"All of this was delivered, as anyone can see from the video, in the voice and idiom of a therapist. I found it profoundly creepy. It was the language of “compassion” and “feelings,” but it came across as deeply controlling and aggressive." Not to denigrate the entire modern therapeutic industry, but let's be clear, it is a secular pries…
"All of this was delivered, as anyone can see from the video, in the voice and idiom of a therapist. I found it profoundly creepy. It was the language of “compassion” and “feelings,” but it came across as deeply controlling and aggressive."
Not to denigrate the entire modern therapeutic industry, but let's be clear, it is a secular priesthood. It is the science of the soul, conducted by people who don't actually believe in the soul. They believe in the psyche, the Freudian aspects of mind and consciousness. I have been in Freudian analysis as well as Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy. There is nothing mysterious about any of it, whether you're talking about your parents and analyzing your dreams, or filling out questionnaires that organize your thoughts and clarify your patterns of belief. Ultimately, in my experience what matters most is not the latest theory of the science but your relationship with the therapist. If any healing and change comes, it is from within that dynamic. And it is completely mutual. I have not met a normal therapist, I believe they chose the field of study primarily to understand their own dysfunctions. The dysfunctions have to do with core family relationships, obviously. We are all trying to understand what happened to those that surround us most intimately, so we can understand ourselves.
Since we have rejected the primordial divinity as superstition, we only have ourselves to talk to, and to talk about. There is no doubt that the psyche is not the same thing as the soul, that it is personality and mind, at best augmented by an unnamed mysterious secret, a remnant of a memory. The therapist's office is the field hospital of the materialist mind, alienated and looking for connection. That much it may find, but it won't find the secret to happiness. However, the connection is also fraught with danger. The science is an edifice built on sand, but it has true believers, who are exactly like religious believers. And they believe that their psyches have been healed, while yours is damaged. The DEI dean is one of those helpful therapists.
Personally, I don't mind a doctor of medicine telling me that they know how to heal a broken bone, and if I have a broken bone, I will consult a doctor. There is a lot of scientific evidence for a broken body, for patterns of healing and resilience. A broken mind, however, is a different story. A personality is complex beyond belief merely in our standard perception, not to mention the unsayable, the indescribable parts. Was Van Gogh's mind broken? Stalin? Putin? Rod Dreher? Myself?
I have a "schizophrenic" cousin. He was perfectly fine until his late teens. According to one of my aunts, Attila's mind was broken by the conflict in him regarding his father. His father abused him mercilessly while growing up, and Attila's desire to kill his father in revenge combined with his profound inability to actually carry out the murder, so his mind snapped instead. Maybe something else would have triggered the collapse anyway, because maybe Attila was born with that kind of fragile genetic structure -- who knows? I do not. The point is, professionals claim to know, and he has been labeled. Something is "wrong" with him. Surely, he can't take care of himself properly. He needs help. But I say there is nothing especially wrong with him that also isn't wrong with us, those who surround him and claim to be "normal."
Do you not see how easy it is to denigrate and dominate and insult people with this kind of setup? Meanwhile, the real therapy happens inadvertently. The real therapy happens when people treat Attila like a totally regular person. Attila desires normalcy, after all. And he might be capable of more justice than his father, who is basically a sane criminal.
If we got rid of this paradigm entirely, and returned to the concept of the soul, salvation and sin, right and wrong, moral act and immoral act, Attila's contribution would be judged quite differently.
I've personally known a number of psychologists and even a famous psychiatrist, Evelyn Hooker, and all of them were deeply troubled in their own minds. I think the only psychiatrist who was not insane himself, was Thomas Szasz.
Being thoroughly screwed up neurologically, I was the patient of a first rate clinical neuropsychologist for eight years. He did me a lot of good. I needed to talk. I had a lot of questions. My time as his patient was illuminating and deep in therapeutic gain for me.
He's a remarkable guy. One of the first things I learned about him was that he'd completed five and a half of the six years of seminary required for ordination to the Catholic priesthood before he decided he couldn't remain celibate. I'm happy to report he has a charming wife and a half dozen children.
I was always disgusted by the little Buddha he kept in his consulting room, and mentioned this to him once. He protested that his dabbling in Buddhism did not clash with his Catholicism.
