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Once Paul got fully involved with the Center, he started learning more about complications of the growth process that had been well out of sight in the monastic retreat in which he'd worked out his basic semantics. Although we were never as abusive as the "encounter groups" raging at that time, many people found that sharing their growth process with too many people was overstimulating, for instance. A few of these suffered from what Paul now called "psychic exhaustion." To counteract this threat, he encouraged us to pull back from the brink of "creativity poisoning" and to remember how to enjoy the simple pleasure of life. He also wrote a great introduction to his ideas, The Nature of Civilization, an essay on Freud, and his autobiography. In 1987 I wrote a handbook to help orient new Center members. To read more about any of these, click on one of the following links.

Subjectivity and Objectivity: Further Aspects of Psychological Growth [1974] The Relationship of Adaptation and Fun and Pleasure to Psychological Growth [1975] Psychic Exhaustion and the Growth Process [1976] The Nature of Civilization: A Psychological Analysis [1977] The Nature of Psychological Maturity [1978] A Renegade Psychiatrist's Story: An Introduction to the Science of Human Nature [1979] Freud and the Scientific Method [1980] Letters to Dean [1981] A Ninth Street Center Handbook [1987]