The primal language game of this man's personal history was the communication system in his early family, which designated his existence—and those of his doomed brothers—as playthings, almost like chess pieces belonging to the father's controlling agendas and properties.
like? I don’t know individual circumstances by looking at apartment buildings, homes away from the city or relocating to somewhere more suitable for a family of 5.
So with contributions to social and political matters in mind, let’s have a big tent and add in things like humanistic psychology, body psychotherapy, transpersonal psychotherapy, group and family therapy.
If a rape victim, like Alice Sebold (1999), was born into a family in which words were the only means of contact available, she is more likely to tell her story in words.
She has needed always to care for others as well as for her own survival, and in addition, her family history and northern European culture have not permitted her to express need for anything from anyone from the day she was born. Like
I would only add that to these individual meditative disciplines, we also may need to add social and community support for our personal and clinical lives, to be found in various ways: arts, sports, family life, and especially connections with colleagues who affirm our shared values. Reading a book like
Our theories become like family to us. To throw our cherished convictions away on pragmatic grounds (because they aren’t working out)—without the slightest tenderness—to abandon them, do we hear this language?