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Anamnesis?
A way for healing...
To
coil/embroil reflects to involve:is it
the contrary ofto develop?
At a good side: only wrapped buds
canthrive; and
alsoto uncoil previously embroiled
matterscan
assist development
once restored
past. On the contrary-
at a
bad side - synonyms of to involve areto embroil/mislead
meaning
alsoTO DECEIVE.
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From
children of
YESTERDAY to
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Synonyms and
Contraries Dictionary by Niccolò Tommaseo, where
on can
find - with many and impressing explanations - the world to develop
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contrary
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embroil. It
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To
coil/embroil reflects to
involve:is it
the contrary ofto
develop?At a
good side: only wrapped
buds canthrive;but
alsoto uncoil embroiled matterscan
assist development
once restored
past; whilst- at
a
bad side - a synonym of involved is embroil/misleadmeaning
alsoFRAUD.
An Italian article
regarding anamnesis
with
a corresponding title -Quando la cartella clinica è
terapeutica...Spazio
a
chi scrive[Space for the writer]
in the
November
2004 issue of Magazine Torino
Medica
(Turin Medical Journal) as
auto-presentation regarding
publications
and presupposed methodology. The article was however
subject
to space restrictions and was therefore not as exhaustive as the
author would have liked. For this reason the
enlarged
and clarified version can be presented as these two files/chapters
Italian and English: Quando la
cartella
clinica è terapeutica...andthis
one Anamnesis?
A way for
healing.... with a similar content of this
file/chapter - appeared in
the section
But
many years before,
some scripts appeared
currently from 1960s in the magazine Giornale
dei Genitori
(Parents'
journal)
as column titledChildhood:
a very difficult job,
together with the fruit of a continuing collaboration with Montessori's
Birth Center, and also with other
magazines, besides as
participation in
various Conferences. Gradually some of them develop into new ones
and/or
became chapters of books.
Children?
Parents? and their
milieu?
Reciprocally these topics -
decidedly derived
from
direct CONCRETE experienceand
never only from simple theoretical studies - could have given enlarged
towards
more precise way of observation and synthesis: strictly intended to evolve
CIRCULARLY straight and
incessantly developing more incisive
observation
and consequent explanation of facts.
Childhood:
a very
difficult job?
Individuality, development, evolution?
It is more than "banal"
- rather frankly obvious - that parenthood
should be considered a far-reaching and very
difficult job. But not every people does be or will become parent or at
least has to "manage" own or others' children. (look also on the
Swiss site ASPI,
and/or write
to GeniAl)
Instead infancy
- the
impressive Latin word infans
means not able to speak
- and childhood
are or
were the absolutely unavoidable and basic steps for EVERY ONE:towards
their whole existence. Therefore compared with the difficult and
responsible - secoundary - parents'job,
how
more momentous is the primary
so often more difficult - childhood's
job! Therefore if often urgent is to help parents, how
more
fruitful
is to help every
one at least to a better knowedge of this prime,
crucial job!
(Look at the original dedication
of Antoine
de Saint Exupéry'sLe
petit prince; read
thougtfully Janusz
Korczak's books - at first When
I Am Little Againand 'The
Child's Right to
Respect')
The
tree is a convenient metaphor, but many other factors can be
considered
when referring to human existence and to every human activity: every
element
of human society is certainly not monolithic like a tree neither in
space nor much less in
time.
Easier to use for
explanation because their fixed being, trees can be
proposed
as a visual
metaphor to simplify the factors
which underpin every variable existence, including human.
... too puzzling. Not ever we
are able
for this task....
1. Individuality:
possibility and difficulty present or absent in the environment:
ROOTS and the EARTH from which the real plant can
well or defectively come to happen upon.
2. Development:
with its regularity and concretefirmness the TRUNK
strengthen itself growing on concentric year by year
progressive ring-shaped adds.
3. Evolution:
almost infinite in its differentiation and expansion: BRANCHES,
LEAVES, FLOWERS, FRUITS, SEEDS....
The tree,
like every
living
being which “grows” mostly or only in width, must
be rooted
well
in the ground
and must be surrounded by a nutritionally and climactically
favourable environment
in order to reach its full completeness.
However,
the animal
and much more the human being does not only “grow” but
“develop”:
phenomena which follow well defined PHASES,
as
predisposed paths towards changes (plural!) in a biologically
determined sequence, guided by a typical rhythm of physiological
developments modulated both by tempo and modality,
regardless
of all episodic changes that every true existence goes
through.
warnsagainst
episodic descriptions: not
meaningful but silly over-sentimental, empty as
generalizations,
and then capable
only of impeding
any
recognition of the concrete connections between cause
and effect;
protectsagainst
ways of thinking
unrealistic and dangerous: themselves cause of a direct
“violence” (this was the basic argument expounded
in the
conferences
on Violence against the child);
defies
and advancesagainst
the
scorn and
the repudiation of MEMORY;
maintains
finally IN
FAVOR
of completeness
of FOUR dimensional beings:
of TIME
and not only in a
poor and static three
dimensional concept of space.
