1x5 Monday 9/9/19
The 5x5 experiment
Hello from my office.
Hmm. How to start this. Ok, I’ll try this.
How I use to do things:
One of the things I use to do with this newsletter was send out a list of things that I was reading, watching, listening to, thinking about, and working on. As of late that seems to have changed.
The past few editions of CP have been really about what I’m thinking about, and all the other stuff seems to have fallen by the wayside. It has touched on some of what I’m working on. Be that as it may, I am still reading stuff, watching things, and listening to stuff.
So I got to thinking about using CP to do two things.
Continue doing the long-form thinking through writing that I send out weekly (usually on Sunday). This would be my “big idea” stuff.
A more regular and much short sort of thing that I would do on weekdays. This would be my “Hey look at this, because I think it is cool” stuff.
So here is the plan:
This week I’m going to try to send out a short email on the week days (shorter than this one, where I’m explaining what I’m doing), and the regular long thing on Sunday.
The experiment will show two things.
If I have the ability to do this on an almost daily basis. (I might not!)
If you, dear reader, like this.
1x5 Monday — A lecture via YouTube.
What I’m linking to here is a lecture by Leston Havens MD. The lecture is an audio-file, but it is hosted on YouTube, which is a video platform.
A description of the clinical work that Harry Stack Sullivan did with so-called “difficult patients”.
Analysis as doing as opposed to analysis as knowing.
Difficult patients are the patients the patients the clinician has a hard time reaching. (Thus, who is a “difficult patient” for one clinician is not necessarily ad “difficult patient” for another clinician.)
I use this in a class I teach on doing clinical work with adolescent patients. I hope you find it interesting!
A request:
If getting shorter emails like this is something you like tell me. Likewise, if it is just too much (if it clogs up your inbox with stuff you don’t really care about) tell me that too.
The decision on if I should keep this up will be made later, based on how doing this makes me feel, and the (positive or negative) feedback I get from all y’all.
Take care & leave a stain on the silence.
-N