إن العيادة و المختبر و جناح المستشفى مصمّمة جميعاً لكبح و تركيز السلوك ، إن لم يكن لإقصائه كلياً ..
إذا أردنا أن نعرف فلاناً فنحن نسأل : ما قصته - قصته الحقيقية الأعمق ؟ - لأن كل واحد منا هو سيرة وقصة . كل واحد منا هو حكاية فريدة يتم تركيبها باستمرار ودون وعي بواسطتنا ومن خلالنا وفينا من خلال إدرا...
أنا أتجرّأ وأؤكّد... بأننا لا شيء سوى حزمة أو مجموعة من إحساسات مختلفة تتبع بعضها بعضاً بسرعة لا يمكن تصوُّرها، وبتدفّق وحركة دائمَين.
Оказавшись на месте, я обнаружил пациента рядом с кроватью. Он лежал на полу, пристально разглядывая свою ногу. В выражении его лица смешивались гнев, тревога, недоумение и веселое изумление – главным...
Învesmântate în acest sentiment al extazului, arzând de o adânca semnificatie divina si filozofica, viziunile lui Hildegard au contribuit la îndrumarea ei catre o viata închinata sfinteniei si mistici...
The delirious visions when they came to him may have owed something to opium as well as to a high temperature, since opium was then a normal remedy for ague or malaria.
That nothing in biology made sense except in the light of evolution and chance, contingency. He put everything in the context of deep evolutionary time. Steve
Patients with aphasia and left-hemisphere lesions, says they have lost ‘abstract’ and ‘propositional’ thought—and compares them with dogs (or, rather, he compares dogs to patients with aphasia).
Not so long ago, all humans heard voices—generated internally, from the right hemisphere of the brain, but perceived (by the left hemisphere) as if external, and taken as direct communications from th...
Judgment is the most important faculty we have. An animal, or a man, may get on very well without ‘abstract attitude’ but will speedily perish if deprived of judgment. Judgment must be the first facul...
Cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved; I have been given much and I have given something in return; I have read and traveled and...
Being.
Where perception of objects is concerned, Edelman likes to say, the world is not labeled; it does not come already parsed into objects. We must make our perceptions through our own categorizations. Ev...
When traditional figures—devils, witches, or hags—are no longer believed in, new ones—aliens, visitations from a previous life—take their place. Hallucinations,
When I visited Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., (it is the only university in the world for deaf and hearing-impaired students) and talked about the hearing impaired, one of the deaf students...
What they are able to imagine becomes more real to them.
We think of science as discovery, art as invention, but is there a third world of mathematics, which is somehow, mysteriously, both?
Transient states of depersonalisation are appreciably commoner during migraine auras. Freud reminds us that … the ego is first and foremost a body-ego … the mental projection of the surface of the bod...
My note was a strange mixture of facts and observations, carefully noted and itemised, with irrepressible meditations on what such problems might 'mean', in regard to who and what and where this poor...
Lev Vygotsky, the great Russian psychologist, used to speak of thinking in pure meanings. I cannot decide whether this is nonsense or profound truth—it is the sort of reef I end up on when I think abo...