child archetype worship
the therapy thing—you go back to your childhood. But if you’re looking backward, you’re not looking around. This trip backward constellates what Jung called the “child archetype” … by nature apolitical and disempowered … the adult says, “Well, what can I do about the world? This thing’s bigger than me.” That’s the child archetype talking. “All I can do is go into myself, work on my growth, my development, find good parenting, support groups.” … By emphasizing the child archetype, by making our therapeutic hours rituals of evoking childhood and reconstructing childhood, we’re blocking ourselves from … removed the most sensitive and the most intelligent, and some of the most affluent people in our society into child cult worship
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growth project of therapy
growth a huge part of the project of therapy, but the very word grow is a word appropriate to children. After a certain age you do not grow. You
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history is our causality developmental psychology
the principal content of developmental psychology: what happened to you earlier is the cause of what happened to you later. That’s the basic theory:
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memory is a form of fiction
any journalist or cop can tell you, if you talk to several different people about an event they all witnessed or participated in, you’ll have
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a perspective on psychological work
By shifting our perspective on history and embracing the present, we can unlock our true potential and break free from self-imposed limitations. Discover the transformative conversations with the Catalyst, a psychological coaching that helps individuals overcome fear and resistance, embrace their unique perspectives, and create better futures for themselves and others.
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collective obsession with growth
Curious and perhaps not very subtle correlation between Hillman's words on our obsession with psychological growth and the GDP of economics.
growth a huge part of the project of therapy, but the very word grow is a word appropriate to children. After a certain age you do not grow. You
the principal content of developmental psychology: what happened to you earlier is the cause of what happened to you later. That’s the basic theory:
any journalist or cop can tell you, if you talk to several different people about an event they all witnessed or participated in, you’ll have
By shifting our perspective on history and embracing the present, we can unlock our true potential and break free from self-imposed limitations. Discover the transformative conversations with the Catalyst, a psychological coaching that helps individuals overcome fear and resistance, embrace their unique perspectives, and create better futures for themselves and others.
Curious and perhaps not very subtle correlation between Hillman's words on our obsession with psychological growth and the GDP of economics.