6 results for (book:sdpc AND heading:introduct AND stemmed:entir)
Valerie
metaphor
grief
hospital
death
Considering Rob’s and my relationship — the challenges, joys, hopes, strains and our own personality characteristics. Maybe the whole thing is — reacting to ourselves individually and to the other person — experiencing our own personal reactions and then reacting to them — then reacting to the other person who experiences the same processes in himself. We … creatively keep altering ourselves and our mates. We can’t be ‘perfect’ at the start because the processes include changing events. There’s bound to be some lopsidedness to our growth, as we form psychological ‘art’ throughout our entire lives — or learn to live … artistically. Each person in such a relationship changes constantly in relationship to himself and the other person, until — hopefully? — by death you’ve used the characteristics of your own personality the best you can. Merged them with your mate’s so that between the two of you, you get a new creative mixture in a kind of psychological multiplication … You try different ways of using your own traits, etc.
Cunningham
Miss
starlings
killing
Rah
[...] The new personality is not entirely focused, and it must make immediate critical adjustments of the strongest nature. [...]
[...] It will finally understand, however, that it will not be dumped aside but taken along as itself, independent as always, to stand beside other independent egos each of whom represents facets of the entire entity …
tree
bark
Malba
Rob
midplane
The entire session ran three hours, and most of it was devoted to the ego and the subconscious and to their relationship to health and illness. [...]
“Do you realize that the entire session contained more psychological insight into me and more hints into my behavior than I’ve ever received in any way whatsoever? [...]