Alain De Botton (Replay): Life Is Not Meant To Be Perfect
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Is Self Help Turning Into Self Care?
Many of us who wind up in the more troubled areas of the psyche weren't soothed properly. So there's a general soothing problem. What is soothing really? It's putting a non catastrophic interpretation on a problem. And i think some of what we're trying to do the si rhas haps sounds grander than it should, but it isn't. We try and sound like the psychoanalyst donald winnicott. He was the pioneer of child peteatrics in britain in the 50 60 seventies. But if that goes well, that really sets you up for life. If it doesn't, you just haven't had it modelled for you.
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