memory is a form of fiction

• any journalist or cop can tell you, if you talk to several different people about an event they all witnessed or participated in, you’ll have several different events… Memory is a form of fiction, and we can’t help that. So we are very much the creation of the stories we tell ourselves. And we don’t know we’re telling stories. the memory is what really creates the trauma.
• part of the trouble in the training of psychotherapy, that psychotherapists don’t learn enough literature, enough drama, but learn cases and diagnostics — things that do not necessarily open the imagination, it’s weird that people whose work will largely consist of listening to stories aren’t taught anything, from literature and from journalism
• child archetype worship
• growth project of therapy

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