Last Post [[20200817 Blog Post. Wittgenstein, why are you so hard to understand]] Reading [[202009071534 Notes Reading Wittgenstein and Psychotherapy. From Paradox to wonder. John M. Heaton]] #blog https://moseshng.wordpress.com/2020/09/09/notes-from-reading-wittgenstein-and-psychotherapy > Have been reading and trying to understand the book since the last Post [[20200817 Blog Post. Wittgenstein, why are you so hard to understand]]. Again, this is about learning in public. Reading [[2… # Notes from reading “Wittgenstein and [[psychotherapy]]” Have been reading and trying to understand the book since the last Post \[[\[[[20200817 Blog Post. Wittgenstein, why are you so hard to understand]]\]\]](https://moseshng.wordpress.com/2020/08/17/wittgenstein-why-are-you-so-hard-to-understand/). Again, this is about learning in public. Reading \[\[[[202009071534 Notes Reading Wittgenstein and Psychotherapy. From Paradox to wonder. John M. Heaton]]\]\] – Until page 27 **Notes and Reflections** 1. What is natural can be named and translated into different languages easily, but concepts are hard to translate. Because of diverse cultures, the use of language at different time are different. 2. We come out with different words to describe our mind or inner experience, and we become distressed or confused when we are too fixed to those labels/words—becoming dogma. 3. What if there is no one way of solving a human problem? Yet we insist that there is only one way? Like forming a psychological theory. The people are forced only to resolve their problems in a limited way. 4. The therapist should act as a mirror with no doctrines, theories, diagnosis, and reflect what is before it. A mirror does not determine anything, so the therapist does not prejudice anything. 5. The therapist mirror back what client’s present and he learn to recognise the reason for his unhappiness come from how he sees, created the problem. They come out with their solutions? 6. What defines therapy as useful is not in the data/statistics but in whether both therapist and patient can make sense or not their mutual sanity, which involves recognising the limits of reason. 7. [[psychotherapy]] is about going back to the root, to understand how learnt, how we form the way we know things, to resolve paradoxes and despairs. 8. Before we can understand the mind, we have to have the language to describe and talk about the mind. Before we can make sense of mathematical objects, we have to be able to use mathematical language. That is how a child develops a concept of the mind, inner world and mental processes, only after she learns how to express her feelings, perceptions, thoughts. (a loop?) 9. Therapy is about reminding people of how they make or fail to make, sense (clarifying the contradictions). Perhaps less of making discoveries, behaviour, or relationships. 10. In therapy, we see people show up with confused reasons because their thinking is fighting themselves. Reasons are contradicting each other. Become Locked up. This page will be updated As of 9 Sep 2020  Interests in stoicism, [[psychotherapy]], international relations, exercising, meditation. Friends welcome! [View all posts by Moses Hng](https://moseshng.wordpress.com/author/moseshng/)