Posted by alexandra_k on August 30, 2005, at 18:17:44
In reply to Re: Progress with the Ego States... » alexandra_k, posted by Pfinstegg on August 30, 2005, at 17:38:22
> Remember about Freud- he initially thought trauma played the major role in psychiatric illness,
yeah. i guess some people told him some fairly personal things...
... and then he generalised from *some people* to *all people* (as you do...)
and so then he starts up with:
'i know something has happened and if you don't tell me something pretty f*cking juicy you will never get better'...
... and then later on wonders why he is getting so many unsubstantiated accounts from *some* people. Generalising again from *some* to *all* (as you do) he concludes that:
>it was a FANTASY of sexual trauma that made people(mostly women) ill.
Does the sequence of that make sense?
And the moral of the story is...
> most therapists today think that real trauma-whether by emotional neglect, physical, emotional or sexual abuse- is a, or even the, major cause of emotional illness in adults.
Yes. Though to insist upon this in *all* cases is to encourage the development of false memories.
Thats why I don't think too much of considering history of trauma to carry a heavy explanatory load.
IMO diathesis can go a long way...
Make sense?
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