Hola,howdy,aloha
yes i do feel somewhat better,almost back to my usual misery.
i think this blog has a point to make,we shall see...
"ANATOMY IS DESTINY." attributed to Simone de Bauvier (?) Sartre's lover.(see her book The Second Sex for an exercise in self flagelation worthy of The Story of O,i recommend both)
THREE BRANCHES
modern psychology can be roughly grouped into three branches.
1.Freudian (the talking cure)
2.SKINNERIAN (behaviour mod as explained in his scary book "Beyond Freedom & Dignity", makes '1984' look like a wimpish coloring book.his initial research during WWII was financed by the War Dept. before the dovish name change)
3."Humanistic"(sic) Fritz Perls,Rollo May,Paiget,Ericson etc
As a child,when my father died,i had no barricades against my mother's rage and depression except to explore Psych.i read some books by Freud and quickly determeined,via my NYC BS Detector (ghetto street smarts?) ,that he was full of it. analysis of human beings should be as true in burgher 1900s Vienna as in Harlem or the jungles of Brazil. later in my thirties when i finally dragged my cynical weary ass back to college this analysis was partially verified.Freud (who had at least one daughter Anna,who followed in his footsteps) refused to believe that the rich burgers of Vienna were molesting thier girl children in the numbers that his analysis indicated so he Sacrificed their Truth to concoct his bizarre theories of the Oedipus and Electra Complexes.yup, he lied and ignored the truth being revealed to him.
Freud=Fraud it gets worse.
Freud's mentor was one Dr.Fleiss who had bizarre theories of his own.he thot that the seat of women's sexual desires and maladjustments was in THE NOSE.
not the 'wandering utereus' of HYSTERIA but the Nose.he mutilated many upper class and some poor women with unnecessary surgery and infected gauze et al and so was put out of business via lawsuits,Freud gave his menial support later in life but never,to my knowledge,publicly disowned him.
two of Freud's disciples later deserted him over this and other issues.Carl Jung (slightly racist against blacks and asians) with his theory of Archetypes and Wilhem Reich with his orgasms and orgone energy ,who fled Nazi Germany only to have his books burned by the US govenrment and be broken by prision.( i have my theories why).
basically no matter what your training (before brain drugs) research has found that you develop a synthesis of what works (if you are honest) altho untrained volunteers and pets seem to work almost as well.
PAIN PIMPS
(all the names here are false but all the events here are real)
i lived in NYC in 1970 before retrurning to the relative sanity of California.i was about 24 and my GF (now called a Cougar) was about 46 and divorced with a son almost my age (met him,nice kid).she was into a second career as a Reichian therapist and seemed surprised i knew who Reich was (so i'm a sponge for oddity and trivia,sue me).we talked a lot, we ate Indian food in Greenwich Village and hung out in Central Park where i met her.she later treated a 'friend' of mine (see future blog SOCIOPATHS- PITT THE MONSTER)
anyway she took me to a loft party of assorted therapists of all stripes and it was a zoo.she warned me 'just act like an anthropologist from Mars,don't judge them'-i was just some over educated oversexed kid from Harlem ,so i thot this an odd request.the leader of the group was a Freudian who looked liked Kaiser Bill from WWI with a withered right arm too,he shook hands left handed which i wasn't supposed to notice or mention.there were the usual NY liberals who were impressed that my Cougar GF had 'gone black',i seemed more of a trophy than a person to them.they all drank too much and talked too much then suddenly this attractive blonde woman started crying and dropped her top exposing fabulous plump breasts.she cried that nobody loved her and he husband cheated on her with his staff and patients etc etc,she was in obvious deep emotional pain. the reaction? "oh God,here comes Joy with those old tired tits again." these were therapists!
this is how i began to formulate the diff between True Therapists who want to help for their own motives and Pain Pimps who just want to make the mortgage and car payments.in LA i met a lot of victims of PP who saw their therapists anywhere from two to five times a week.
now,i am not denying that America is deeply screwed up. without our addicitve society Columbia would be just another agricultural backwater,but as the Radical Therapy movement once preached "therapy means change,not adjustment". most Pain Pimps are content to perform an endless necropsy of every time you ever had your feelings hurt and how it deformed your delicate psyche...GROW THE F--- UP!
LIFE IS BOTH HARD AND BEAUTIFUL.
APPRECIATE APPRECIATE DAMNIT!!!
stop looking at the future thru a rear view mirror as some pundit once chided.
okay was a point made here?
if not HAPPY VALENTINES DAY ANYWAY
-FIND SOMEONE TO LOVE WHO LOVES YOU BACK.
I DID.
in other news,
my EX sends me the update that LURPS (see prior blog on Sociopaths) is actually LRRPS promounced "LERPS" for Long Range Recon Patrol.sounds good to me.
don't forget to check the new blog additions and the Santa Cruz Commison on Disability website under RESOURCES to get the help you need.it's on the right too,pagewise.
aloha
c
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