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An excerpt below from the brilliant ‘Personality Syndromes’ paper by @JonathanShedler (reference jonathanshedler.com/wp-content/upl… ) I think about this often, and it really gets to the heart of what it’s all about. I’m in the infancy of my career in this field,but this is central 4me.

Monet, Hôtel des Roches Noires

Marcus Aurelius wrote this over 1800 years ago: “Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now take what's left and live it properly.”

Pierre-Auguste Renoir Luncheon of the Boating Party

"The sky is the ultimate art gallery just above us." — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good morning with Monet's Sunrise

Wassily Kandinsky

Claude Monet - Impression, Sunrise

Georges Seurat A Sunday on La Grande Jatte

This narrative review suggests mental disorders are statistical clusters of biopsychosocial properties, not sharply defined categories, mirroring concepts in species classification and supporting dimensional #MentalHealth frameworks. ja.ma/4sJvGuj

The Storm on the Sea of Galilee (1633), by Rembrandt

The Godfather Part II (1974) dir. Francis Ford Coppola

Edward Hopper, (USA,1882-1967) "Compartment C, Car 293" 1938 (IBM Collection, Armonk, New York, USA)

No Country for Old Men (2007) director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

We don’t treat an “organ.” We are more often treating the mind, not the brain. Psychiatry’s biggest mistakes comes from confusing psychological meaning and biological mechanism.

Venice by Turner

René Magritte, L'art de la conversation

Johannes Vermeer, View of Delft

No one understands the death instinct, not even Freud.I think what Freud was trying to address was the scale of destructiveness of two world wars.He’s also addressing self-destructiveness, meaning sometimes people enjoy their suffering. Adam Phillips Ref: interviewmagazine.com/literature/ada…