If God, or the eternal order, was revealed to Dostoievski in seizures, why should not other organic conditions serve as ‘portals’ to the beyond or the unknown?
Humans are storytelling creatures preeminently. We organize the world as a set of tales. How, then, can a person make any sense of his confusing environment if he cannot comprehend stories or surmise...
For there is often a struggle, and sometimes, even more interestingly, a collusion between the powers of pathology and creation.
Experientia docet,
Cualquier enfermedad introduce una duplicidad en la vida: un ello, con sus propias necesidades, exigencias y limitaciones.
But who was more tragic, or who was more damned—the man who knew it, or the man who did not?
يحتاج الإنسان إلى قصة داخلية مستمرة للحفاظ على نفسه وهويته *
مع كل خطوة، وكل تقدُّم، تتّسع آفاق المرء، ويخطو خارج عالمٍ منكمش؛ عالم لم يدرك أنه كان منكمشاً إلى هذا الحدّ. لقد وجدت هذا في كل حقل، فسيولوجياً ووجودياً.
الطبيبُ والمريضُ نظيران , يتّعلمُ كل منهما من الآخر و يساعده ويتوصلان معآ إلى معارف جديدة وعلاج *
There is no necessary dilution of reality in representation; quite the opposite, if the representation has power. Reality is conferred, re-conferred, by every original representation.
The enhancement of evoked potentials spread forward into the left temporal lobe, which is normally regarded as purely auditory in function. This is a very remarkable and, one suspects, fundamental fin...
Entered my life and have been with me, for better or worse, ever since. A carefree life became a careful one, to some extent. I felt this was the end of youth and that middle age was now upon me.
With others, of whom there were no actual visual memories, there were, at one point, incontinent visual projections (perhaps analogous to Wright’s auditory phantasms and the phantom limbs of amputees:...
Whichever method is utilised—violent physical, visceral, or emotional activity—the common factor is arousal. The patient is, as it were, awoken from his migraine as if from sleep. We shall further hav...
Where was I? What had been done? I replied that I was in the recovery room and that he had detached the lateral rectus muscle of the right eye and attached the plaque containing radioiodine (I-125, to...
What an odd thing it is to see an entire species -- billions of people -- playing with, listening to meaningless tonal patterns, occupied and preoccupied for much of their time by what they call 'musi...
WHILE MUSIC alone can unlock people with parkinsonism, and movement or exercise of any kind is also beneficial, an ideal combination of music and movement is provided by dance (and dancing with a part...
The language of feeling, of the concrete, of image and symbol, formed a world she loved and, to a remarkable extent, could enter.
The final therapy, as Freud said, is work and love.
The aspects of things that are most important to us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity, Wittgenstein says. Thus it may take an outside view to show the native users of a language t...