Why High Potentials Keep Having Emotional Breakdowns
We’ve been looking at the problems of psychotherapy for treating the struggles caused by their growth trajectory. Let’s look at one of the causes for these struggles, the transition between one level of “capability of information processing” to another. These transitions re so painful that Julian Fairfled has said that some of them were emotional breakdowns for him. You’d be crazy to want to go through more of them than you have to.
Why is this important? I’m saying that these transitions cause psychological problems that lead many to psychotherapies. The psychotherapist rarely has an understanding of what is truly wrong and so treats symptoms that will never change the underlying problem. The way that you think is undergoing a fundamental change, you are losing the ways that worked and yet have not yet gotten new ways. It’s being lost.
Psychotherapist often simply treat various irrelevant issues until so much time has passed that the analysand has passed through the transition. He feels much better, hugs the therapist and everyone is happy.
Kind of.
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August 28, 2008 No Comments
