Dr MWerner

There are 36 mega churches in the state of Alabama, but it was an Native American casino that’s stepped up to pay for all of the tornado victims’ funerals.

@jungianLaura This is so important Well done and thank you

#Jung: "A marked change occurs when the child develops #consciousness of his #ego, a fact which is registered by his referring to himself as 'I.' This change normally takes place between the third and fifth year, but it may begin earlier. From this moment we can speak of the existence of an individual psyche, though normally the psyche attains relative independence only after puberty. Up till then it has been largely the plaything of instinct and environment. The child who enters school at six is still for the most part the psychic product of his #parents, endowed, it is true, with the nucleus of ego-consciousness, but incapable of asserting his #unconscious individuality. One is often tempted to interpret children who are peculiar, obstinate, disobedient, or difficult to handle as especially individual or self-willed. This is a mistake. In such cases we should always examine the parental milieu, its #psychological conditions and history.4 Almost without exception we discover in the parents the only valid reasons for the child's difficulties. His disquieting peculiarities are far less the expression of his own inner life than a reflection of disturbing influences in the home. If the physician has to deal with nervous disorders in a child of this age, he will have to pay serious attention to the psychic state of the parents; to their problems, the way they live and do not live, the aspirations they have fulfilled or neglected, and to the predominant family atmosphere and the method of education. All these psychic conditions influence a child profoundly. In his early years the child lives in a state of participation mystique with his parents. Time and again it can be seen how he reacts immediately to any important developments in the parental psyche. Needless to say both the parents and the child are unconscious of what is going on. The infectious nature of the parents' #complexes can be seen from the effect their mannerisms have on their children. Even when they make completely successful efforts to control themselves, so that no adult could detect the least trace of a #complex, the children will get wind of it somehow. I remember a very revealing case of three girls who had a most devoted #mother. When they were approaching puberty they confessed shamefacedly to each other that for years they had suffered from horrible #dreams about her. They dreamt of her as a witch or a dangerous animal, and they could not understand it at all, since their mother was so lovely and so utterly devoted to them. Years later the mother became insane, and in her insanity would exhibit a sort of lycanthropy in which she crawled about on all fours and imitated the grunting of pigs, the barking of dogs, and the growling of bears. This is an expression of primitive identity, from which the individual consciousness frees itself only gradually. In this battle for freedom the school plays a not unimportant part, as it is the first milieu the child finds outside his home. School comrades take the place of brothers and sisters; the teacher, if a man, acts as a substitute for the father, and, if a woman, for the mother. It is important that the teacher should be #conscious of the role he is playing. He must not be satisfied with merely pounding the curriculum into the child; he must also influence him through his #personality. This latter function is at least as important as the actual teaching, if not more so in certain cases. Though it is a misfortune for a child to have no parents, it is equally dangerous for him to be too closely bound to his family. An excessively strong attachment to the parents is a severe handicap in his later adaptation to the world, for a growing human being is not destined to remain forever the child of his parents. There are, unfortunately, many parents who keep their children infantile because they themselves do not wish to grow old and give up their parental authority and power. In this way they exercise an extremely bad influence over their children, since they deprive them of every opportunity for individual responsibility. These disastrous methods of upbringing result either in dependent personalities, or in men and women who can achieve their independence only by furtive means. There are other parents, again, who on account of their own weaknesses are not in a position to meet the child with the authority it needs if it is to take its proper place in the world. The teacher, as a personality, is then faced with the delicate task of avoiding repressive authority, while at the same time exercising that just degree of authority which is appropriate to the adult in his dealings with children. This attitude cannot be produced artificially; it can only come about in a natural way when the teacher does his duty as a man and a citizen. He must be an upright and healthy man himself, for good example still remains the best pedagogic method. But it is also true that the very best method avails nothing if its practitioner does not hold his position on his personal merits. It would be different if the only thing that mattered in school life were the methodical teaching of the curriculum. But that is at most only half the meaning of school. The other half is the real psychological education made possible through the personality of the teacher. This education means guiding the child into the larger world and widening the scope of parental training. For however careful the latter is, it can never avoid a certain one-sidedness, as the milieu always remains the same. School, on the other hand, is the first impact of the greater world which the child has to meet, and it ought to help him to free himself progressively from the parental environment. The child naturally brings to the teacher the kind of adaptation he has learned from his father; he #projects the father-image upon him, with the added tendency to assimilate the personality of the teacher to the father-image. It is therefore necessary for the teacher to adopt the personal approach, or at any rate to leave the door open for such a contact. If the personal relationship of child to teacher is a good one, it matters very little whether the method of teaching is the most up to date. Success does not depend on the method, any more than it is the exclusive aim of school life to stuff the children's heads with knowledge, but rather to make them real men and women. We need not concern ourselves so much with the amount of specific information a child takes away with him from school; the thing of vital importance is that the school should succeed in freeing the young man from unconscious identity with his family, and should make him properly conscious of himself. Without this consciousness he will never know what he really wants, but will always remain dependent and imitative, with the feeling of being misunderstood and #suppressed." 4. I have given elsewhere a number of examples of the extraordinary kinship which exists in the psychological habitus of members of the same family, amounting in one case almost to identity. See "The Association Method," Lecture 2, in Collected Works, Vol. 2. ~C.G. Jung, "Child Development and Education," Development of Personality, CW 17, par. 107-107a [Emphases mine.]

