A good reminder to look for the humanity in others: in his excellent book THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE, the psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk wrote about his teacher making the rounds with him in a psychiatric hospital. “What would you call this patient,” van der Kolk asked, schizophrenic or schizoaffective?”
His teacher stopped, pondered the question, and answered, “I think I’d call him Michael McIntyre.”
How easy to forget!
Michael wasn’t simply a case. He was a person.
Never forgot, you and I work with people.
See Bessel van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score. New York: Penguin Books, (2014): 26.