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When They Talk About Family Values, It's In A Repressive Way, As If Our American Tradition Were Only The Puritan Tradition Or The 19th Century Oppressive Tradition. The Christian Tradition.

What I Try To Point Out Is The Role An Ordinary Person Can Have In Seeing The Child's Destiny. You Have To Have A Feeling For The Child.

Our Lives Are Determined Less By Our Childhood Than By The Traumatic Way We Have Learned To Remember Our Childhoods.

So When You Consider The Archetypal, Historical, And Cultural Background Of Whatever You Do, It Gives You A Sense That Your Occupation Can Be A Calling And Not Just A Job.

One Strand Of Psychotherapy Is Certainly To Help Relieve Suffering, Which Is A Genuine Medical Concern. If Someone Is Bleeding, You Want To Stop The Bleeding. Another Medical Aspect Is The Treatment Of Chronic Complaints That Are Disabling In Some Way. And Many Of Our Troubles Are Chronic. Life Is Chronic. So There Is A Reasonable, Sensible, Medical Side To Psychotherapy.