| Meghann ( |
psychology is a degree, a profession, a science that concerns itself with mental processes and behaviour.
psychologists are people who learn, teach, research, practice therapy.
freud was a psychologist.
freud was a person.
people make mistakes.
many of freud's theories have been altered, rejected, proven wrong, proven outdated, proven to be full of misogyny, and proven incomplete. in my personal opinion, freud was a sexist hack, and there are thousands of psychologists (and women psychologists) out there who feel the same way and do not incorporate his methods - with the exception of the "talking method" which is just therapy's general structure - into their practice.
i'd like to recommend that you take a psychology course, for your own benefit and interest, that does not involve freud - humanistic, social, personality, abnormal, cognitive. open your mind to the ideas and theories of brilliant thinkers who aren't repressive, but inclusive.
i could give you a list of names a mile long of people who, simply put, have found beautiful and true connections between an individual and the society that influences them, without trying to mold the individual into some category of "normalcy." a "fit" person is a person who has a general sense of unity and harmony in their personality, who is happy with their own goals, place, ambitions, sense of self. a fit person is not a robot who does what they are told by society and functions at the lowest levels possible.
i feel the trouble you are having is with the general study of "abnormal" psychology. take an abnormal psychology course and educate yourself - you will find that the definition of abnormal does not involve people who want to be individual or eccentric or "themselves". it involves people whose lives are genuinely in distress because they are personally unhappy with the way their life is. therapy is a logical conclusion of abnormal psychology - and, depending on who you see, they all have different ideas of where the problem stems from. humanists believe that all people are inherently good, and some believe that it is society's poison that drives people away from their own inner goodness - which is an individual concept, not a societal one.
i'm not offended by anything you've said in your post. it's your personal opinion based on your own personal experience with psychologists. i just hope that perhaps you can explore the incredibly broad and, by the way, impossible to define by one person (or even a few people), field of psychology. and maybe find that there are some truly lovely ideas about the individual person, about the goodness of people in general, mixed in with the bad ones.
psychologists are people who learn, teach, research, practice therapy.
freud was a psychologist.
freud was a person.
people make mistakes.
many of freud's theories have been altered, rejected, proven wrong, proven outdated, proven to be full of misogyny, and proven incomplete. in my personal opinion, freud was a sexist hack, and there are thousands of psychologists (and women psychologists) out there who feel the same way and do not incorporate his methods - with the exception of the "talking method" which is just therapy's general structure - into their practice.
i'd like to recommend that you take a psychology course, for your own benefit and interest, that does not involve freud - humanistic, social, personality, abnormal, cognitive. open your mind to the ideas and theories of brilliant thinkers who aren't repressive, but inclusive.
i could give you a list of names a mile long of people who, simply put, have found beautiful and true connections between an individual and the society that influences them, without trying to mold the individual into some category of "normalcy." a "fit" person is a person who has a general sense of unity and harmony in their personality, who is happy with their own goals, place, ambitions, sense of self. a fit person is not a robot who does what they are told by society and functions at the lowest levels possible.
i feel the trouble you are having is with the general study of "abnormal" psychology. take an abnormal psychology course and educate yourself - you will find that the definition of abnormal does not involve people who want to be individual or eccentric or "themselves". it involves people whose lives are genuinely in distress because they are personally unhappy with the way their life is. therapy is a logical conclusion of abnormal psychology - and, depending on who you see, they all have different ideas of where the problem stems from. humanists believe that all people are inherently good, and some believe that it is society's poison that drives people away from their own inner goodness - which is an individual concept, not a societal one.
i'm not offended by anything you've said in your post. it's your personal opinion based on your own personal experience with psychologists. i just hope that perhaps you can explore the incredibly broad and, by the way, impossible to define by one person (or even a few people), field of psychology. and maybe find that there are some truly lovely ideas about the individual person, about the goodness of people in general, mixed in with the bad ones.