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Speaking of Freud's couch, here is a beautiful image.
Probably by Edmund Engelman

Engelman's photos were used as a basis for the set in the film
Nineteen Nineteen

CyberTherapy 2004 – 10-12 January, San Diego, CA.

This looks like it is more about the technology for a wide range of e-health rather than psychotherapy online. When it comes to psychotherapy I am a bit of a luddite – if that can be applied to an online therapy enthusiast. The great potential of plain text emails is mostly underutilised. Therapy thrives on simplicity. Freud is famous for a couch! It was a device to reduce visual contact. Many of the boundaries we take for granted today also reduce usual interactions. The emphasis on the communication, on what can’t be seen in rl – the inner stuff is important. Psychotherapy spares the inner world of the complexities of ordinary day-to-day life.

So I am not an enthusiast for real time and more devices to replicate reality, not for the purposes of therapy. Images are a different story. Drawing, painting, photos and cinema all have a part to play in therapy, others’ art and one’s own art. Art is a way of going beyond the surface of life to the experience of life. Art therapy online makes good sense.

But I digress from the actual conference, which sems thorough given its brief.

Watched DA Pennebaker’s movie Bob Dylan Dont look back. Fun with the commentary turned on.

I liked seeing Joan Baez, whose song “We Shall Overcome” bought on this wave of nostalgia when I heard it the other day. I find it sad that once I did believe that we would overcome and now… I merely want to believe it.

Snapped these two shots while watching… I like the way we have performers, then a movie maker, then a DVD then a digital photo on a PC, then an image on the web nearly 40 years later. The Joan Baez one I quite like with its Picassoesque look, though her music is not of that ilk. The movie itself though is a stylistic mirror of the Dylan touch and era.

Insight :This from a 1998 interview with James Hillman makes sense to me, I feel like that:

Hillman: I’ve been wrestling with these questions for thirty- five years. I sometimes get short-tempered in a public situation because I think, Oh God, I can’t go back over that again. I can’t put that into a two-word answer. I can’t. Wherever I go, people say, ‘Can I ask you a quick question?’ It’s always, ‘a quick question.’ Well, my answers are slow. [Laughs]

FeedDemon is a new RSS aggregator for Windows machines. It’s a fine beastie, allowing you to categorize multiple feeds flexibly and usefully. There’s an interesting Watch feature, which is supposed to trawl the blogosphere for terms you enter, like OpenCola was going to do.

(thanks to Mike Richwalsky!)

and also to Bryan Alexander where I lifed this whole Item after downloading Feed Demon and liking it enough to kill my other one. This is from the maker of Homesite – and it follows form.

take5 and vote:

1. NZ’s key export markets do not want GE food. Releasing GE doesn’t make economic sense.
2. NZ enjoys a clean green image globally. Releasing GE will irreversibly damage this.
3. Extending the GE moratorium by 5 years will not stop NZ scientists developing medicines to improve human health.
4. No long-term health studies have been completed on humans eating GE food. How can we ‘proceed with caution’ when the scientists don’t even know what’s going on?
5. It appears altered genes can transfer from GE plants to weeds. NZ’s economy relies heavily on agriculture. The last thing we need are super weeds.

”I am not caused by my history — my parents, my childhood and development. These are mirrors in which I may catch glimpses of my image.”

— psychologist James Hillman

Boycott-Riaa.com:

“Get educated… Don’t take our word for it. Research. Learn. Don’t be Manipulated.”

Wings of Desire I mentioned in the last post is the Wim Wender’s film, Bruno Ganz stars as Damiel. Here he is – contemplating his fall: