Posted by DSCH on November 7, 2003, at 19:28:14
In reply to Re: Redefine your understanding of self » Eddie Sylvano, posted by Dinah on November 7, 2003, at 10:07:25
> It sounds very interesting Eddie. Thanks for the recommend. As someone with a lot of borderline traits, I sometimes even wonder if there is a self at all, or just a conglomeration of ever-changing bits and pieces.
I wouldn't call it ever-changing so much as somewhat cyclic and dynamic, but yes, there is strong evidence that the human mind is best approached as its own society.
"Society of Mind", by Marvin Minsky
"The Dreams of Reason", by Heinz Pagels
I have yet to read to read the first. The second I have puttered about with here and there and intend to finally read it all together soon. Pagels was a physicist who meet Fritz Perls and found much that he thought was pretty convincing in Gestalt therapy.
I got most aquianted with this personally when I had periods of Paxil withdrawl.
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