Adam Blatner
Words and Images from the Mind of Adam Blatner
February, 2010
Re-Doing Your Philosophy of Life
Everyone generates a meaning system. Most often it is an unconscious set of assumptions that help you make sense out of things. Alfred Adler (a physician who was an earlier associate of Freud but then dropped away because of his own independent ideas) observed that children around the age of five begin to have provisional […]
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Beyond Psychotherapy
As mentioned in the paper (also posted on this website) titled ‘Shrink’ or ‘Expander,’ the field of psychotherapy has emerged and gone through at least two phases: In the first phase, the model of dis-ease and healing involved opening to the powers of the unconscious mind. Such practitioners imagined themselves as expanding the options available to people […]
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“Shrink” Or “Expander”: Re-Evaluating The Psychotherapist’s Role
This is the first of two related papers I’m posting on this website. I welcome your feedback. (With your feedback, I can always change my wording or insert your comments.) This paper notes how psychotherapists came to be called “shrinks;” how this term in some ways is a little bit true; and how in some […]
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The Power of Subjective Attitudes
Responding to a NY Times article about science and discovery in December, 2009, the article speaks about how our consciousness continues to grow as we discover new horizons in astronomy, sub-atomic physics, and so forth. This brings up an interesting epistemological issue! (Epistemology is that branch of philosophy that asks, “How do we know what […]
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Entitlements: An Invitation to “Get Real”
America is going through an interesting developmental phase, akin to the early teen years. The era of the cost of living being cheap and easy is drawing to a close, because (1) natural resources are less plentiful and cheap; (2) the expectations of the people have gone up significantly; (3) services (especially health) are more […]
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