“For My Mother on My Birthday”
Mother is a Verb. “Mother is a verb, while Daughter can be nothing but a noun.” ‹1› Here am I on my birthday, thinking of, invoking, my mother. Oh, how she verbed me! I need a
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“Who Finds Who?”
Imagine Henry Moore walking along Seven Sisters beach as he did so often. Thousands and thousands little rocks everywhere. He is drawn to one, attracted by it.
“Is it Intuition or Guidance?”
This morning, just after waking, I recalled this incident at a seminar on “medical intuition:” A doctor who admitted he used intuition in his psychiatric practice was asked by the speaker whether he had told his colleagues.
“Therapeutic Humor”
It was the beginning of a seminar I was conducting in London. I looked at the audience. To nearly all of them I was a stranger as they were to me. I could feel their tension
“The Person of Virtue”
The humane person, the true philanthropist, is the person of virtue. And what is virtue? Socrates declared that virtue is knowledge. (Conversely, wrongdoing is only due to ignorance – “no one [knowingly] wishes evil,” he declared
“The ‘Mind-Forg’d Manacles’ of Birth”
William Blake's "mind-forg'd manacles"* instantly cause me to think of obstetric forceps which when applied incorrectly (a common problem, at least in my experience) distort the baby's head and thus its brain. And then I think
“Feeling Close to Paradise”
The great poet and artist William Blake believed that “we all live surrounded by hosts of spirits, that there is no real division between this world and the next.”[1] Hence, his wife, Catherine, remarked, “I have
“The Essence of the Healer’s Role”
To heal is to help the self-concerned sufferer become an altruistic healer. For to suffer is to not love – and to heal is to love. But before the sufferer can love, he must feel loved.
“The Healer’s Task is Twofold”
The sufferer does not know that he is Love. And this is the root cause of his anguish. The task of the healer is to feel the Belovedness bestowed on him, and on all, unknowingly by
“The Five Keys to Transformative Healing”
I have found over many years of clinical experience that there are five criteria, which, when met, can best ensure a satisfactory outcome from the therapeutic relationship with the sufferer. These are: 1. The insightful recognition