Posted by IntendedMispelling on November 25, 2009, at 0:52:30
In reply to Re: Where are the honest people in this world?, posted by emmanuel98 on November 24, 2009, at 18:38:58
Its a small state in terms of population. And there is a program which is based on the Soteria House program. But they only have one staff therapist. I talked to him on the phone and it turns out that he was trained under a psychologist who was a colleague of Gregory Bateson when he was doing research on the families of those with Schizophrenia.
Yet when I talked with him on the phone. I was taken aback by his confusing manner.
I told him that a friend of mine was in Iraq for several weeks and then then he said. "Your sounding paranoid, if he has a gun he could shoot you?"
What is this paradoxical psychology?
Is he imitating the way that therapists automatically codify patterns of behavior so that they conform to there own preconceptions of severe mental lllness? Yet in a way that is blatant and evident and therefor manageable? Is he setting up some kind of Zen like trap/mind puzzle for me to overcome and therefor develop better ways of interacting with others? Or is he just being a jerk?
I don't know and I don't really care. Some of these approaches to therapy are all very intriguing I suppose but I want straightforward simplicity and human openness. I've had to deal with mind games with therapists before and it isn't fun so I'm just not interested in that.
Which is why I'm still looking for a therapist. It seems like everyday I do at least one thing over the Internet in effort to find that therapist. Right now I'm focused on finding a therapist that will do Skype or Telephone.
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