#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.
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