Clouds

Dual keyboard free improv creation, 130516b, is set to relaxing cloud movement just above the trees. The poem preceded it by many years. For purchase of the music of the windchimed [not “The act of smoking a banana stoggey, black and mild, and immediately drinking german beer.”] but the sound of wind in wind chimes, music, go to www.soundclick.com/jgyoungmd. For more information about how it was created go to My Poetry and Music Creations. The poem is from A Psychiatrist’s Notebook that can be purchased at www.lulu.com/jgyoungmd
The poem was inspired by a patient who seemed to have little identity and was struggling to find one.
cf. Identity formation, also called individuation, is the development of the distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity (known as personal continuity) in a particular stage of life in which individual characteristics are possessed and by which a person is recognised or known (such as the establishment of a reputation). This process defines individuals to others and themselves. Pieces of the person’s actual identity include a sense of continuity, a sense of uniqueness from others, and a sense of affiliation. Identity formation leads to a number of issues of personal identity and an identity where the individual has some sort of comprehension of him or herself as a discrete and separate entity. This may be through individuation whereby the undifferentiated individual tends to become unique, or undergoes stages through which differentiated facets of a person’s life tend toward becoming a more indivisible whole
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