Archive for February, 2007
Another Maslow Quote
“The brain-injured person has an exaggerated need for certainty, safety, definiteness, and order.” Abraham Maslow, Motivation and Personality from memory, at this point.
A Slippery Flat
Today is the end of a week of ice-storm and its aftermath, that was supposed to end the day after it began, with a torrent of rain. Instead there were five days of intermitten (and intermittent) snow and sleet that layered the roads and sidewalks with treachery. Because the storm would pass us by, I […]
A Disabled Mind
Most of us, readers of this book, will only know what it is to have a disabled mind from the outside looking in. As a counseling/clinical psychologist, I knew disabled minds from interviewing their possessors, and from a neurology textbook, and from the observations that informed Abraham Maslow, especially in his Motivation and Personality. I […]
Thrown
This word, “thrown,” seems to me right now to express something I want to use in/as the title.
Most of all, thrown as in “radical thrownness,” from existential philosophy. The idea that we exist in a state of radical thrownness, not having chosen our specific time or circumstances of existence, and that we make our own […]