Michele Pasin / Quotes

Flying blind at the slum clinic

‘The problem is that I’m flying blind, if you know what I mean. I don’t know enough to cope with all the problems people come to me with. When I come across illnesses that I can’t identify, or what I think are probably illnesses, I send them to the diagnostic clinic at St. George Hospital. I don’t know what else to do with them. But a lot of the time they come back to me without having seen anyone—no doctors, no nurses, no-one.’

Saved 5 November 2015

#illness

A childhood illness as root trauma

The CD played out, so it must have been the best part of an hour—then abruptly several disparate pieces of information jigsawed themselves together. Suddenly…

The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray) #childhood #illness #unconscious #memory #emotions

Eliade's shamans

The next book I set about reading was Mircea Eliade’s Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy, which proved to be an inspired choice. Mircea Eliade’s…

The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray) #shamanism #religion #illness #culture

Frankl's three central values

Viktor Frankl suggests that there are three central values in life—the experiential, or that which happens to us; the creative, or that which we bring into…

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen R. Covey) #values #attitudes #illness