Amygda7a - Latest Comments

Re: Questions

Nathanael Eagle — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:09:58 -0000

Re: Predoctoral Clinical Psychology Internships

billcaperton — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 10:37:12 -0000

So....did you match?

Re: 2010 Year in Review

Therapy online — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 05:32:36 -0000

This is great! All your post are here and reviewed, thanks appreciate it a lot!

Re: 2010 Year in Review

Nathanael Eagle — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 11:32:51 -0000

A basic knife skills workshop! That's the best idea ever.

Re: 2010 Year in Review

CommuniTeach — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 21:05:14 -0000

Aw, CommuniTeach made it onto your year in review. That makes me so happy! Hope to see you at another event soon :-)

Re: 2010 Year in Review

amygda7a — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 08:59:50 -0000

Whoa. I started going further back and it was pretty frightening. It actually made years contract instead of expand-- a surprisingly unpleasant feeling of not being very old, a sense of insubstantiality. Basically, my current life begins around January 2005. The rest is raw, hard to revisit, unanalyzed in the psychoanalytic sense.

Re: Pascalian psychology

method — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 13:20:02 -0000

"'Know thyself' does not mean 'Observe thyself.' 'Observe thyself' is what the Serpent says. It means: 'Make yourself master of your actions.' But you are so already, you are the master of your actions. So that saying means: 'Misjudge yourself! Destroy yourself!' which is something evil -- and only if one bends down very far indeed does one also hear the good in it, which is: 'In order to make of yourself what your are.'" -- Kafka

Re: Look what I found

hb — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 20:57:17 -0000

I liked this essay. It was genuinely telling the story of some thoughts.

Re: Pascalian psychology

hb — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 08:56:42 -0000

Ah, Pascal. He would have been helpful: "Hey, asshole on the couch. Self-knowledge is impossible!"

Re: Reading Habits.

Amy — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:20:55 -0000

Look: http://wordle.net/gallery/wrdl...

Re: Observations from Psychotherapy on How Using Social Software Influences How We Structure Our Worlds

Jenn B — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:15:50 -0000

Hi Amy! I'm a Duquesne alum who's also interested in online identity/relationships. (It was my dissertation topic in fact - ugh, dissertations)! Anyway, two things: about the friend whose facebook experience seemed to lead, rather than follow his offline experience, you might enjoy Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulation - Leswin recommended it to me when I was writing the diss, and I still think about his idea of the hyperreal all the time! Second, I would love to pick your brain about social networking from the therapist's perspective! Give me an email if you like! I really enjoyed reading your post here - keep it up!

Re: On Goal-Setting

Self-improvement Advice — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:05:37 -0000

This is a way of planning listing you goals in a hierarchical method. Better to starts with the simple goals that you want to achieve and under each goals are the plans on how you make the goal complete. You need also to trackback your listing whether you have achieved something or not.

-Jan

Re: Reading Habits.

Amy — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 19:35:46 -0000

I just spent a semester on Derrida, and I must say, ultimate contextlessness sounds a lot like deconstruction.

Re: On Two Experiences of Looking

Amy — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 00:51:15 -0000

"Put in parentheses" is a reference to Husserl's phenomenological reduction. It is the process by which one sets aside one's "natural attitude," the habitual way of seeing, in order to allow other modes of seeing. Husserl describes it as Cartesian doubt without actually doubting-- everything is put into a doubtful mode, but rather than demolished, it is simply set aside (bracketed) as one of any number of possibilities.

Re: First entry.

Amy — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 23:55:46 -0000

One of those two.

Re: First entry.

method — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 12:07:55 -0000

No, the Laughing Man from Ghost in the Shell: SAC. And maybe this Caulfield guy too.

Re: First entry.

Robbie Pollack — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 19:06:16 -0000

Holden Caulfield?

Re: Social Software.

Amy — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 23:33:41 -0000

I read an article on this topic recently, and now I'm convinced the argument could be summarized as "Self-Help vs. Freud."