If a child hurts self, what to do at once and later?” It all depends on what you mean by “at once.” But if you mean really at once, that’s shut up. Child hurts himself, at once you shut up. Now, try not to say, “Shush, shush, shush” and “Stop it” and “Keep quiet” to […]
mimicry
Lecture: Obnosis
Children are not necessarily in good condition, by the way. Don’t ever fall for this psychological nonsense that a child is a Clear and gets aberrated afterwards. A very careful survey of this demonstrates that a child is probably stark staring mad right after the Assumption1, and gradually gets well. By the time he’s seven, […]
Lecture: Learning Processes: No-game condition
But let’s take up this, now, just on a very blunt, forward basis. You’re making this person learn something. All right. To the degree that you run Mimicry, it has some slight therapy. You say, “One-two-three,” he says, “One-two-three.” Now, that means that you have made him make his voice say “One-two-three.” See? You have […]
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 […]
Lecture: Methods of Processing
One of the earliest uses of it was by a fellow by the name of Homer Lane. Lane went into an insane asylum in England and he said to the individuals involved in the management of this insane asylum, “I want to see your toughest case.” He was not a psychiatrist (most developments in the […]