Wynn Schwartz Ph.D Archive
Every idea is someone's idea and every use of an idea is someone's use of the idea. How can a cartoon evoke murdous rage? How can satire justify a religious community's claim of victimhood? Who is so vulnerable to insult …
Our culture tends "to regard the mere energy of impulse as being in every mental and moral way equivalent and even superior to defined intention." Instead we should consider "an idea that once was salient in western culture: the idea …
Maxim 1. A person takes it that things are as they seem unless they have reason enough to think otherwise. Peter Ossorio You can trust a dog with your life...but not your lunch. Stephen HuneckA through-line description is, paradigmatically, the …
Confusions and uncertainty in sexual identity: the good, the bad, and the ugly.A few weeks ago the Boston Study Group thought about confusions and uncertainty in sexual identity and how this plays out in action. The contrast would be people …
I cannot advise my colleagues too urgently to model themselves during psycho-analytic treatment on the surgeon, who puts aside all his feeling, even his human sympathy, and concentrates his mental forces on the single aim of performing the operation as …
Implementation and Significance: Simple Psychotherapeutic InterventionsPromise them anything, but give them behavior potential. Peter OssorioNear the start of my training analysis I realized that my mostly silent analyst, seated behind me, wrote with a scratchy pencil. Evidently, not everything I …
It’s always many reasons.Or probably is. Radicalization provides relief, a map to locate multiple grievances in a person’s world. If you have two reasons, you have more than one. Now add religious indoctrination, a community that supports that identity, but …
1st Annual Peter Ossorio Lecture - Dr. Wynn SchwartzOctober 19, 2015University of Colorado-BoulderEmpathy, Intentional Action, and The Person Concept: An Exercise in Descriptive Psychology“The instigation of the Person Concept was a very practical one. It was the classic problem of …
(a continuation of Empathy, Inclusion, and Moral Dialog or What Gets in the Way of Negotiating Social Justice? )A person values some states of affairs over others and acts accordingly.A person will not choose less behavior potential over more.A person …
Socrates Stop. Now we must tell what there is in this that is faulty and lacks art, must we not?Phaedrus Yes.Socrates It is clear to everyone that we are in accord about some matters of this kind and at variance …
