2 Quotes by Jon Stone

He knows the only way to fake emotion'sto fake (but not too well) lack of emotionbut not to get too tied up in its absence(or, if you like, the pretence of its absence).

The classic psychoanalytical interpretation of la belle indifférence is that it is evidence that an intrapsychic conflict has been converted and kept from its unacceptable conscious expression by the production of a physical symptom – so-called primary gain. Freud was the first to admit that this process of conversion was not always complete.