Sublime

PSYCHOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS.

The therapeutic benefit is the observation that we are generally very good at loving children. Our ability to continue to keep calm around children is founded on the fact that we take it for granted that they are not able to explain what is really bothering them. We deduce the real cause of their sorrow from amid the external symptoms of rage,

The therapist by contrast is not only the most liable of the three typical characters of modernity to be deceived, but is also the most liable to be seen to be deceived, and not only by moral fictions. Devastating hostile critiques of the standard therapeutic theories of our culture are easily available; indeed each school of therapists is all too

Eric Berne conceptualised transactional analysis as a social psychiatry, meaning a model of human development that was based on interpersonal interactions. Berne emphasised that people can only keep their ego states intact and coherent when they are in continuous interaction with the outside world. Then the boundaries between the ego states remain

And, by extension, no one has ever fallen gravely mentally ill without, somewhere along the line, having suffered from a severe deficit of love.

Life is stressful and depressing for a person who learns through childhood to be helpless.

Traditional Zen training can, without a doubt, elicit and help resolve many personality conflicts that analytically-minded therapists would define and work with under very different conditions.

Nevertheless, monopolistic behavior must be checked, and generally it is the therapist’s task to do so.