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Reads tagged with “psychology”

The Great Blue Heron, Signs vs. Omens, and Our Search for Meaning
The Great Blue Heron, Signs vs. Omens, and Our Search for Meaning

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How to Wait Better: The Psychology of Missing and Withstanding Absence
How to Wait Better: The Psychology of Missing and Withstanding Absence

On “the capacity to bear frustration without turning against one’s needy self, or against the person one needs.”

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Winnicott on the Qualities of a Healthy Mind and a Healthy Relationship
Winnicott on the Qualities of a Healthy Mind and a Healthy Relationship

“A sign of health in the mind is the ability of one individual to enter imaginatively and yet accurately into the thoughts and feelings and hopes and fears of another person; also to allow the other person to do the same to us.”

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How to See More Clearly and Love More Purely: Iris Murdoch on the Angst of Not Knowing Ourselves and Each Other
How to See More Clearly and Love More Purely: Iris Murdoch on the Angst of Not Knowing Ourselves and Each Other

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An Almanac of Birds: Divinations for Uncertain Days
An Almanac of Birds: Divinations for Uncertain Days

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The Paradox of Joy, with a Nick Cave Song and a Lisel Mueller Poem
The Paradox of Joy, with a Nick Cave Song and a Lisel Mueller Poem

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Honing Life on the Edges of the Possible: Geologist Turned Psychoanalyst Ruth Allen on Boundaries and Limits as Frontiers of Transformation and Growth
Honing Life on the Edges of the Possible: Geologist Turned Psychoanalyst Ruth Allen on Boundaries and Limits as Frontiers of Transformation and Growth

“At almost every conceivable level of our imagining, it is impossible to create a change without a discontinuity, without a moment of not knowing who we are, or what we are going to become. Rupture precedes revolution.”

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Turning to Stone: A Geologist’s Love Letter to the Wisdom of Rocks
Turning to Stone: A Geologist’s Love Letter to the Wisdom of Rocks

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Trauma, Growth, and How to Be Twice as Alive: Tove Jansson on the Worm and the Art of Self-Renewal
Trauma, Growth, and How to Be Twice as Alive: Tove Jansson on the Worm and the Art of Self-Renewal

“Nothing is easy when you might come apart in the middle at any moment.”

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Beyond Either/Or: Kierkegaard on the Passion for Possibility and the Key to Resetting Relationships
Beyond Either/Or: Kierkegaard on the Passion for Possibility and the Key to Resetting Relationships

“Were I to wish for anything I would not wish for wealth and power, but for the passion of the possible, that eye which everywhere, ever young, ever burning, sees possibility.”

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