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For me, the compelling

moat — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 00:47:44 +0000

For me, the compelling quality in Jung's work, both as writer and practicioner, is the focus on helping people become more responsible for what they are.

Apart from the important debates about diagnosis used in the "Boulder Model", where the limits of what can strictly be called a medical condition are hashed out, the ethos of responsibilty that Jung is pointing to can only be what it is or not involved with the process of therapy. It can't be replaced by something else without the patient becoming strictly the beneficiary of treatment: A pure object in a place where an agent is called for.

There's a BBC 3-part series

Beetlejuice — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 18:40:22 +0000

In reply to "TALK DOESN'T PAY. . ."

There's a BBC 3-part series called The Trap that goes into this. People began showing up with self diagnosed problems complete with a pretty pill they heard about they believed would cure their illness - something about a study with questions that identified the stage of your mental health was at the bottom of it. Pills are cheaper to manufacture and disperse and the people taking them really believe it cures what ails them. It's nothing more than a transfer of wealth from the psychotherapy profession to Wall Street investor portfolios.