على كولة Slavoj Zizek:
Happiness for me is a very conformist category

Freud would be appalled were he to rise from the dead and discover that his intellectual baby has grown into a callow adolescent interested only in his own feelings. Perhaps that adolescent: can still become an adult—but only if it rejects its own currently accepted theories of mental health.

- House of cards: psychology and psychotherapy built on myth

بهذا الكتاب، المؤلِف (اللي هو أصلًا سايكولوجست ورئيس سابق لل APA) نزل عالسايكولوجي وسوالف الصحة النفسية اكس مربع and he did a good job actually

APA: American Psychology Association

Egoism is frail. The ego, after all, is subject to harm from forces beyond its control, and it faces an ultimate destiny of disintegration and death. Throughout history people have answered "No" to the question.“is this all there is?” when regarding their own ego’s frailty. Perhaps that is all there is, but the acceptance of this conclusion as scientific is unjustified, and it may be creating great harm in our culture. Professional psychology’s harping on the self—and in particular on how the self feels about the self—as the focus of all desirable or undesirable behavior can only exacerbate that harm.

- House of cards: psychology and psychotherapy built on myth

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In the 1960s and 1970s a psychologist named Paul Bindrim advocated for this kind of therapy, in which clients would sit naked and talk about their feelings

ماعرف بشنو جان ديفكر لما اقترح هالنوع من الثيرابي، بس عمومًا بوقتها جانت سوالف الهيبيز وال make love, not war طاشة، ولما انتهت هالموجة "الثقافية"، إنتهت وياها سالفة الـ nude psychotherapy

ها صدك، اللي بالصور جانوا يسموه eye-gazing therapy أو هيج شي. تصفن بعيون اللي مقابيلك، وثنينكم مصاليخ، حتى تنحل مشاكلكم النفسية بطريقةٍ ما
"It's totally platonic," the therapist said.

يا شيطانَ الفن! لقد منحتُك كل شيء.
كلُّ قطرةٍ من قطرات دمي هي لك.
وكلُّ خلجةٍ من خلجاتِ نفسي هي لك.
فإذا ظفرتُ بساعةٍ من ساعات الهناء فهي لك.
وإنْ نمتُ فأنتَ ملِكٌ على عرش أحلامي.
وإنْ أفَقتُ فأنتَ المالِك لزمام أيامي.

شبحُك لا يَذهب عني في أيِّ زمانٍ ولا أيِّ مكان.
إنّك لا تتركني إلا وقد صرعني المرض.
ولم يَبقَ في رأسي الكَليل ولا جسمي النحيل شيءٌ تأخذُه.
فإذا فَتحتُ بعدئذٍ عيني قليلًا وبَدَرَت بادرةُ يقظةٍ فهي أيضًا لك.
يا شيطان الفن! لقد أخذتَ مني كلَّ شيء.
فماذا أعطيتَني أنت؟!

- أعطيتُكَ لذّة «الخَلق» .. !
تلكَ اللذةُ التي لا يعرفها غيرُ إله!

- توفيق الحكيم

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Modern psychology has had a myopic historical vision, assuming that the psychological endeavor began in Europe and America within the last century or so. We have lost sight of the deeper roots of our discipline in philosophy, and, in turn, of philosophy in religion. Few psychologists, for example, remember that William James, one of the fathers of modern psychology, was a member of the philosophy department at Harvard until he founded the psychology department there near the turn of the century.

- Daniel Goleman