On 8/10/06, Doyle Saylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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.
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. ...
Doyle, I think it depends on what kind of talk therapy you're talking
about. Freudian psychoanalysis, for example, is very different from
cognitive-behavioral theory, which is very different from "let's talk
about our emotions" therapy.
--
Jim Devine / "In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to
be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But
in economics, it's the exact opposite." --- Paul Dirac [edited]
