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The world, ruled by the pills and short-term therapy

Postby dissordered27 » Sat Mar 14, 2015 6:28 pm

The following quoted thing is reply of mine to an article making a statment for the OCD to be healed it psychoanalysis isn't suitable because it is framed on introspecion and therefore only makes you more compulsivly introspective. The article was posted on another site (P.T.) so I won't link to it, but the message stays the same and people should be aware of it IMO. It may be filled with emotional tones, but this isn't the point.

This article makes me feel very angry and irritated.

The author is basicly saying the aim of psychoanalysis is intelectual insight through compulsive insight searching, while in psychonalysis, one is actualy encouraged to start to feel and intelectualize less, so the solution is totaly different. Yes, sometimes intelectual insight helps too, but 90% of the importance goes to actualy breaking this compulsion of insight searching because this is just intelectualization or some other defense - this is just a running away from actualy feeling what should be felt - it's an acting out.

You do this because underlying, repressed energies push you to do this. The more we think, the more repressed or suppressed emotions we have and that's why we tend to think. The more emotions you release, the less you will be prompt to thinking.

And that's why it is logical no The Power Of Now, and Cognitive or Behavior therapy can't help this. It can only be done by slowly disarming the defenses one built to not feel what should be felt. You can see what a non-sense CBT therefore is. It just makes you think differently, so to fix the problem of thinking too much (which you do because of repressed energies) is to solve with the exact same problem you wan't to resolve - thinking. It's the same with relaxation techniques, too. You induce plesaure and that's why you relax temporary. But the next morning, next afternoon you're back to the same, maybe even on the higher lever - more stressful.

That's why also medicine is nonsense. You're just trying to push unressolved emotions even further. So basicly, again, it is the solution of "keep doing the same as you did before - avoid the unresolved stuff and you will feel better". So why would you need help in the first place if running away from what is to be felt is the solution?

The only solution is slowly disarming the defenses and this takes time. It may be 3, 5 or 10 years. I doubt more, cause in this case something is being done wrong. Psychonalysis is a complex thing because human nature of psyche is a complex thing and psychoanalyst has to adjust to specific case of person he's working with. And this takes knowledge. There are 1300 pages in just one book like "Psychoanalitic Theory of Neurosis". The reason lies in this very complexity of our psyche. And this is only one book. Imagine you have to have a knowledge of 10 books like this, and being analysed yourself before being analyist, and so on. So it takes a lot of knowledge, emotional objectivness (stability) because of countertransference which can occour, and it takes TIME.

And here's the issue. Because money rules the world, the ones having the most of it, have the most of the power and infulence. In my mind I have pharmacy. And because calculation is simple - one person can make 100 pills of daily, while 100 therapist can cure only 1 person "daily". I won't get into the calculation, it is obvious.

And that's why the short term CBT is mainstream treatment. That's why pills are mainstream treatment. It so so mainstreem patients are even becoming proud of taking various kinds of pills. And also, because of categorisation (labeling) of people within the range of like 10 personality disorders is producing people that are proud of labeling themselves with labels and they're doing exactly the thing mainstream wants them to do. This stuff is just sick and is leading nowhere.

If the fact is one patient needs to be treated by a single well educated analysist for a peroid of 5 years, than this doesn't mean this isn't productive. It just means people are not ready to invest time and dedicate to each person and treat them with the uniquness of the problems they deserve.
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