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| What do you mean when you say that you are not a clinician? | It means that I do not approach human nature from a medical, mechanistic, or behavioristic viewpoint. Instead of seeing the human as a kind of complex machine or robot the way that medicalists and clinicians do, my approach to the study of behaviorial and emotional pheneomena is from a metaphysical viewpoint. This means that I look at behavioral patterns as manifestations of some kind of underlying, unconscious 'drive' or emotional longing from the deepest part of ones being. When these natural longings are not possible to fulfill because one's chosen life does not allow their fulfillment, or because they have become thwarted or obstructed by social conditionings, the longing or drive does not just go away; it appears in a subverted form, buried inside patterns thought, fantasy or behavior. I read the symbolic language of abstract patterns in order to discover what the unfulfilled longing or frustrated drive is. Once this is known, then something can be done about it on a conscious level. |
| Will knowing the underlying reasons or causes of an emotional or behavioral disturbance make it go away? | No. Just knowing why you do something repetitively or fantasize about something repetitively does not make the repitition magically disappear, though it is common for people to lose their interest in enacting their usual patterns of whatever it is they have been discussing in psychoanalysis. This does not mean the pattern disappeared; it only means that because it is being dealt with on a conscious level, the strain that it causes is being alleviated somewhat through its discussion, but this is only temporary; it is only a release of some tension, and in time the pattern will return unless the reason for its existence is dealt with in a way that goes beyond mere discussion. |
| If finding out why I have my uncontrollable repetition will not make it go away, then what good is going through an analysis? | It is nearly impossible to resolve a disturbance while it remains unconscious. Sometimes disturbances remain unconscious and are resolved by going through life, but that is very rare; most of the time it is necessary to become consciously aware of the disturbance and then do something with it. So, analysis is the starting point, not the ending point, of resolving an ontological disturbance. The only other option a person has who chooses not to become aware of the underlying reasons for a disturbance, is to use rational willpower to control the disturbance. This is the typical approach taken in clinical psychology, and it has only a 5% success rate because willpower is a kind of force, a kind of self-control, and force can not be sustained indefinitely. Willpower breaks down in time when the disturbance is ontological, because the rational mind is too weak to control disturbances that originate from a very deep part of the person. For those who don't understand the value of becoming consciously aware of the cause (note that I said cause; I did not say origin, which is different from cause and is not necessary to know in order to resolve the disturbance) of a disturbance, I suggest going about trying the common approaches to disturbances taken in clinical psychology, then come back in a couple of years when you're finished finding out that the approach taken in clinical psychology utterly fails to address ontological disturbances and is concerned only with controlling behavior, which is not a resolution, but is only a temporary superficial 'fix' in order to remain functional without resolution. |
| OK, so if it is necessary to become consciously aware of the cause of my disturbance that is buried symbolically in some kind of uncontrollable repetition, but analysis alone does not resolve the disturbance, and neither does any approach that relies purely on the rational mind to use willpower to control myself, then how in the heck do I resolve the disturbance once it is uncovered? | Well, that's the million-dollar question! And if I had one answer that applied to everyone, I'd certainly be an over-night millionaire! The answer is not that easy. What each person needs to do to resolve its disturbance varies from person to person, according to the nature of the disturbance and what kind of internal and external resources the person has to use towards resolution of the underlying disturbance. However, there are some general things I can say that apply to the resolution of all ontological disturbances (keep in mind that most of the time when a person has an uncontrollable repetition of an extreme form, the cause of it is an ontological disturbance that has been left unresolved for a very long time). One thing for certain is that the resolution might involve verbalization, but it must go far beyond just sitting and talking about the disturbance. The resolution process must be physical and it must be very intensive, that is, it must involve the whole being, not just one or two parts of the person. So, in essence, in order to resolve an ontological disturbance it is necessary in all cases to go through a shift in being, or a transformation you might call it. A metamorphosis really, and it must be extensive and intensive. What this looks like in form is as varied as each person's life is. Some people have to change their careers or the people they surround themselves with as part of the process. The process also usually involves taking up some kind of body work such a yoga, tai chi chuan, meditation, or any other kind of body work that is designed to create a connection between the body and mind. This is necessary because the disturbance has to be accessed through the body to be completely accessed; as long as the access remains only intellectual it is superfical, never deep enough. |
| Is it true that people spend years or decades in psychoanalysis or psychotherapy and typically get very little or no benefit from their time and money spent? | Yes, that is true, and that is because the classic, common approach taken in the mental health care industry was created in order to make people dependent on clinicians. Clinical psychology, in all its guises, is not really concerned with healing people; it is concerned with controlling people in order to make them functional in society. Being able to function in society and feel pretty OK about being alive is considered 'normal' and 'healthy', so that is the goal. Metamorphosis is not the goal in the medical industry because if people were to actually heal, they would no longer need the mental health care workers, they would no longer be 'consumers' of mental health care, and that is not how clinicians keep their big, fancy, tall buildings. It is very profitable for the medical industry to keep people minimally functional, so that they need frequent and long-term psychotherapy. My approach is the opposite. I don't think that society is healthy, so I am not concerned with helping people to adjust to it. My work is very specialized. The people I work with already function very well in society, often at a high level. Analysis is not meant for the severely dysfunctional, such as those found in insane asylums, because unfortunately they can not communicate on the level necessary for a successful analysis. For the same reason, analysis is not meant for children. Analysis works best with the highly educated, intelligent, sensitive, analytically-minded person. So, in my work, I am concerned only with helping people to become crystal clear about the underlying causes of their disturbances, and once that is accomplished, people know what to do to resolve their disturbances. This is what makes my form of analysis short-term. The answers to our questions are already in us. My job as an analyst is to help people reach clearly, and in this clarity people know what to do to solve their problems. So, analysis results in not just adjusting to and functioning in society, but in moving towards fulfillment of one's potentials in life. |
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