perhaps a
There is a new exhibition of Dr. Diamond's magnificent photographic prints at Mimi's Coffee House in Mount Kisco, NY running September and October. The exhibition focuses on two aspects of Dr. Diamond's approach: his street photographs
At some level – superficial, shallow or deep – every work of art still transmits the basic problems of life, for example, the fear of death. For few persons have ever really overcome them, at the
Ethics is the taking responsibility for all of one's actions — and thoughts, for they, too, radiate just as far. How far? Every action, physical or mental, lives on for ever, resonating through its effects on
"Revelation," Emerson wrote, "is the disclosure of the soul.”* To go to the soul - of the composer, of the poet, of the painter, of the sufferer, of every thing and every one - this alone
