Elari’s Reviews > The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness > Status Update
Elari
is on page 31 of 218
The clinical psychiatrist, wishing to be more 'scientific' or 'objective', may propose to confine himself to the 'objectively' observable behaviour of the patient before him. The simplest reply to this is that it is impossible. To see 'signs' of 'disease' is not to see neutrally.
— Apr 29, 2022 04:59PM
Like flag
Elari’s Previous Updates
Elari
is on page 61 of 218
The task in psychotherapy [is] to make, using Jaspers's expression, an appeal to the freedom of the patient.
— Apr 29, 2022 08:55PM
Elari
is on page 52 of 218
The fact that the other person in his own actuality is not me, is set against the equally real fact that my attachment to him is a part of me. If he dies or goes away, he has gone, but my attachment to him persists. But in the last resort I cannot die another person's death for him, nor can he die my death. In short, he cannot be me, and I cannot be him.
— Apr 29, 2022 08:54PM
