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Protestantism & Freud – the disjointed roots of America by William James

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Protestantism & Freud – the disjointed roots of America by William James

Freud's emotionalism gave me concern for I considered him somewhat of a religious fanatic, operating outside of religion's conventional context. In many ways he was a shaman, born in the "wrong" country, twice as jealous of his own "masculine characteristics" because he sensed within himself the "perverse" intuitive rushes and psychic leanings that he feared and believed could undermine the personal authority of the ego and the mass authority of the state.

Gestalt2018-01-05T16:41:00-07:00October 5th, 2013|Seth - Spirituality|

Somatic Psychotherapy – a new paradigm

Somatic Psychotherapy - a new paradigm Einstein and his therapist Cognitive behavioral therapy has been the most dominant form of psychotherapy for the last 100 years deriving from Freud. Recent advances in neuropsychology however have come to question the very foundations of this understanding of human psychology. Somatic psychology takes nearly the opposite approach of cognitive behavioral psychology and rewrites many of our basic assumptions on how we think human beings work at the most basic level. Somatic psychotherapy is [...]

Gestalt2018-04-19T16:25:07-06:00May 24th, 2013|Personal Development Psychology|

The downfall of Darwanism and Freud – towards a new psychology

The downfall of Darwanism and Freud - towards a new psychology "Now: The beliefs of [Charles] Darwin and of [Sigmund] Freud alike have formed together to give you a different screen. Experience is accepted and perceived only as it is sieved through that screen. If Christendom saw man as blighted by original sin, Darwinian and Freudian views see him as part of a flawed species in which individual life rests [...]

Gestalt2018-06-14T00:02:39-06:00January 17th, 2013|Seth - Spirituality|