So new thread.
Heisenberg applies. This is why the concept of operational definitions is so
important. While they are used a lot in psychology/sociology, I don't think
they are well understood. The original term was coined by Bridgman (The
Logic of Modern Physics) and it's worth reading. This is not the forum for
deliving into that.
To the extent attainable, the objectification of self is central to therapy.
Good therapists "Listen with the Third Ear" (the objectified self) and this
is I think what you are calling 'clinical detachment'. But, one cannot be
detached. First there is the issue of one's reaction itself. There will be
one however controlled and this cannot (and should not in my opinion - which
is where our real difference may lie) be avoided.
But it's more complicated than that. What the client (in this case) says is
a kind of prediction which is intended to produce a certain result in the
therapist. In other words, he says what he says (at least in part) to
achieve a reaction on the part of the therapist. He would be dismayed (I
think) to learn that the reaction had no emotional content.
I didn't say you said one should not feel emotions. I said you said we
should keep them separate and my assertion is that it is not possible to do
this.
I take a bit of exception to your statement that 'all people are beautiful'.
I'd modify that to say that all people are born beautiful and are inherently
so. I have worked in prisons and met some people from whom that seems to
have been rather completely removed somehow. Not all...many of the folks I
met in prison were quite nice. Probably exactly where they should be, but
nice nonetheless.
I don't, for example, feel that some of the people who use these groups just
to spew hate are beautiful. I don't hate them. If I have any feeling at all
for them it is sadness. They must be very unhappy people to get into such a
state.
In any case we should discuss something less controversial like religion or
politics.
Take care,
Duey
More of my rampant Marxism....
It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.
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