psychotherapy

Psycho-Socio-Therapeutic Discussion

July 6, 2014 by William Eaton

[print_link] [email_link] A query came into Zeteo—I wish I could remember who it was from. It reminded me of one of my favorite “found” books: This Fine Place So Far From Home: Voices of Academics from the Working Class. I have a particular fondness for found books, even for The Mystery Method: How to Get Beautiful Women into Bed, which someone—frustrated by his own lack of success?—left out in the rain not far from a lonely New York bar. […]

Categories: William Eaton, ZiR • Tags: psychotherapy, reading, social class, work, working class

“I didn’t even know I was feeling cold”

May 11, 2014 by William Eaton

An extract from an article by D.W. Winnicott has become lodged in my consciousness, and I believe for good reason. Like memories of a dream, Winnicott’s thoughts await events or a moment of inspiration to reveal why they are speaking to me (and perhaps others) now, and what they now have to say. In this article, “The Use of an Object and Relating through Identifications,” Winnicott was speaking to fellow psychoanalysts and psychotherapists, but my sense is that the sentences […]

Categories: William Eaton, ZiR • Tags: Adam Phillips, D.W. Winnicott, psychology, psychotherapy, T.S. Eliot

Reading 23-29 December 2012 (ZIR)

December 29, 2012 by William Eaton

Reading 23-29 December 2012 (ZiR) Texts William Eaton has been pleased to spend time with this week [One in an ongoing series of posts. For the full series see Zeteo is Reading.] 23 December 2012: Sort of coming to an end To a pre-Christmas dinner in Cambridge, Mass., I bring to my mother and one of my sisters copies of Wally Shawn’s Paris Review interview [Wallace Shawn, The Art of Theater No. 17]. I was alerted to this text by one […]

Categories: William Eaton, ZiR • Tags: art, education, Elizabeth Grosz, New York Review of Books, psychotherapy, sexual difference, sociology, Wallace Shawn, working class

Welcome to the Zeteo Fall Issue

November 15, 2012 by William Eaton

Dear Readers, Welcome to the Zeteo Fall Issue 2012. In a United States election year we began with the idea of choice. We challenged writers to speak about the choices human beings make not only in politics, but also as consumers, spectators and thinkers. We proposed that choice might be an illusion—our “choices” channeled by economic regimes, education, custom, biology, family dynamics. Zeteo is an interdisciplinary but not undisciplined journal. In this issue you will find pieces that speak directly about our choices. Catherine […]

Categories: Fall 2012 Issue, Issue Welcomes • Tags: Nepal, psychotherapy, rape, Thoreau

The King’s Therapy

November 15, 2012 by William Eaton

Exploring our hopes for a cure, with help from The King’s Speech By William Eaton {Click for pdf} Shortly after seeing the movie The King’s Speech, I had the thought that it might provide a platform for exploring some ideas about psychotherapy. It seemed that this was really what the movie was about: psychotherapy and the relationship between patient and psychotherapist. Rewatching the movie I was impressed by how directly it presented its approach to psychotherapy. One of the lead characters, […]

Categories: Essay, Fall 2012 Issue • Tags: Freud, Ian Craib, psychotherapy