In fact, if a mature
human being has to
become so much powerful and versatile each stage of
this
development
should leave behind - like a lesson well assimilated - a solid
imprint.
This integral fulfilment asks that each step of his/her completing
could receive an acknowledgement of the typical, concrete
and precise psychological and/or environmental NEEDS
(n.b. needs not “desires”), an acknowledgement
really active
during each precise phase of his/her
journey.
Harmonious in its typical
discontinuity
each complex
sequence
manifests
itself as physical changes in the body and, in concurrence with this,
the
prevalence of certain functions and relations, affection and feelings,
activities and preferences... Also - phase by phase - this occurs
to more easily activate a fitting constellation
of instinct:
a
very
mighty extra-personal power arousing at times to connect
individuals
with environmental elements. Each
one of these groups of
coordinating
factorsconstellation:
but compared with a musical
complex it is worthwile not to change the by now classic
term complex
given by Freud more than a Century ago.
In humans in particular this
preparation
is lengthy and arduous. To a so extremely complicatedpast
and present is
intrinsic a peculiar
fragility (why then this title: Childhood
a very
difficult job?),
since that "complex job" is so much more difficult than that scholastic
preparation of material/learning, both not attainable without
adequate
contribution from outside. scientifically is
named network
of connections between
A
brief
essential
semantic
note is to be recommended for the terms development and evolution, a
suggestion so much
required to be shared not only in this file/chapter but also - exactly
quoted - in other ones. Evolution
means something more broad in term on
space and
time than development:
only entities, already present and still "involved"
as buds,
can develop,
while after every moment the ambiance's
stimuli
can modify and also enhance every life.
If every moment living beings
have to act for
maintain the internal homeostasis, nevertheless "well
built", "well developed" sturdy organisms and minds can not only
"accept" but also make
the best on integrating themselves with the new situations: they can
not only "learn by experience" since even transform every occurrence
in great creative forces which can promote -
one could
almost say GENERATE
-
evolution
in new and totally unexpected directions. See according with also the
concept of resilience.
But going again back to the simple regular to sprout: how should
"uncoil" its passages in a favorable coordination - preordained even if
instead so "embroiled" in their coming next each other apparently
discordant - without demanding, external
variant, if
not
"acrobatic", assistance?
Precise and mutable
support systems are then needed for each phase, but
they should
themselves
be flexible in responding to apparent irregularity, and
concentrate
carefully on the precise galaxy of emotion
undergone at that
moment. Already from its title, Childhood:
times of mutability, describes and
clarifies the
physiological - carried out or disturbed - changes in expansion
and
differentiation
from the point of view of the developing subject, whilst Domestic
chores. Ergonomy and Psychology of a REAL work
considers
the adult protagonist, contributor and participator in these
developmental stages. However to be "adult" means to have
been
child: not only assistance,
home
work and children rearingare
directly concerned with the development of the successive
generation, but as well with the good or bad possibilities to have
undergone personal past phase,
or rather with the "order or disorder" of the preceding
generations.
(This
picture
has to be
imagined
as a round, revolving "merry-go.round" of kids and pets not as a
flat, linear outline.)
From
children
of
yesterday to adults
of
tomorrow...?
The process of
development is so
varied in its multiple integrations and depends on
such a
precarious
balancing of body's physiology and completeness that it can
easily
be castrated,
moreover if "polluted" by an alike previously mutilated environment. In
connecting to rearing children obliged
times-linked
relationships
- so changeable
and overloaded with emotion, or better merging on
the main
field of generative instincts
- each one
of us is anyhow an unavoidable determiner of future scenarios:
unpredictable and collective. The gradual development, the
accumulation
of each preparatory stage and the strengthening of the ground for its
successor
can, however, easily become mutilated in direct or indirect ways,
leading
to real emotional castration
of
the single individual or of entire
populations. Childhood: a very
difficult
job?
The galaxy of emotions which
mark
phase by phase of development are particularly varied and often
shifting
in the orbital of apparent contraries. These powerful yet
fragile
elements
and the extremely lengthy preparatory stages, seemingly discordant
- yet well coordinated
by nature
- are exactly those which serve to
integrate
gradually the power of the individual with discordant environmental factors
which can be simplified on three orbits
following each other towards superior steps: eitherpersonal,
or regardingdeeds, rules,
facts, ideas, "things", or elsepeople's
relations and integration, "sentiments" and dealing.
