Psychoanalysis Versus Psychiatry at Wash U « Clarissa's Blog
Therapy is certainly one of the hardest route to finding answers to life's questions. Despite this, if the therapy sessions were really open-ended, without any core dogma, people who really wanted to get answers concerning their lives would have the best possible scope for doing so. Even then, they may not succeed, but only move ahead incrementally.
Regrettably, most therapists have a central dogma or moral ax to grind. Wilfred Bion had an excellent idea that the therapist has to enter a state of not knowing or state of infinite possibilities of knowledge, when confronting a client for the first time. This is good in theory, but we can’t really wash away our socially and culturally conditioned expectations.
Very soon, even a good therapist would start to get agitated if the patient/client didn’t tell them what they wanted to hear. If the client already has a basic theory of knowledge that differs from that of the therapist, this will not be easily inculcated into the therapist’s paradigm, which is likely to lead to charges of psychological resistance when perhaps the resistance is rather more intellectually and ethically founded.
Therapy is certainly one of the hardest route to finding answers to life's questions. Despite this, if the therapy sessions were really open-ended, without any core dogma, people who really wanted to get answers concerning their lives would have the best possible scope for doing so. Even then, they may not succeed, but only move ahead incrementally.
Regrettably, most therapists have a central dogma or moral ax to grind. Wilfred Bion had an excellent idea that the therapist has to enter a state of not knowing or state of infinite possibilities of knowledge, when confronting a client for the first time. This is good in theory, but we can’t really wash away our socially and culturally conditioned expectations.
Very soon, even a good therapist would start to get agitated if the patient/client didn’t tell them what they wanted to hear. If the client already has a basic theory of knowledge that differs from that of the therapist, this will not be easily inculcated into the therapist’s paradigm, which is likely to lead to charges of psychological resistance when perhaps the resistance is rather more intellectually and ethically founded.
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