I’m always amazed by how people who have never contributed in any way to a profession can feel entitled to claim other peoples’ work in this profession is right or wrong. What I mean is, like Jung, Adler, and Janet, Freud was a rare bird. He was a full-blown personality theorist AND at the same…
To begin with, the phrase, “black and white thinking,” is pejorative. As used here, it implies, right from the start, that people on the spectrum are broken rather than different. This is similar to the way people in the 1950’s called African Americans, “darkies.” When called on doing this, most people would say they intended…
To begin with, I have Asperger’s. I am also a therapist for close to thirty years. For most of these years, I’ve sat with people with Asperger’s every day. In each case, when I first meet them, I tell the person the same thing; that despite what anyone has told you, you are not broken….
Thanks to the OP for posing such a thought provoking and important question which ironically, according to the “great me,” requires a breakthrough to understand. It certainly did in me. In fact, I’m not sure I can find the words to adequately answer this question. What I can say though is that it begins with…
Arguably, Ashwin, understanding this question should be in the top five concepts for all those practicing in the medical / psychological professions. Being in the latter, my answer will focus on DSM-V diagnoses. Setting aside the myriad problems in the DSM’s design, the key to diagnosing lies in a single word. “Differential.” Here, the process…
Good Morning, George. Geez. What a tough question! Know I’ve thought about it for a quite a few days now. Why? Because I recently tried to put into words my thirty-plus years of experience on this subject. But even after writing 752 pages, I still found there was much I’d forgotten to address. More discomforting,…
George, let me start by saying this; as usual, you’ve asked me an interesting question. And while my immediate motive for telling you this should be apparent, it’s likely, my underlying motive will not be. My underlying motive? Your question pleasantly surprised me. I’d never considered this question and the more I thought about it,…
To begin with, I realize, I haven’t answered a question here in quite a long time. I am currently more deeply immersed in meaningful things than at any other time in my life. Perhaps this is why I so rarely read Quora questions that surprise me with the depth they contain. This question feels beyond…
I copied the following questions and comments from an email Erik sent after this month’s seminar group. Hopefully before the new year, I’ll figure out how to let all of you post directly to the forums. For now though, here are Erik’s questions: Hi Everyone, I wanted to send this email out because I had…