James Hillman and Michael Ventura write about this blind spot in their book "We've Had A Hundred Years of Psychotherapy--And the World's Getting Worse."
they argue (among other things) that therapy should help people become more effective citizens/activists and question their social/economic/political conditions, not just contemplate their "personal" emotions and memories.
I am a psychologist and psychoanalyst who hates that psychology hitched their wagon to medicine and could not have said it better. Thanks for writing this great post!
"Considering that we were four people forced to live together for 18 years as two of us worked full time and the other two were training to work full-time one day but forced to pretend that we were doing something called 'learning,' our family could have been truly terrible, it was only terrible sometimes."
Ha! What an excellent dream. I had to Google “champagne coupe” to learn what that is, tbh. What a clever and funny subconscious you have for showing you the aspirational part of entering therapy and that it’s often not that good.
"...certainly like every woman worth being friends with." Yes.
James Hillman and Michael Ventura write about this blind spot in their book "We've Had A Hundred Years of Psychotherapy--And the World's Getting Worse."
they argue (among other things) that therapy should help people become more effective citizens/activists and question their social/economic/political conditions, not just contemplate their "personal" emotions and memories.
I am a psychologist and psychoanalyst who hates that psychology hitched their wagon to medicine and could not have said it better. Thanks for writing this great post!
"Considering that we were four people forced to live together for 18 years as two of us worked full time and the other two were training to work full-time one day but forced to pretend that we were doing something called 'learning,' our family could have been truly terrible, it was only terrible sometimes."
Mmmhhhmmm perfect.
Ha! What an excellent dream. I had to Google “champagne coupe” to learn what that is, tbh. What a clever and funny subconscious you have for showing you the aspirational part of entering therapy and that it’s often not that good.
One of my favorites of your posts! 😂