Salt

I should refine my characterization of Anne's circumstances in the previous post. I don't of course mean that she gains agency which isn't already present. I mean, by modeling responses with her, the therapist or doctor allows her to recognize that she has agency over her own response, even if her Tourette's and others' reaction to it is beyond her control. This may often create a more upward-looking, more ennobling mindset in the children and adults around her (assuming an otherwise orderly school environment). Where it doesn't, she can be shown that there is peace of mind in having done all you can, and the children and adults who don't respond well are lacking--education, experience, etc.--on their part, and that she shouldn't incorporate anything that arises out of those limitations into her own self-appraisal or her own sense of self. 

I watched another film on Aeon film channel--Salt. It's about a photographer's journey to a salt flat in South Australia. The entirety of the film is visually stunning images and video alongside the photographer's reflections on the experience and on life. Perhaps his most interesting observations were that such a stark environment is also an interesting soundscape, and that being wholly alone with his thoughts made them seem louder, and for that he was able to observe them better.