Comments on: it started as a reply… http://www.michaelmallon.net/2009/11/09/it-started-as-a-reply/ a 26 year teenage existential dilemma... Thu, 24 Jun 2010 03:18:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Paul Ford http://www.michaelmallon.net/2009/11/09/it-started-as-a-reply/comment-page-1/#comment-21 Paul Ford Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:47:12 +0000 http://www.michaelmallon.net/?p=131#comment-21 A good psychopharmacology offers medications that improve function, not just anesthetize. SSRIs enable the brain to process information better, so that the person functions better. Opiates were all that 19th century druggists had in their pharmacopeia for pain, hence Marx's dictum about religion. I don't think that the net effect of what I have been advising is for you to conform to the APA's definition of the self. I am more in favor of Charles Taylor's or Victor Frankl's or Soren Kierkegaard's. A good psychopharmacology offers medications that improve function, not just anesthetize. SSRIs enable the brain to process information better, so that the person functions better. Opiates were all that 19th century druggists had in their pharmacopeia for pain, hence Marx’s dictum about religion.

I don’t think that the net effect of what I have been advising is for you to conform to the APA’s definition of the self. I am more in favor of Charles Taylor’s or Victor Frankl’s or Soren Kierkegaard’s.

]]> By: CousinCatherine http://www.michaelmallon.net/2009/11/09/it-started-as-a-reply/comment-page-1/#comment-20 CousinCatherine Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:09:07 +0000 http://www.michaelmallon.net/?p=131#comment-20 btw, I'm not surprised that you didn't get much from CBT - its very popular right now because it works well (ish) in a short term setting (10 sessions is considered very short term, and about what the typical HMO allows), and its easy for therapists to do because its pretty formulaic. I'd love to chat with you sometime about different theoretical approaches to therapy, either to help you find a better fit, or just because it happens to be interesting. btw, I’m not surprised that you didn’t get much from CBT — its very popular right now because it works well (ish) in a short term setting (10 sessions is considered very short term, and about what the typical HMO allows), and its easy for therapists to do because its pretty formulaic. I’d love to chat with you sometime about different theoretical approaches to therapy, either to help you find a better fit, or just because it happens to be interesting.

]]> By: Susan http://www.michaelmallon.net/2009/11/09/it-started-as-a-reply/comment-page-1/#comment-19 Susan Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:15:57 +0000 http://www.michaelmallon.net/?p=131#comment-19 Cath's right, we'll be here all along! Love you, Susan Cath’s right, we’ll be here all along!
Love you, Susan

]]> By: CousinCatherine http://www.michaelmallon.net/2009/11/09/it-started-as-a-reply/comment-page-1/#comment-18 CousinCatherine Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:55:13 +0000 http://www.michaelmallon.net/?p=131#comment-18 OK. Let us know when you need us. We'll be here. (unless I'm in the hospital having a baby, then you have to wait :) love,c OK. Let us know when you need us. We’ll be here. (unless I’m in the hospital having a baby, then you have to wait :)
love,c

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