psychoanalysis

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>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

I have no objection to guided meditation, as long as it is not 
presented as political explanation or solution.
-- 
Yoshie

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