castalia1981.bsky.social
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... having cultivated your signature strength of honesty, when you tell your friend how fat she looks in that dress. But the effect of your honesty on her may be disastrous" (p. 392)
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Stefan Zweig "Chess" 👍👍👍
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... When she puts on her dress, which you have never seen before, you think it is extremely unflattering. 'How do I look?' she says. What do you say? Do you tell her she looks great, or do you tell the truth?" (Schwartz & Sharpe, 2006, p. 378)
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... that occur on that very personal terrain of the lifeworld, within the context of the sociocultural Background, where the cognition is hot and suffused with emotion, where choices have significant practical consequences, where fact and value are joined" (Woolfolk, p. 126)
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... moral judgments that they cannot be addressed in any practical endeavor without also encompassing the values connected with them" (Woolfolk, 1998, p. 116)
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... disinterested professional practice. Yet any relatively rudimentary understanding of the topography of emotion convinces us that values and emotions are inseparable. Emotions fundamentally are evaluative responses. Certain emotions are so inextricably intertwined with... 👇
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... Its ultimate failure to produce a completely objective form of treatment resulted not from the lack of zealous effort but from the inability of any psychotechnology to divest itself entirely of prescriptive elements" (Woolfolk, 1998, p. 42)
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... I asked him if I had ruined things when I purchased new shoes. Again he answered quickly, making it clear that these were well-formed assumptions of his: 'No, by the time you got new shoes, I already knew we were alike.'" (Swenson, 2016, p. 91)
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... 'Remember that shoe you used to wear, the one that had the hole in the bottom? That’s what helped me the most.' Stunned and puzzled, I asked why that had helped him. He answered, 'I knew you and I were together.' ... 👇
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... I had my own ideas of how he was helped by the consistency of our relationship, and some of the growing understanding of his inner world due to interpretive work. Instead, answering quickly, he said... 👇
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... with him because I was moving to New York ... As we approached the ending, I asked him if he thought he had gotten better. 'Oh, yeah! Charlie, I’m living on the ground now, not in the air!' I asked if he had any ideas of what had helped him... 👇
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... Nothing is harder, yet nothing is more necessary, than to speak of certain things whose existence is neither demonstrable nor probable. The very fact that serious and conscientious men treat them as existing things brings them a step closer to existence and to the possibility of being born"
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P.S. For a much later, but very useful addition see: guilfordjournals.com/doi/10.1521/...
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👆👆👆 ...I was ruminating all the time, the way depressed people do, ruminating, worrying, feeling guilty, feeling bad, being self-critical. All of a sudden I felt, 'Wait a minute. I don’t have to turn this damn soap opera on. This whole thing is meaningless.'"
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👆👆👆 ...It might be her believing that no one loved her, that people hated her, that she just wanted to die. I would say, 'No problem. I can find a treatment for that.'"
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👆👆👆 ... here, too, government planning and direction is the road to success. Anybody can be unhappy, but to make oneself unhappy needs to be learnt, and to this end some experience with a few personal blows of fate simply won't do"
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Well, compare here: www.researchgate.net/publication/... with a "special superior person" schema...
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👆👆👆 ... – a very little increase in tempo and the thing becomes completely impossible" - Iris Murdoch
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