Best Siri Hustvedt Sayings
- Bedtime rituals for children ease the way to the elsewhere of slumber - teeth brushing and pajamas, the voice of a parent reading, the feel… Bedtime
- There is no reason we should expect young children to enter the nocturnal darkness of sleep and dreams without help. Children
- I was 13 when I had my first bout of insomnia. My family was in Reykjavik, Iceland, for the summer, and day never really became… Became
- It is tempting to think of this form of insomnia, the inability to fall asleep, as a disease of agency and control: the inability to… Agency
- In sleep, we leave behind the sensory stimulation of the outside world. Behind
- Every mental state is also physical. Every Mental
- All human states are organic brain states - happiness, sadness, fear, lust, dreaming, doing math problems and writing novels - and our brains are not… All
- The brain is an immensely complex organ, and many mysteries remain. Exactly how brain and mind or soma and psyche are related is one of… Brain
- Sigmund Freud makes people irritable. Whenever someone mentions Freud, say, at a dinner party, I see eyes roll and listen to the nasty remarks that… Dinner
- I am not a physician, but I am deeply interested in diagnostic categories and have read extensively in the history of the subject. Categories
- Children are not in a position to assess risk and safety; it must be done for them, and it must be done carefully. Assess
- Perception plays a vital role in the diagnosis of bipolar illness. Symptoms are perceived through the categories of psychiatric medicine at a given moment in… Bipolar
- Every time the DSM prepares for a new edition, there are countless groups lobbying to get their particular mental illness recognized by the diagnostic manual.… Countless
- When I taught writing classes to psychiatric patients, I met people whose stories of manic highs and immobilizing lows appeared to be textbook descriptions of… Actually Suffered
- None of us is immune to suggestion. We are social beings and live in a social world. Beings
- I continue to write essays about art. The visual is always part of my work, and it gives me immense pleasure to make up the… Always Part
- There is a difference between using a made-up name and using real people as pseudonyms. People are not costumes you can wear. They are flesh… Blood
- With almost no exceptions, art by men is much more expensive than art by women. Even great women artists, like Louise Bourgeois and Lee Krasner,… Art
- There is this assumption that much of what I write is about my life, and that simply is not true. Assumption
- I have a tendency to face my bad fantasies in my books. Bad
- I love making up visual works of art in language. I get to be an artist without actually being an artist in that sense. Art
- People who grow up with two or more languages understand that each can express certain aspects of reality better than the other. Aspects
- Novelists embody plural selves all the time. What are characters, after all, if not other selves? All
- The relationship between the imagined and the real is more complicated than people imagine. Complicated
- Scientists have a tendency to believe in absolutes, in studies and the repeating of them. Psychoanalysis is firmly based in subjective accounts. We need both. Absolutes
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