Tuesday, July 3, 2018

limit of the reluctance to pathologize

Bruce Herzog (2018) Kohut’s Reluctance to Pathologize: Replacing Objective Authority With Innovative Compassion, Psychoanalysis, Self and Context, 13:2, 99-118

The limit of the reluctance to pathologize lies in the therapist’s limit of tolerance of human follies, and limit of endurance to sit through the human tragedies. No words. You stand before it. You burst into laughter, and you are awed. You cannot pathologize tragedies, can you? But can you sit it through?