Rage is helpless anger. If anger finds a productive outlet, it can achieve great things (See Martin Luther King, Mahatma Gandhi, et al.) King and Gandhi believed their words could be effective agents for change. There was a receptive audience somewhere – white Northerners, the British public – who would listen, and perhaps embrace a [...]
Archive for January 24th, 2010
It’s all the rage
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Don’t fall in love like a kid – do it like an adult
Posted in Current Events, Intriguing Patients, Thoughts and Musings, tagged adult, Alice B. Toklas, attraction, child, Gertrude Stein, John Lennon, Josephine, love, monogamy, Napoleon, partnership, religion, respect, romantic relationship, trust, Yoko Ono on January 24, 2010 | 3 Comments »
A patient told me she couldn’t get over a guy she’d been seeing. He was no good for her. He didn’t even seem to want to go out with her. But she couldn’t let go. “But I love him,” she explained. Well, in a manner of speaking. She was in love with him like a [...]