Posts

Showing posts with the label A Guide to the Good Life

Sometimes it is better to forget

Image
As the hoards of therapists decend on the latest disaster, insisting on "helping" the traumatized, maybe they should forget their Freudian "the mind is a pressure cooker" model of that amazing organ and note that only about 10% of the traumatized need therapy. 90% prefer friends and/or forgetting as a way of coping. And for some of those 90% therapy will actually hurt them. I got those figures from studies quoted in "A Guide to the Good Life" by William Irvine: It linked up to another book I read last year about that tight-fisted liar, fraud and cult leader Freud, "Freud" by Frederick Crews : The problem for some therapists really is that they do not understand science, and so psychoanalysis (which was never ever a science) is ideal for them, just learn the buzzwords, memorize the books and you're done! The mind is a pressure cooker, what goes in must come out! Else it will hurt you! That is the law as laid down by our god, Fr