Robert

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In a message dated 7/8/04 5:12:45 AM,

Chinese Medicine writes:

 

<< for the record, that " someone " was me, and i must say in all candor that i

found Lon's

 

response to be strikingly cynical, especially for someone who a few

paragraphs

 

previously had admonished the rest of us against cynicism. to each his own

opinion,

 

but i wonder why the vitriol, and the rather broad brush. >>

 

Lon: I was making a point. As I said above to Jason, of course there are

therapists who do good work. As a whole though I find that the highest potential

of CM is 200 years ahead of analysis, or newage talk or " kick and scream "

therapy. " Go into your feelings " ----nothing could be less relevant to healing

the

generation of narcissists that go to a person for therapy in the first place.

The real healing lies in LESS SELF CONCERN not more. And, this perspective is

firmly rooted in the Daoist cannon that made the point that the purpose of

practice was to become free of the five element cycle (conditioned thought,

feeling, and weather) and NOT to go more deeply into it.-There is no cynicism

whatsoever in my post, just 20 years of watching people " work things out in

therapy " -From an absolute perspective process is irrelevant to meaningful

change, now.