@eat_dc Yum

Here's the menu developed for both Folger guests and neighbors:

.@FolgerLibrary reopens this Friday after an extensive renovation with new cafe Quill & Crumb opening in the Great Hall late summer/early Fall. They'll offer an all day menu of sandwiches, soup, salads, and pastries with afternoon tea & a full-service bar on performance evenings.

@haruharu_w_bts Thank you for also being there with us haruharu

🐹when the company asked what i want to do on 6/13, i said "this is something i have to do because the members aren't here." i recorded super tuna today and prepared really hard today. i might've been lacking a bit and really nervous but thank you for watching happily and i want to say i'll always be on your side. thank you so much for watching and coming! i will always stay by your side! @BTS_twt

@NationalZoo @FLOTUS I cried at this announcement

It’s official: the pandas are coming to D.C.! Alongside @FLOTUS, we’re thrilled to announce that by the end of this year, the Zoo will once again be home to two giant pandas. #DCPandas

@lsgrlr I am so sorry to read this.

I don't normally share personal information here. Mostly because this is account is for supporting the boys. My mom's in the ICU on a ventilator and no one knows what caused it. Please say a prayer for my mom. I would appreciate it.

@Snoopygurl82 @BTS_AHC Happy New Year to you too. Your caring and support helped me through 2023 and now we move in to 2024 💜🫰🏻

@BTS_AHC Happy New Year team. I wish you all the best and hope that 2024 will be an amazing year for us

Dear ARMY, To you who's survived through the storms & hardships of the past year, you did your best. Not all accomplishments need to be big, so please remember to be proud of yourself for making it till the end of this year. We hope that you'll have a happier & more comforting new year 💜

@athikers_bob If you ever want to walk again just as friends I still walk on the trail every day. Just let me know. I am not on this app as often as I used to be so I don’t check daily

@athikers_bob Bob. Sorry the hard times are on you. Glad you have someone to talk to. You are a good man. Take care. M

Don’t think of it as starting over. Think of it as preparing for the next phase of a long and interesting life. I finished my last degree at 65 and in the last 7 years I have had so much joy in walking with people in their own journeys as a therapist.

@TabithaK Because Alabama refuses to tax us including timber in ways that are fair to all.

Did y'all know that city school systems in Alabama aren't required to provide transportation for students? I know a student in Montgomery who struggles to find a ride to get to his local zoned school more than 2 miles from his home. How can this be acceptable?

@troublingtara Oh my dear I will be praying for you and all your family

On Saturday night our only son took his own life. He was also (like me) an addict. He was 30 yrs old. If you could pray for him, for us. It would mean everything to us. Thank you

Happy Birthday Jimin! You bring so much life not only to your music, but into our lives as well. We’re so proud of you, and we wish you an abundance of love and happiness for 28 and beyond. We love you!

@army_mellissa I am so sorry

My biopsy results came back. I'm still processing it all. I have a rare and aggressive form of cancer. I don't know what stage. They said that I will have chemo before they try to surgically remove the tumor. It's just a lot to handle right now.

@J00niesMsRight Congratulations

Getting myself out a debt was honestly the best thing I ever did. Having to owe card companies NOTHING is a great feeling.

@Se0kedInLuv I am so sorry that this is such a difficult time for you

Thought I'd be ok today, but I was wrong. Woke up and had an anxiety attack instantly, ended up having to stay home from work. My mental illness and stress are dragging me under, and I'm really struggling more than anyone knows to keep my head above water rn. Idk.

this is what i was looking for. yoongi didn’t raise weak bitches. get ready we’re going to make sure to thrive personally, emotionally, physically, professionally, academically and financially while they’re gone. GET YOURSELVES TOGETHER. DO YOU HEAR ME???

@Blomes33 @BorahaeArts Thank you. I am 72 and I love BTS. They have added depth to my life. And ARMYs are very sweet when we go to concerts. It is such a juicy part of my life

@BorahaeArts Plenty of old rockers in their 70’s and 80’s are still loving the music of their 20’s. We’re all the same

Every time someone asks "Aren't you too old for this?", I just laugh. I can't wait for them to start getting older and realise that you don't change much on the inside - besides caring less about what others think of you. I actually prefer being in my 30s, way more fun being a fan of things when you control your own time & money.

@ellanojams No.

I’m about to cryyyyy, am I making a mistake????🫨🫠😅

Omw to London, leaving everything behind… please send me cute btsvt for strenght🥲

@KarenBr5662 @UKIYO_713 That is beautiful to read. Stay fierce

Something struck me abt the Jamboree incident vis-a-vis Army. Its easy to assume that we r a monolith, when it's a community of diverse individuals. Our harmony can b taken as an "obvious" thing. But imagine as a BTS member seeing ur fandom made up of millions of diff ppl across+