Monthly Archives: August 2021

The whole world is sick…and you can’t put this right by having a good therapeutic dialogue or finding deeper meanings. It’s not about meaning anymore; it’s about survival. – James Hillman I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting … Continue reading →

If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; If you talk to the dead, you are a schizophrenic. – Thomas Szasz I talk always … Continue reading →

Harmless violence where no one gets hurt breeds innocence…the innocent American is the violent American. – James Hillman In a mad world, only the mad are sane. – Akira Kurosawa So many of our children, and all depressed people, carry the … Continue reading →

If therapy imagines its task to be that of helping people cope (and not protest), to adapt (and not rebel), to normalize their oddity, and to accept themselves “and work within your situation; make it work for you” (rather than … Continue reading →

The ideal of growth makes us feel stunted; the ideal family makes us feel crazy…So long as the statistics of normalizing developmental psychology determine the standards against which the extraordinary complexities of a life are judged, deviations become deviants. – … Continue reading →

Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. – C.S. Lewis Especially in times of great change, society manipulates definitions of sanity when unstable … Continue reading →