Greetings Economists, What I think is missing here is an acknowledgment not so much of the danger but what talk therapy means. There is a language component to feeling structure that is poorly understood. On Aug 9, 2006, at 9:37 AM, Jim Devine wrote:
"I was surprised by what we found," Dr. Olfson said. "I set out thinking we'd find that the drugs" significantly reduced suicide risk.
Doyle; I think therapy is pretty limited in how well it understands what is going on when people establish language links. Animals don't establish language links in social groups, primates do a lot of touching. These acts regulate emotion in a social group. Language is probably a substitute for touching in that sense. Talk therapy doesn't really investigate what is going on in regulating emotion between therapist and customer. If anything the whole therapist theory of detachment seems to be designed to limit how much contact emotion regulation happens in a therapeutic setting. The purpose of therapy is emotion structure adjustment for the person in therapy. Via talk. All this reportage about the suicide danger young people face is an example of how minimal therapy really attends to how young people really feel in therapy. What I mean really feel is that a sense of the true structure of the customers state of being in their emotion structure is really minimally known. This connection process is a central feature of disabled rights. The vast numbers of people suffering in the 'pain' structures of social connection demonstrate a monumental lacuna about the framework of social connection. Social connection for humans is 'talk' connection. Which regulates emotion for some people but for huge swaths of the population does not attend to their emotion structure and torments and tortures people who for whatever body physiology reason don't fit the language framework enough to properly regulate their emotion structure in connecting to other human beings. Further, it is implicit that this family related emotion structure is being exposed in a variety of ways not just about pain structure, but sex framework connections, gender framework connections, culture/'race' framework connections and so on. Socialist must have some way to manufacture emotion structure suitable to a sense of equality, and justice. Meaning, ending sexism, racism, and anti-disabled framework processes that limit and harm people. This is really the problem with the idea of 'working class' in that emotion structure work is still mystified. Religions are still handed this work on a silver platter and given the right to manufacture connections willy nilly of justice for women, via sexuality, or culture/language divisions. The intimacy of talk and emotion is the single most important aspect of social change waiting for socialist attention. thanks, Doyle Saylor