This good doctor/patient relationship came to its natural end. I didn't see him for almost seven years. Then, burning up with a question I wanted to ask him, I saw him for another appointment. The little Buddha had been superseded by two of the creepy things, each as large as a six year old child.
The aspect of his office was notably different, and I was made instantly uneasy by it. His previous gentleness had been replaced by an implicit brutality. And the son of a bitch tried to gaslight me about something extremely important.
On my way out of the office I was tempted to make a remark about idols and demons, and regret that I did not. M. Scott Peck's book, "People of the Lie," will leave you spinning your eyeballs on occasion. I'm all in favor of psychiatrists and of preachers, but not in the same persona, thank you. However, Peck was a Christian who believed in the existence of the demonic, and I recommend his book to you.
I would also add that while psychiatry may once have had some usefulness for identify certain issues that people experience, and techniques for them remedy (at least in part), today it's not even that. Whatever merit it once had as a "profession" has now degenerated into something more resembling witch-doctors.
Why do I say that?
Today it's mostly about dispensing pharmaceuticals (follow the money) and (like most of our institutions) has become politicized by the Left. Hence the shifting with the political winds changes to the DSM regarding homosexuality and transsexualism.
The Simpsons said it best when they identified the latest SSRI, it's called Repressitol. Apparently, the scientists themselves don't know how it works.
It's worth checking out HBO's In Treatment, where psychotherapist Gabriel Byrne begins the week seeing his off-kilter patients and ends the week seeing his own therapist, which, of course, raises the question -- who's more nuts? In Treatment is fun and witty, a satire of our circular, therapeutic culture.
I'm on board, it's a great show, I agree, but I haven't seen all of it, to my shame. Only a few episodes some years ago, so thanks for the reminder, because these days, I can't find anything worth watching. We are seriously deteriorating as a culture.
Note well, I have a therapist, and by this point in my life, I get quite a kick out of the experience, whereas before I placed them on pedestals. Understanding the complementarity and the mutual need is key. The process is treatment through communication, no doubt, it just can't fulfill the spiritual requirement.
Bottom line: that massive-aggressive DEI and her followers don't just have mental problems. They are seriously looking for God, or the Messiah, or the Devil, or something like that, and the problem is, they think they found it.
"All of this was delivered, as anyone can see from the video, in the voice and idiom of a therapist. I found it profoundly creepy. It was the language of “compassion” and “feelings,” but it came across as deeply controlling and aggressive."
Not to denigrate the entire modern therapeutic industry, but let's be clear, it is a secular priesthood. It is the science of the soul, conducted by people who don't actually believe in the soul. They believe in the psyche, the Freudian aspects of mind and consciousness. I have been in Freudian analysis as well as Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy. There is nothing mysterious about any of it, whether you're talking about your parents and analyzing your dreams, or filling out questionnaires that organize your thoughts and clarify your patterns of belief. Ultimately, in my experience what matters most is not the latest theory of the science but your relationship with the therapist. If any healing and change comes, it is from within that dynamic. And it is completely mutual. I have not met a normal therapist, I believe they chose the field of study primarily to understand their own dysfunctions. The dysfunctions have to do with core family relationships, obviously. We are all trying to understand what happened to those that surround us most intimately, so we can understand ourselves.
Since we have rejected the primordial divinity as superstition, we only have ourselves to talk to, and to talk about. There is no doubt that the psyche is not the same thing as the soul, that it is personality and mind, at best augmented by an unnamed mysterious secret, a remnant of a memory. The therapist's office is the field hospital of the materialist mind, alienated and looking for connection. That much it may find, but it won't find the secret to happiness. However, the connection is also fraught with danger. The science is an edifice built on sand, but it has true believers, who are exactly like religious believers. And they believe that their psyches have been healed, while yours is damaged. The DEI dean is one of those helpful therapists.
Personally, I don't mind a doctor of medicine telling me that they know how to heal a broken bone, and if I have a broken bone, I will consult a doctor. There is a lot of scientific evidence for a broken body, for patterns of healing and resilience. A broken mind, however, is a different story. A personality is complex beyond belief merely in our standard perception, not to mention the unsayable, the indescribable parts. Was Van Gogh's mind broken? Stalin? Putin? Rod Dreher? Myself?
