[HN Gopher] How T.S. Eliot's therapeutic practice produced The W... ___________________________________________________________________ How T.S. Eliot's therapeutic practice produced The Waste Land Author : notagain Score : 46 points Date : 2022-11-12 06:47 UTC (16 hours ago) (HTM) web link (lithub.com) (TXT) w3m dump (lithub.com) | zackmorris wrote: | For what it's worth, silencing my inner monologue was what | finally helped me overcome depressive and anxious thoughts. My | negative self-talk had gotten so out of control due to my ego | that I came to expect failure. I think that's why meditation is | so effective for shifting into a positive reality. | | Also I tried kava yesterday at a local kava bar and discovered | that one of its psychoactive effects is that it silences the | inner monologue. I found myself observing the world with | childlike wonder, full of gratitude for life. It's popular in the | Pacific islands and can work as a substitute for alcohol. | keybored wrote: | It was worth something for me. | | The discursive mind is more trouble than it is worth 90% of the | time. | nyc111 wrote: | What kind of meditation did you try? | robin_reala wrote: | If you're interested in reading _The Waste Land_ , Standard | Ebooks has a PD collection of his poetry,[1] and the poem can be | read online at https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/t-s- | eliot/poetry/text/poet... . | | [1] https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/t-s-eliot/poetry | pge wrote: | There is also a version published by his estate that shows all | his rough drafts and edits. Fascinating to see his creative | process at work. | labrador wrote: | _" An insufficiency of control" was exactly the problem that | Vittoz' therapy was designed to correct. Under Vittoz therapeutic | system, Eliot would have been reassured that his brain was | healthy, but that his "brain control" needed training. He would | have learned, in other words, that his problem was functional | rather than structural and could be fixed. He was neither insane | nor hysterical - he merely had neurasthenia [an ill-defined | medical condition characterized by lassitude, fatigue, headache, | and irritability, associated chiefly with emotional disturbance. | - Oxford], an illness that Vittoz promised to cure._ | | The Expert Hand and the Obedient Heart: Dr. Vittoz, T.S. Eliot, | and the Therapeutic Possibilities of The WasteLand | | http://mkgold.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/mkgold-jml.pdf | | I went through a course in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for | anxiety and depression. I call what happened in that course | "reestablishing executive function" or taking charge of my | thoughts and feelings by getting some distance from them and | examining them to see if they are based on something real. | Don't believe everything you think - saying in | Alcoholics Anonymous Just 'cause you feel it | Doesn't mean it's there There's always a siren | Singing you to shipwreck - Radiohead, There There | | Doing this is also consistent with Buddhist thought and the | practice of meditation. We are not our thoughts or feelings. | Quiet them and the still surface will reveal the deeper waters ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-11-12 23:00 UTC)