Adam DeVille
@adamdeville
Professor of psychology and psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice. Canadian citizen abroad.
Karen Maroda is in the top 3 clinicians from whom I've learned the most. This updated 2nd ed. is even more fantastic than the 1st.
My youngest daughter, almost 15, manifestly earned a place in the will by sketching me this portrait of him "under whom we conduct our different lives" (in the words of Auden's panygeric) for Christmas.
@1t2ls.bsky.social: thought of you today in a bookstore in Charleston WV with multiple large poetry sections.
On the second day of Christmas we have some more Winnicott as a treat:
Bliss it is to have one's building on campus entirely empty, permitting silence to read and stare out the window. This new book on Bion is very good.
On a cold morning run past my favorite library tree and lo! what do I spy but some Handel whom I love. So I'll noodle away at this on the piano and be ready for my global debut c. 2097.
The quiet of the late morning before the first patient. While the kettle boils to make the tea, you fuss over the plants and wind the clock and enjoy the "stillness between two waves of the sea" (Eliot).
"Charles III, by the grace of God, King of...Canada and his other realms and territories...and head of the Commonwealth.." I want the Garter King of Arms job and costume.
My new purple plant brings delight every time I look at it. It joins one of, uh, dozens in my consulting room.
After far too many years of saying I want to learn to play piano, I had my first lesson yesterday (loved it!) and bought this get-up. I have been practicing today.