After writing about what I called the ethics of attention, I would like to explore how these ideas appear in the therapy room. The philosophical questions I wrote about two weeks ago are not abstract there. They have faces. They have names, stories, and hopes. They sit across from me, sometimes carrying burdens that have… Continue reading The Ethics of Attention in the Therapy Room
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The Ethics of Attention
A person incapable of sustained attention cannot truly encounter another person. To them, the afflicted become abstractions. The poor become statistics. The refugee becomes a political argument. The dead schoolchildren become one image among countless others, possessing no greater claim upon us than entertainment.
Roque Neto 