KAREN HORNEY TELLS WHAT FREE ASSOCIATION IS. BRACE YOURSELF–FREE ASSOCIATION TAKES GUTS!!

Study  Notes: 2008-07-14karen horneytells freeassociat_planetext.rtf KAREN HORNEY TELLS WHAT FREE ASSOCIATION IS.  #BRACE YOURSELF–FREE ASSOCIATION TAKES GUTS!! Yet here is the tool you need, if you are to go beyond simple cognitive problem analysis, and to launch a study of your own unconscious. This tool cannot be mastered overnight, think of it as learning to drive a car. With various bumps and traffic loads that shift unexpectedly, just when you were getting comfortable with the process. “..To associate freely means an endeavor on the part of the patient to ex-  press without reserve, and in the sequence in which it  emerges, everything that comes into his mind, regardless  of whether it is or appears trivial, off the point, incoher-  ent, irrational, indiscreet, tactless, embarrassing, humili-  ating. It may not be unnecessary to add that “everything”  is meant literally. It includes not only fleeting and diffuse  thoughts but also specific ideas and ‘memories-inci-  dents that have occurred since the last interview, mem-  ories of experiences at any period of life, thoughts about  self and others, reactions to the analyst or the analytical  situation, beliefs in regard to religion, morals, politics,  art, wishes and plans for the future, fantasies past and  present, and, of course, dreams. lt is particularly impor-  tant that the patient express every feeling that emerges,  such as fondness, hope, triumph, discouragement, re-  lief, suspicion, anger, as well as every diffuse or spe-  cihc thought. Of course the patient will have objections  to voicing certain things, for one reason or another, but  he should express these objections instead of using them  to withhold the particular thought or feeling.  Free association differs from our customary way of  thinking or talking not only in its frankness and unre-  servedness, but also in its apparent lack of direction.”

Self-Analysis a valid Mental Hygiene Procedure.

#A new form of Self-Analysis based on Hungarian Psychiatrist Lipot (Leopold) Szondi's Eight Every Human Is-- Psychiatric Conditions.
Normal is, just a balanced mixture of a gene passed ancestor mixed psychiatric conditions.

Required is a depth-Level Free Association skill that has to be learned, there is no magic self-improvement automatic anywhere, anyhow, much less a curing of serious disorders. This will not put mental health professional out of business. If you need them, you need them, for all the rest of us self-improvement, creating a better form of existence is a valid and desirable goal. It is when correctly understood a mental hygiene event, that can help replace hopelessness , disillusionments and make life more tolerable. A regular mind bath of Sorts.

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Complete free association with self-expression WOULD BE
a strange and mind cataclysmic event should that ever happen.
What is being suggested is you build up a skill level beyond where it is
at present. It is probable that if you already have an interest in your own mental life, you have better self-analytical abilities to start with than many. It My come as a surprise that when it comes to your own really personal content that you will not do as well as you expected. This does not mean the method is wrong or not for you. It is that that you have encountered resistance which moves just ahead, confusing and misdirecting you with not only with disguised primary process language as we learned from Freud's method of dream analysis. But also hidden ancestor set preferences healthy and unhealthy, normal and perverse. These later ones unravel slowly and become apparent with persistence. They are the hidden choice makers in love, friendship, symptom, and occupation.

If you truly achieving free association, of a depth kind, your content output is indeed closer to the dream and fantasy worlds than the one of your everyday mind usage. Depth level free association is not exactly a waking dream, because much of one normal personality shapes where and to what extent it may provide or block insight.

Everyone can be assumed to have resistances, which as vague as the term is, implies a force of a 'anti-insight' nature also that is a basic human event.

Happiness or unhappiness results in how one handles the effects of real life as internally measured against hidden repressed content of the personal unconscious (Freud) and the even less accessible ancestor set content and its recurring pressures. (Szondi) These pressures as proposed by Szondi are to be identified, in respect to their directional content in your choice making. That they are also psychiatric conditions in their exaggerated form is almost beside the point.
( a confusion that persists, even with those who write or talk on the subject).

It is actually that they represent forms, ancestor gene passed, as needs, strivings and drives, that belong naturally to a characteristic type whose cluster of effects resemble the certain psychiatric conditions used as a reference.

In this view, self-analysis is interminable and always present. Just as your drives are always present. However its inner connections and vicissitudes can and should be improved as best one can, thus is also a mental hygiene procedure.

advancing at a comfortable pace, yet systematic. Some will turn to forms of neurotic sabotage, such a perverse pleasure in reducing the promise of help to absurdity or claiming disillusionment, hopelessness and despair. The effect of which is temporally losing all gains in the insight effects. This kind of resistance becomes clear when episodically alcohol and drugs are used as if chemical hammers to make them feel better. One should note that the term 'backsliding' applies not only to alcoholics, but all the rest of us in respect to out desires for a better, happier self.

At some point an interrupted self analysis can recommence, often needed is a kind of warm up, that is less than depth level self-analysis, just to get the feel of this process again.

What where the outcome results for those many thousands who followed with dedication, the instructions provided the 1940’s best selling book, Self-Analysis.

What was the outcome results for those many thousands who followed with dedication, the instructions provided the 1940’s best selling book, Self-Analysis, by psychoanalyst Karen Horney?

In a subsequent book she mentions there where numerous reports, from persons who said that it had been of help to them. However, it is probable that of there were many others who did not feel helped or turned later to local therapists after become aware that neurosis had a psychological basis which could be explored and modified. What any particular person judges to have been of help is a very subjective matter. This author’s down to earth approach undoubtedly set the reader free from many popular misconceptions and distortions in wide circulation .

CONSEQUENCES OF NON-TREATMENT

New Memos on Depth Level Self-Analysis.

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