Book Club Session Review: Romanticist or Intellectualist
Are you a Romanticist or an Intellectualist?
“To cure a nervous patient means to CHANGE his mental attitude, that is, to make him drop his romanticisms and intellectualisms and to substitute a realistic outlook. If this is accomplished, a mental attitude of SELF-TRUST is installed, and the physical and mental tools of the body can then aim straight at their goals, without fear, without self-consciousness, without morbid preoccupation.”
Selections from Dr. Low’s Works, Bodily Tools and Mental Attitudes, page 48
Margaret's example that we excerpted during this Book Study was from The Passion for Self-Distrust, MHTWT, Chapter 29, page 240.
Here’s a reference about self-deception from a prior book study.
”You heard me frequently state that temper is an effort to deceive oneself into the belief that somebody is right and somebody else wrong.”
Tantrums Have Much Force but Little Feeling, MHTWT, Chapter 19, page 184
Enjoy reading the quotes in context. If you don’t have the books, you can buy them here.
There is an index in the back of MHTWT that you can use to find references to romanticism and intellectualism and study those. There is a wealth of material, especially in chapter 5, "Realism, Romanticism, Intellectualism" and the chapters on sabotage methods 7 and 8, which are really one chapter broken into two.
So now you have lots of readings from Dr. Low! plus all the other references in the index to study. Cheers! until next time. This should keep you up to date until we do Tuesdays with Dave and the next Book Study.
*** Everything presented in the last Book Study came from these references.
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