Depression Opens The Door To Beauty Of

In The History Of The Treatment Of Depression, There Was The Dunking Stool, Purging Of The Bowels Of Black Bile, Hoses, Attempts To Shock The Patient. All Of These Represent Hatred Or Aggression Towards What Depression Represents In The Patient.

Many People Nowadays Who Discover That They Have A Major Symptom, Whether Psychological Or Physical, Begin To Study It. They Get Drawn Very Deeply Into The Area Of Their Trouble. They Want To Know More Than Their Doctor. That's A Curious Thing, And Not At All The Way It Used To Be.

I Like To Imagine A Person's Psyche To Be Like A Boardinghouse Full Of Characters. The Ones Who Show Up Regularly And Who Habitually Follow The House Rules May Not Have Met Other Long-term Residents Who Stay Behind Closed Doors, Or Who Only Appear At Night. An Adequate Theory Of Character Must Make Room For Character Actors, For The Stuntmen And Animal Handlers, For All The Figures Who Play Bit Parts And Produce Unexpected Acts. They Often Make The Show Fateful, Or Tragic, Or Farcically Absurd.

My Goal Is To Create A Therapy Of Ideas, To Try To Bring In New Ideas So That We Can See The Same Old Problems Differently.

We Approach People The Same Way We Approach Our Cars. We Take The Poor Kid To A Doctor And Ask, "what's Wrong With Him, How Much Will It Cost, And When Can I Pick Him Up?"