We Dull Our Lives By The Way

Each Of Us Needs An Adequate Biography: How Do I Put Together Into A Coherent Image The Pieces Of My Life? How Do I Find The Basic Plot Of My Story?

One Strand Of Psychotherapy Is Certainly To Help Relieve Suffering, Which Is A Genuine Medical Concern. If Someone Is Bleeding, You Want To Stop The Bleeding. Another Medical Aspect Is The Treatment Of Chronic Complaints That Are Disabling In Some Way. And Many Of Our Troubles Are Chronic. Life Is Chronic. So There Is A Reasonable, Sensible, Medical Side To Psychotherapy.

From My Perspective As A Depth Psychologist, I See That Those Who Have A Connection With Story Are In Better Shape And Have Better Prognosis Than Those To Whom Story Must Be Introduced.

We Vote For Perot. We Think He's A Great, Marvelous, Honest Man. We Send Money To His Campaign, Even Though He Is One Of The Richest Capitalists In Our Culture. Imagine, Sending Money To Perot! It's Unbelievable, Yet It's Part Of That Worship Of Individuality.

We Are Human Less By Virtue Of Our Ideal Goals Than By The Vice Of Our Inferiority.