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Let's add the context therefore - "... in dignity and rights." And immediately every objection falls away. Dignity and rights are social constructs an...

I can't find the emoticon for :Jesus wept:, so you'll have to imagine it. Political expediency would suggest that camels can get through eyes of needl...

See, that's where you go wrong, looking for guidance, as if there were someplace else to be. Get back to the fields and sing! :rofl:

I'm sorry, but CBT is just more coal as far as I can see. Nothing is far more genuine than one's feelings. Feelings are evoked by drama. One enacts th...

Interesting exchange. I would agree with this, except that it turns out to be the same narrative - the same play with a different ending. Rather like ...

Anyway, it was the Romans. And anyway Jesus was a Jew, and he didn't kill himself.

Argument? There is no argument. Perhaps this: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/may/10/athlete-shootings-swane-simmons-jaylon-mckenzie-kareem-abd...

In other news, broadcasters not wishing to be sacked in a shit-storm, are advised not to used pictures of chimps in their tweets about newborn babies ...

That reads so like every thread here; a disconnected dialogue that never finishes a thought. And the cat as stern therapist/moderator/parent, does not...

When one generalises from the patient's side on the psychology of the therapist, one's findings are bound to align with one's experiences. And indeed ...

It would be really nice to think that there is someone in charge who knows what they are doing. Alas, we sceptics suspect it is just a whole lot of fa...

The argument isn't that Trump is alright really, it's that nearly half of Americans are so fucked up that they think he might be, and most of the rest...

I think I roughly understand, and I think you are potentially right. Shall I compare therapy to a Turing Test? It is more lovely. The more you specify...

What this thread needs is more psychobabble. https://thegrayzone.com/2019/05/07/gabor-mate-russiagate-interview-transcript/

My professional experience is that this is the best vacuum cleaner. It has a friendly smile and a long wire. I speak without authority, the best under...

Well yes, I'm trying to say that they amount to the same thing. Everyone begins helpless and dependent. So if those you depend on are not dependable, ...

What I am seeing here is how a science based theory becomes an artful, creative, unique and individual relationship. Perhaps other passages resonate w...

Absolutely! In terms of childhood trauma, we are dealing with a dysfunctional primary relationship. Right. How can you trust anyone, when you cannot t...

Well whatever gets you through the night. But that's more or less what Herman said about resilience - maintaining a social scene through difficulties,...

Perhaps I am naive and innocent. I assumed most people here would be scoring 0 or 1. The first surprise to me was that folks could not seem to imagine...

Yes, I wasn't expecting it to go this way at all. But I don't think it has got dangerously personal. One brings one's outlook to philosophy anyway, an...

One of the things that gives one a platform is being controversial, aka political incorrectness. My feeling is that academic platforms should be reser...

Filling in a questionnaire, reading a book, even joining in a thread is unlikely to have a huge benefit to a person in distress. But a better theory o...

This cannot be a therapy session, but I'll just point out that 'establishing safety' is the first requirement for recovery from trauma, as set out by ...

Thus google: Addiction is manifested in any behavior that a person craves, finds temporary relief or pleasure in but suffers negative consequences as ...

That's a very sad confession; I'm very sorry for you. Unfortunately, such insecurity has a tendency to become self-fulfilling, because the only way to...

Theme tune for this thread is a nice uplifting one - 'Let me your enemy, but overall let me be your friend...' https://vimeo.com/52686646

I really commend this book, although I have only skimmed it as yet. There are resonances with other discussions here on political correctness as well ...

https://whatnow727.files.wordpress.com/2018/04/herman_trauma-and-recovery.pdf Here's her actual book instead.

I'd like if possible to move on to a consideration of possible therapies, and I am just exploring myself at this point, but reference to Judith Herman...

We know that war experiences can be psychologically traumatic to adults. It used to be called 'shell-shock', and these days 'PTSD'. Not everyone, but ...

I gave a lot of references: this from one on the trauma model. The Trauma model is inference from the data. If you want to question the data, you're g...

Alice Miller was particularly interested in celebrities, and she suggested that they are driven by the need for attention, and can never get enough to...

They could just ask one question, 'how happy was your childhood 0 - 10.' These questions turn out to be more predictive. But they are only trying to m...

I need a bit more than a word. This is just a wild guess, but if you are thinking along the lines that 'mental illness' is an attempt to maintain one'...

Not really. There are obviously factors that are not accounted for in a short questionnaire. there are obviously degrees of 'often' and beating and se...

Mrs un scored 3, and she was almost annoyed not to get more. She asked the same question. And the answer is that this is not a therapy, or even a diag...

If you do it to an adult it's called psychological torture, and it's a crime against humanity.

Does that amount to a bolded 'often'?

Yes, I don't know why. I assume it is not a mistake though, and that the wording picks up something better than a more neutral locution.

Yes. That's what I'm saying. It is very sad that that is at all hard to believe.

I think ivory towers are great adjuncts to any monastery. But if you use them as grandiose soapboxes, you deserve all the rotten tomatoes you get. Scr...

We had a little break, and now we've had some local council elections. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/may/03/tories-lose-over-1200-seats-in...

I wasn't expecting to be the Spanish Inquisition. I know you academics are sensitive little souls and all that, but out here in the rough tough world,...

There are forums that are closed. Members only places that do not allow the riff riff to join, but I am part of the riff riff, so unfortunately I cann...

While we're completely changing the subject, I would strongly suggest that these are not separate species, the bully and the victim, more of a circle ...

Indeed. We might, for example, want to distinguish one's partner's clitoris from one's mother's, in terms of disgust and/or obscenity. That is to say ...

Not you, your practice dodge. See? No, that's not my point. My point is that my language is proportional to Scrotum's language, and it makes no sense,...

It's my fucking practice, so he's condemning me. Really that is a completely pathetic dodge on your part.

Again, I see you condemning my language as trying to put something beyond reasonable debate as if calling something an obscene disgusting practice is ...