I am almost never right: a doctor admits how he thinks

One of the principles that drives my curiosity is that the first and second (and third) thing I think is likely wrong.  Driving past this insecurity into a confident stance of ignorance is hard.  At the foundation is accepting my failures is using them as a springboard toward my next magnificent failure.  When I am …

The one-eyed psychoanalyst

"In the land of the blind," it's said, "the one-eyed man is king."  Psychoanalysts have a long history of trying to convince people that they are blind and they need a one-eyed king to see into the depths of their unconscious.  They probe patients for clues into the depraved condition of their upbringing.  They interpreted …