The Comic Spirit Masquerades In All Things

We Would Like Otherworldly Visitations To Come As Distinct Voices With Clear Instructions, But They May Only Give Small Signs In Dreams, Or As Sudden Hunches And Insights That Cannot Be Denied. They Feel More As If They Emerge From Inside And Steer You From Within Like An Inner Guardian Angel. . . . And, Most Amazing, It Has Never Forgotten You, Although You May Have Spent Most Of Your Life Ignoring It.

I See Happiness As A By-product. I Don't Think You Can Pursue Happiness. I Think That Phrase Is One Of The Very Few Mistakes The Founding Fathers Made

It's A Terrible Cruelty Of Predatory Capitalism: Both Parents Now Have To Work. A Family Has To Have Two Incomes In Order To Buy The Things That Are Desirable In Our Culture. So The Degradation Of Motherhood - The Sense That Motherhood Isn't Itself A Calling - Also Arises From Economic Pressure.

I'm Not Critical Of The People Who Do Psychotherapy. The Therapists In The Trenches Have To Face An Awful Lot Of The Social, Political, And Economic Failures Of Capitalism. They Have To Take Care Of All The Rejects And Failures. They Are Sincere And Work Hard With Very Little Credit, And The Hmos And The Pharmaceutical Companies And Insurance Companies Are Trying To Wipe Them Out. So Certainly I Am Not Attacking Them. I Am Attacking The Theories Of Psychotherapy.

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.