Saturday, February 4, 2017

24 x 2

2/4 12:06 Noon. Working on Jon Mills (2005, 2011). A lengthy one, and a short one. How can a lengthy one avoid being imposing? Good lesson. When you have >5 points to say, split them in 2 essays. When you have <1 point to say, write an authoritative textbook.

2/4 12:33 Noon. Large Group Psychology (Vamik Volkan) (well, LARGE, very very LARGE) vs. Group self (Heinz Kohut) (see Walter Stone, 2009, Chap 2, of course, Stone is not talking about "LARGE" group here).

2/4 2:50 PM. Jay Greenberg (2013), interesting.

2/4 8:59 PM. Donna Orange (2010) Jessica Benjamin (2010). Debate about mutual recognition.


My conclusion:

Men are not equal, as the winners like to claim to be.
Intersubjectivity cannot be taken for granted. It is an end result of long hard-won achievement, in any relationship.
Hegel, apparently, is not Winnicott.
Philosophical acrobatics, obviously, is not therapy.
Intersubjectivity between two strong and capable adults, is not the same, as the parent-child or therapist-patient dyad.
The relationals are more adult-like, less parent-like, less masochistic, than the self psychologists.
The relationals need to be screwed up more, to see the infantile needs of their patients.
The self psychologists need to learn to let go, and not to infantilize their patients, at least not longer than necessary.
They both need to learn to more keenly sense the developmental stage and its accompaning needs in their patients, and the intersubjective task to facilitate the maturational process accordingly. (a la Winnicott’sThe Maturational Processes and the Facilitating Environment”)



2/5 5:02 AM. 臘月逐漸親近人  this explains mutual recognition, doesn't it? 

2/5 6:34 AM. Henry Schwartz (2012) Intersubjectivity and Dialecticism. Apparently he does not consider himself a hardcore relational, and is groping his way forward, via dialecticism. 

2/5 8:03 AM. Sabert Basescu: Selected Papers on Human Nature and Psychoanalysis (Relational Perspectives Book Series), ed. by George GoldsteinHelen GoldenRoutledge, 2011 (kindle 2012) 
  
    (book review by Paul Gordon)   https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5viXpvvYMYEQlNiR01MUFVBWHc/view?usp=sharing

2/5 8:11 PM. Jack Reacher used to say, "Shit happens, get over it." But we sadly know, sometimes we won't be able to get over it. That was what happened to Sabe in May, 2006, in central park, NY. 

2/6 3:03 AM. mutual vulnerability, how to define it? 6/29 SUD ---> Co-morbidities of SUD: physical, psychiatric, pregnancy, adolescent

2/7 7:44 AM. FIN.