Posted by Sigismund on June 12, 2009, at 15:03:21
In reply to Re: why this site can be so hurtful... » Sigismund, posted by fayeroe on June 12, 2009, at 13:50:22
>"I don't really agree. I think it is because he has psychiatric training, which makes people over conscious of attempts to manipulate, with the results we have seen."
Did you mean that we, as posters, are overly conscious of his attempts to manipulate or the opposite?
No Pat, neither. I meant that psyciatric or more properly therapeutic training concentrates on the will. (All this comes from the wonderful Leslie Farber, an American analyst of the 60s.) He wrote books about willfulness and how therapy made it worse rather than better, citing the example of patient and therapist fighting a long battle over a pen. It's a side effect of therapy. I suppose the implication of this is that people with therapeutic training might be quite the worst people to run a support website. Maybe sheep farmers or cattle ranchers would be better.
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