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April 20, 2009 by kevinstilley

Psychiatry – Select Quotes

I have been accused by several friends and acquaintances of being anti-intellectual (I can’t win), and also of being “against psychiatrists.” I don’t really think I am. That would be as silly as being “against dentists” or “against barbers.” I do think that psychiatry is still a very young science, not unlike surgery when the surgeons were barbers. If you absolutely had to have a leg amputated in the seventeenth century, you went to a barber; you didn’t rush to him for a scratch. I’ve seen psychiatry save and redeem. I’ve also seen people going year after year to psychiatrists or therapists and growing steadily more self-centered. Most of us like being the center of the universe; no wonder these people don’t want to give up their bi-weekly sessions.
~ Madeleine L’Engle, in  A Circle of Quiet (NY: Harper, 1972), pages 46-47

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June 6, 2008 by kevinstilley

Erich Fromm – Select Quotes

Erich FrommDostoevsky said, “If there is no God, then anything is possible.”  I would say that if there is no love, nothing is possible.  Man absolutely cannot live by himself.

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May 26, 2008 by kevinstilley

Sigmund Freud – Select Quotes

Sigmund Freud

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The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is: What does a woman want?

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May 12, 2008 by kevinstilley

Maintaining Independence – Wheelchair Vans

No one likes to be dependent upon other people. My aging parents struggle with allowing other people to do nice things for them. They spent their whole life investing in the lives of the people in their church and in their kids. But now that they are not able to do everything for themselves it drives them nuts for other people to care for them the same way that they have cared for others.

The fact is that God made us to be interdependent. As John Donne said; (with his spelling retained)

No man is an Iland intire of itselfe; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; if a clod bee washed away by the Sea, Europe is thelesse, as well as if a promontorie were, as well as if a mannor of thy friends or of thine owne were; any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankinde; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

Still, it is difficult to be dependent upon others. When I was pastoring in Arkansas one of the men in our church gradually lost the use of his legs. About every other week I would drive him to Little Rock to see a doctor or therapist. Although, I did not mind doing this, and very much enjoyed his company and the time we got to spend together, I could see the emotional pain in his eyes as we would struggle to load and unload him and his wheelchair from the truck.

A wheelchair van may be an option for some who find themselves in this situation. You can investigate handicap vans at IMED Mobility. Their website has new and used vehicles for sale and products to make transportation more convenient for those with disabilities; chair toppers, vehicle lifts, turning automobile seating, driving aids, and more. For those investigating their options, this is a good place to start.

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