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I spent the past three nights eating out on my textbook. I am reading it on the bus, on the train, lunch, dinner and short of doing it on the toilet bowl. Reason? I had a bloody assignment to finish just three hours ago. All 160 MCQs that I should have gotten my shrinking ass to do since I got the textbook two months ago. Bad student heh. :)
While it is a textbook, I actually enjoyed reading it and thinking while I am internalising the theories. Of course, reading Psychoanalytic, Gestalt, People Centered Therapy and Behaviour Therapy in all that three days is making me a little imbalance. And I wish the theorists kept their writing simpler. I was revisiting some of the things I went through myself over the past 30 yrs and realised some of the things are actually close to heart. I will probably redo the reading again so that I can understand them better. The last time, I read so much was I was doing my History Paper, my previous two degrees were more demanding on design and drawing.
There is however something that caught my full attention:
... Kohut (1984) maintains that people are their healthiest and best when they can feel both independence and attachment, taking joy in themselves and also being able to idealise others. Mature adult adults feel a basic security grounded in a sense of freedom, self-sufficiency, and self-esteem; they are not compulsively dependents on others but also do not have to fear closeness.
My glass is 75% full again.
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