March 2009
10 posts
Freud's Couch
When the patient reclines on a couch with the analyst out of view, the patient tends to remember more, experience more resistance and transference, and be able to reorganize thoughts after the development of insight – through the interpretive work of the analyst.
The use of the couch for the treatment of mental disorders has a history that long antedates Freud’s initial employment of it....
Mark Andrews' De Classifieds photo series - Cool... →
The Dinner Party: Fiction: The New Yorker →
On occasion, the two women went to lunch and she came home offended by some pettiness. And he would say, “Why do this to yourself?” He wanted to keep her from being hurt. He also wanted his wife and her friend to drift apart so that he never had to sit through another dinner party with the friend and her husband. But after a few months the rift would inevitably heal and the friendship return to...
In a previous life...
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