Posted by IntendedMispelling on November 15, 2009, at 0:35:09
Do not write an answer to this question if your only reason for responding is to give me a lecture about how I should seek more "conventional" help or to tell me I shouldn't "self-diagnose".
I am looking for a therapist who has the training and philosophy to do work on patients who are schizoid.
By schizoid I mean a state that exists between schizophrenia and sanity. Under the modernistic and technocratic model which is predominant the schizoid is sometime diagnosed variously as: Schizoid Personality Disorder, Schizotypal Personality Disorder, Aspergers Syndrome, Borderline Personality Disorder, Mild Schizophrenia, Avoidant Persolity Disorder, etc.
In the established model of thought these disorders are regarded as entities in themselves. They are abstracted from the larger psychological processes and social situations that produce them. But a truly authentic psychology that is awake to to repressed realities and denials sees these diagnostic labels as reifications of violent social processes that undermine human freedom and dignity.
A truly radical therapy is also a simple therapy. For instance when R.D. Laing wrote Sanity, Madnesss, and the Family he did not need to elaborate any complex theories about Oedipal dynamics etc. He simply showed us the families of schizophrenics and asked us to *look* with open eyes as to what was going on in those families. And what we see is that there is little mystery concerning what forces are at work in these individuals. Crazy situations make for crazy people.
What I need is a therapist who can help me untangle the web produced by my upbringing. Someone who understands that the real source of severe mental illness exist in the social environment.
Please provide me with the names of such a therapist currently in practice anywhere in united states or if you are that therapist i'd like you to contact me.
Thanks.
My (expirable) email is srumervoot@garrifulio.mailexpire.com
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