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“Humanistic? No, I’m more animalistic…”

4th Apr 202221st Oct 2022 ~ Glenn Nicholls ~ Leave a comment

If each of our lives is an unprompted answer to the question, What is the point of my life? Then the crow is such a perfect answer to its own question - that it immediately forgets the question.  The best answer comes when you not only forget the question, but also the answer. Humans often … Continue reading “Humanistic? No, I’m more animalistic…”

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Hammer & Fork

Nietzsche described himself as philosophising with a hammer: the tuning hammer and fork is a metaphor for sounding things out. I see psychotherapy similarly; it takes a skillful, direct and gentle touch to sound out thoughts, ideas, behaviours and beliefs.

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