The therapist was a tiny woman with dark, closely cropped hair, magnetic eyes and a ready, inviting smile. Her name was Insoo Kim Berg. She was born in Korea, came to the U.S. in 1957 to study and stayed.
The person closest to her was her husband, a jazz-musician-turned-psychotherapist named Steve de Shazer. She persuaded [...]
No one remembered exactly when it happened, or how. This in itself was a bit strange since there were almost surely several witnesses in that psychological therapy practice office in Milwaukee that day—whichever day it was—in the 1980s. And these were not just ordinary lookers-on. They were trained observers: licensed mental health professionals. They were [...]
Posted on July 15, 2012, 3:57 pm, by admin, under
Physiology.
Say what?
Our understanding of reality is produced internally. That is, it is subjective. Why? In no small part, because for so much that goes on around us, we have an inadequate “biophysical” means (and sometimes, no means at all) for noticing, absorbing and processing it. That allows magicians to fool around with our understanding of [...]
