Linguist in the garden
A few months ago, I was buying some large stones for my garden and I was offered a little proverb. If you want to be happy for a day, get drunk, if you want to be happy for a year, get married, but if you want to be happy for a lifetime, start a garden. This post is about discovering gardening. Continue reading “Linguist in the garden”
On being wrong in psychology
For me critical psychology was a revelation. It explicitly verbalised what I had been thinking. I still remember my first steps in challenging the certainties of, shall I say, positivist psychology and coming across writings of psychologists who were thinking in similar terms was a revelation. It’s all changing now. Continue reading “On being wrong in psychology”
You will die…
Some time ago, someone I know was going to have a fairly risky surgical procedure. Before the procedure, he had had a conversation about the risks involved. This is shared decision-making the Polish style. Continue reading “You will die…”
“Wypierdalać”
After the Polish Constitutional Court ruled that aborting severely malformed foetuses was unconstitutional, Polish women (with men) took to the streets. One, if not the most popular, of the slogans used in the protests is “Wypierdalać”. Here is my comment. Continue reading ““Wypierdalać””