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Art & Aphorism …Or…What Feelings Might Think if they didn’t have to be reasonable
Though still floundering in the back streets ‘treating’ medicine’s castaways, psychology is surreptitiously emerging as a revolutionary social and political philosophy that will change the world. Already it has drastically altered the way we perceive and therefore treat children—which in itself has, and will far more permanently change society. Eventually psychology will rise above the past tense of history, to the pinnacle of social science as the preeminent discipline by which to understand anything.
If psychology is a science, it is not the science of sociology. Nor is it the administrative method of managing the probation of inconvenient character traits. Instead it is the science of emotion that will lift this long-ago discarded piece of human consciousness back into the mainstream of human understanding.
In its only legitimate practical application—psychotherapy—psychology is altogether about feelings and what they do to adapt, survive and form human character, and how they continue to dominate any thought or action no matter how carefully reasoned out. Psychology is about feeling, that long banished bastard of the human psyche, condemned and thrown away as a female perfidy, never again to be seen in the halls of reason and understanding.
This book of aphorisms speaks from this revolutionary perspective.
A COLLABORATION:
Don Fenn has written 7 novels, science fiction, romantic thrillers and political fables. This non-fiction book of aphorisms represents 20 years of gathered philosophy derived from his experience as a person and a psychotherapist.
Ellen Dreibelbis is a noted artist whose work has garnered numerous awards and honors. She paints in watercolor, pastels and oils. A metaphorical realist her paintings evoke mystical, mythical and iconographic themes.
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copyright© 2007, 2008 Don Fenn. All rights reserved.
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