Traveling east in 1948, Ron spent three months helping deeply disturbed inmates in a Savannah, Georgia mental hospital. “I worked with some of these,” he recalled, “interviewing and helping out as what they call a lay practitioner, which means a volunteer. This gave me some insight into the social problems of insanity and gave me […]
psychotic cases
Lecture: Case Analysis – Rock Hunting (continued 1)
One time I was so amazed in session I could have fainted with humiliation, a long time ago. Poor old George Wichelow was running me on subjective don’t-know, which is the lousiest process there is; he knew it was a lousy process. I was just about to give a lecture, he didn’t have any business […]
Lecture: One-way Flows in Processing: Question and Answer Period (1)
One – a very amusing thing was the case of a person who was given a – a psycho – a Section Eight, something like that, out of the Army. He was a – had originally, because the Army was so antipathetic – he’s a medical doctor – the Army was so antipathetic toward him […]
Lecture: Havingness
I would say, offhand, that it would be impossible to do very much for a psychotic without getting him to handle solid objects. I real – just impossible. I mean, we might read a lot of fancy things, we might think of a lot of fancy things, and so forth, but unless we actually did […]
Lecture: Two Way Communication
Now, ole’ Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, the great Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, has a process which is intensely successful. If she knew where to go from there, she would be a great psychiatrist. She is the greatest in the United States and the world, almost, today, but that doesn’t make her a very great psychiatrist. Anyway, Frieda Fromm-Reichmann will […]
Lecture: Thinking Processes
This whole idea of “don’t have to work” is the same as “don’t push away the MEST vectors which are coming in from 360 degrees.” And “don’t have to work” means to be satisfied to let the patterns which MEST makes exist on every hand untroubled and undisturbed. In view of the fact these are […]