#existential psychiatry

[funeral]

The security of the personality, the quest for reality as a person in one’s own right, having personal significance and entitled to the space that one occupies. This is what ontologically insecure individuals are found to lack. The deeper one probes into their psychic makeup, the more evidence one finds that they experience themselves as empty, meaningless, futile, isolated, lonely, and aimless.

Bradley Seidman, Absent at the Creation: The Existential Psychiatry of Ludwig Binswanger

[funeral]

The ontologically insecure person feels more exposed, more vulnerable, and more isolated. He is made of glass: every Other is a potential Medusa who can stare right through him and turn him to stone.

Bradley Seidman, Absent at the Creation: The Existential Psychiatry of Ludwig Binswanger