I have a "schizophrenic" cousin. He was perfectly fine until his late teens. According to one of my aunts, Attila's mind was broken by the conflict in him regarding his father. His father abused him mercilessly while growing up, and Attila's desire to kill his father in revenge combined with his profound inability to actually carry out the murder, so his mind snapped instead. Maybe something else would have triggered the collapse anyway, because maybe Attila was born with that kind of fragile genetic structure -- who knows? I do not. The point is, professionals claim to know, and he has been labeled. Something is "wrong" with him. Surely, he can't take care of himself properly. He needs help. But I say there is nothing especially wrong with him that also isn't wrong with us, those who surround him and claim to be "normal."
Do you not see how easy it is to denigrate and dominate and insult people with this kind of setup? Meanwhile, the real therapy happens inadvertently. The real therapy happens when people treat Attila like a totally regular person. Attila desires normalcy, after all. And he might be capable of more justice than his father, who is basically a sane criminal.
If we got rid of this paradigm entirely, and returned to the concept of the soul, salvation and sin, right and wrong, moral act and immoral act, Attila's contribution would be judged quite differently.
I've personally known a number of psychologists and even a famous psychiatrist, Evelyn Hooker, and all of them were deeply troubled in their own minds. I think the only psychiatrist who was not insane himself, was Thomas Szasz.
Being thoroughly screwed up neurologically, I was the patient of a first rate clinical neuropsychologist for eight years. He did me a lot of good. I needed to talk. I had a lot of questions. My time as his patient was illuminating and deep in therapeutic gain for me.
He's a remarkable guy. One of the first things I learned about him was that he'd completed five and a half of the six years of seminary required for ordination to the Catholic priesthood before he decided he couldn't remain celibate. I'm happy to report he has a charming wife and a half dozen children.
I was always disgusted by the little Buddha he kept in his consulting room, and mentioned this to him once. He protested that his dabbling in Buddhism did not clash with his Catholicism.
This good doctor/patient relationship came to its natural end. I didn't see him for almost seven years. Then, burning up with a question I wanted to ask him, I saw him for another appointment. The little Buddha had been superseded by two of the creepy things, each as large as a six year old child.
The aspect of his office was notably different, and I was made instantly uneasy by it. His previous gentleness had been replaced by an implicit brutality. And the son of a bitch tried to gaslight me about something extremely important.
On my way out of the office I was tempted to make a remark about idols and demons, and regret that I did not. M. Scott Peck's book, "People of the Lie," will leave you spinning your eyeballs on occasion. I'm all in favor of psychiatrists and of preachers, but not in the same persona, thank you. However, Peck was a Christian who believed in the existence of the demonic, and I recommend his book to you.
Well said, Emil.
I would also add that while psychiatry may once have had some usefulness for identify certain issues that people experience, and techniques for them remedy (at least in part), today it's not even that. Whatever merit it once had as a "profession" has now degenerated into something more resembling witch-doctors.
Why do I say that?
Today it's mostly about dispensing pharmaceuticals (follow the money) and (like most of our institutions) has become politicized by the Left. Hence the shifting with the political winds changes to the DSM regarding homosexuality and transsexualism.
The Simpsons said it best when they identified the latest SSRI, it's called Repressitol. Apparently, the scientists themselves don't know how it works.
It's worth checking out HBO's In Treatment, where psychotherapist Gabriel Byrne begins the week seeing his off-kilter patients and ends the week seeing his own therapist, which, of course, raises the question -- who's more nuts? In Treatment is fun and witty, a satire of our circular, therapeutic culture.
I'm on board, it's a great show, I agree, but I haven't seen all of it, to my shame. Only a few episodes some years ago, so thanks for the reminder, because these days, I can't find anything worth watching. We are seriously deteriorating as a culture.
Note well, I have a therapist, and by this point in my life, I get quite a kick out of the experience, whereas before I placed them on pedestals. Understanding the complementarity and the mutual need is key. The process is treatment through communication, no doubt, it just can't fulfill the spiritual requirement.
Bottom line: that massive-aggressive DEI and her followers don't just have mental problems. They are seriously looking for God, or the Messiah, or the Devil, or something like that, and the problem is, they think they found it.
Dang, son, you win the day with "massive aggressive."
Why pay for fiction, when reality is even stranger and more accurate...
They've definitely been captured by the diabolical.