Today

First Freud, now Jung...

Psychology’s Magician

...and sometimes a psychologist is just a psychologist...

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A great article

from the London Review of Books:

Diary: Jenny Diski

SWMBO and I both owned copies of the book before we met. We have one at home now. The book, despite its failings, is a classic, and very interesting for many reasons and on lots of levels. And so on.

But I repeat myself...

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Such difficult things

Hoarding: How Collecting Stuff Can Destroy Your Life

I am part-way between being a collector and being a hoarder. Most of the things that I started out collecting became things that I hoarded. I don't collect anymore, not stamps, coins, etc. Getting the things was hard because one spends money they don't want to spend, but getting rid of a 'collection' when it gets to be too much is every bit as hard. Saving paper because the information could be valuable 'some day' is much the same thing.

No, I don't want to hoard, thank you...

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A heart-rending

and honest story...

The monster inside my son

"For years I thought of his autism as beautiful and mysterious. But when he turned unspeakably violent, I had to question everything I knew."

"Hope was bullshit. Hope was exactly what had been lost."

Good grief!

Should overuse of the Internet become a mental disorder?

What would constitute 'overuse'? Who would decide? Who would determine how much is harmful? How would they try to treat it? Would that just apply to gaming, or porn sites, or would that include stock market sites, news sites, or, perish the thought, psychology or medical forums and email? It might be cultural rather than medical, might it not? It would be a silly idea. He states it pretty well in the article: "Have we lost all perspective here?"

I believe it


Cuppa tastes better from favourite mug

Then there are those who have favourite mug collections...

(Hi, SWMBO!)

And he wants the courts

to give him back his gun and badge?

NYPD being sued by cop who saw demon and wants his gun back

Oh, my!

An interesting period

in Mr. Lewis' life...


C. S. Lewis and Mrs. Moore

"Literature offers us a rich panorama of marriages in which the woman is a shrew and the husband a victim."

...and more...

"the capacity to be alone"

An important article...


The End of Alone

"At our desk, on the road, or on a remote beach, the world is a tap away. It's so cool. And yet it's not. What we lose with our constant connectedness."

And until

the reviewer experiences a true OCD period in his life
 he won't understand the real depth of pain it can cause.

Obsession by Lennard J Davis - review

(I'd apologize for being snotty, but I'm just a bit out of sorts this morning...)

Ok, now

what do I believe?

The Total Perspective Vortex

"Studies into clinical depression have yielded similar findings, leading to the development of an intriguing, but still controversial, concept known as depressive realism. This theory puts forward the notion that depressed individuals actually have more realistic perceptions of their own image, importance, and abilities than the average person. While it’s still generally accepted that depressed people can be negatively biased in their interpretation of events and information, depressive realism suggests that they are often merely responding rationally to realities that the average person cheerfully denies. "

I knew that.

I'll try to continue on blithely misleading myself... (yeah, right! Sure.)