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“Gem of all joy, jasper of jocundity.”

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William Dunbar (1459-1520) was a prominent Scottish poet during the Renaissance. His works, primarily in the form of rhymed poetry and narrative poems, had a profound impact on the development of Scottish literature. more

“The primitive thinking of the supernaturally inclined amounts to what his psychiatric colleagues call a problem, or an idea, of reference. An excess of the subjective, the ordering of the world in line with your needs, an inability to contemplate your own unimportance. In Henry's view such reasoning belongs on a spectrum at whose far end, rearing like an abandoned temple, lies psychosis.”

Thinking World Needs Ideas Ends Problem Lying Lines Views Amount Reasoning Temples Excess Abandoned Contemplating Primitive Colleagues Inability Subjective Spectrum Psychosis Psychiatric

Book:Saturday

Source: Saturday

“He seems to me to be headed for his ideal fate, which is compulsive psychosis dashed with a jigger of psychopathic irresponsibility and violence”

Seems Fate Violence Ideals Psychosis Irresponsibility Psychopathic

Book:The Portable Jack Kerouac

Source: The Portable Jack Kerouac

“The sufferings of neurosis and psychosis are for us a schooling in the passions of the soul, just as the beam of the psychoanalytic scales, when we calculate the tilt of its threat to entire communities, provides us with an indication of the deadening of the passions in society.”

Soul Suffering Passion Community Threat Scales Indication Schooling Beam Neurosis Psychosis Tilt Psychoanalytic

Book:Écrits: a selection

Source: Écrits: a selection

“We are repeatedly left, in other words, with no further focus than ourselves, a source from which self-pity naturally flows. Each time this happens I am struck again by the permanent impassibility of the divide. Some people who have lost a husband or a wife report feeling that person's presence, receiving that person's advice. Some report actual sightings, what Freud described in "Mourning and Melancholia" as "a clinging to the object through the medium of a hallucinatory wishful psychosis." Others describe not a visible apparition but just a "very strongly felt presence."”

“When the depressive psychosis has become manifest, its cardinal feature seems to be a mental inhibition which renders a rapport between the patient and the external world more difficult.”

World Seems Difficult Patient Features Manifest Cardinals Inhibitions Psychosis Rapport Depressive

Book:Selected Papers, with an Introductory Memoir by Ernest Jones

Source: Selected Papers, with an Introductory Memoir by Ernest Jones

“Once a restless or frayed mood has turned to anger, or violence, or psychosis, Richard, like most, finds it very difficult to see it as illness, rather than being willful, angry, irrational or simply tiresome.”

Difficult Violence Angry Illness Mood Irrational Restless Psychosis Tiresome

Book:An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

Source: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

“Says Bargh: "We all hold dear idea that we´re the captain of our own sould, and we´re in charge, and it´s a very scary feeling when we are not. In fact, that´s what psychosis is - the feeling of detachment from reality and that you are not in control, and that´s a very frightening feeling for anyone."”

Ideas Facts Feelings Reality Dear Scary Frightening Captains Detachment Psychosis

Author:Leonard Mlodinow

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