psychoanalysis

[joanna bujes]

At 07:13 PM 03/29/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>Blaming moms is what psychoanalysts often does.  Left-wing and/or
>feminist psychoanalysts have tried to blame authoritarian,
>patriarchal, and/or sexually predatory dads or father figures
>instead.  Either way, it's no political help.  Psychoanalysis has
>been a problem, rather than a solution.

At its best, psychoanalysis is not about blaming anything. It doesn't look 
for a cause. It's really just a form of guided meditation. (By meditation I 
don't mean a form of self-hypnosis.) Within a safe environment, you learn 
how to look. That's all.

Joanna