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Freudian and Kleinian Visions

Psychoanalytic Thinking with Dr Don Carveth

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You're Not Operating in the Paranoid, Scisoid Position

In order to feel that, you have to have transcended your narcisism to quite a significant degree. You don't walk around feeling entirely good about yourself because you're bearing guilt. And thereis the willingness to acknowledge that you are far from a perfect specimen and you're living in a world where there is no perfection. That's sanity. But anyway, i think yousee, if i'm interviewing someone for the institutei'm impressed if they have a lot of ego strength... but what you want in a psychoanalyst is a person with a conscience, with a heart, not just a good mind.

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