This difficult balance requires at the same moment a precise, powerful
and well established external support system which centres on these
emotional
states, activated moment by moment and, above all, phase by phase. To
an
inattentive or forestalled observer these necessary delicate passages
may
escape detection and it in a way that unfortunately too often happens:
in this way which
could seem insignificant if not subliminal, crucial
moments are
ignored
or blocked, leaving further cascading
consequence. Thus extremely grave future
consequences tangled up in - absurd - inextricable
complications, can be induced almost inadvertently, almost
unconsciously
not
by colossal errors, not by cynical ill-will but merely by the
lack
of
swift help given to ignored phases of development and by lack
of
management
of unaccepted emotions.
Unrecognised and/or unfulfilled
precise
contingent needs tend, then, to leave in their aftermath a precise,
determined
emotional incompleteness
and/or
deviation, not only in the
present
but with the above mentioned cascading effect on
the further
whole of individual’s
existence,
producing monstrosity
- analogous to the disfunction of the organizer-inducer
of the anatomic development in embryo described by Spemann and Mangold.
All these issues emphasize an
united
discourse insistently proposed, highlighting
concepts
of beginnings, of successive passages, of phases of development,
of past,
present, future, organizers and cones of expansion
which
integrate
and interact. Also insistently underlined however is how, when these
phases
meet obstacles, become vicious
circles, which spin around themselves also blocking
successive
phases, if not continuing to aggravate towards pathological
directions, branching
off from
the single individual and
overcoming
- in the present, but often well in to the future - entire existences:
the affected subject and many around him.
As already outlined above, in every
instantLIFE
- in
capital letters and merely as itself as the contrary of "dead" being - mustbe
underlined by the
particular chemical-physicalcontinual
changes in its internal state, leaded also by emotions as
an
important foreground of general reality of living
being. "Emotions" are - by actual word definition - variable and also
numerous; usually they
follow one after the other in contrasting manner in the same
individual
body: in a matter of minutes
this kaleidoscope of states alternate and often oppose
“mood”,
“attention” and also every psychosomatic
form in interaction into
individuals
themselves and between individuals and their complete environment. Any
way all this does not frame anambivalentsimultaneous
ambiguity than
a "tumult" into which emotional
states
separate each other by short, but not null delaying interval, initially
uncoiled but prepared to be solved and recognized. Then
instead of ambiguous uncertainty it should have a powerful function: it
should just heighten
tensions,
which as elevated potential
differences change into available hightened real voltageaccumulators of
energy.
But not ever it is feasible to
engender more power, rather and on the contrary
when discordant emotions are experienced as subjectively insoluble
contradictions, as well when possible high-tension improvement muddles
in an inextricable coil, then this differences of voltage can't be
beard - even till stirring real seizures.
Internal,
unbearable conflicting “emotional experiences” moreover lasting from
childhood, as at any age to try to
artificially improve a not ready body for exceptional performances very
often not only act against useful
differences on voltage, butinstead this
to increase the potential energy explode in manifestation of
possibly serious “psychic” symptoms,
like anxiety or panic attacks or even fainting, and also in real
dysfunction
if not harm - till "broken heard death" - to internal organs: arteries,
heart, digestive, endocrine systems, etc.
Not only emotions exist however:
the
human being is also aided in his interaction with his environment by
way
of INSTINCT,
a powerful biological
chemical-endocrine faculty (and not only), triggered by stimuli
received
by way of immediate sensorial reaction, a faculty which, compared to
the
“emotions” can
affect a much larger scale of space and time and provoke
much more intense reactions. The instincts are an immensely powerful
system
for the protection of individual existence and/or the species as they effect
the action of coordinated and lasting hormones and not
only the
more
ephemeral neuromediators
and neuromodulators.
The endocrine
system is
complicated
and delicate and the unloading of energy - electromagnetic etc - once
activated
modifies every surrounding factor. If the instincts in action can cause
enormous changes in one’s way of being and situate
oneself
dynamically
in reality, they can either proceed in an appropriate way
or in
a
chaotic,
destructive way - see, for example how the same instinct either “saves”
or “panics”, “to die from a heart attack” and certain miraculous
survivals.)
In sum up, every living being’s
emotions
and instincts construct around himself what generically one can call
“atmosphere”:
in every moment - both in adults and children - this is a transforming
factor, which either disturbs
or acts as a link
in the vast and beneficial chain of communication.
And then: aroused and
continually
modified either by endogenic conditions or exogenic stimuli, the
emotions
follow on from each other and intersect not in hypothetical ways but by
expressing themselves through their precise
chemical and energetic
bases:
also these, like their name implies, in continuous modulated movement.
To specify again: every existence continually develops many ways to
interact
with
the immediate present and in varied and continuous correlation with the
environment, as already mentioned above recognisable even by their
chemical
structure as reliable “scientific” evidence of internal homeostasis.
But
not only this: alongside the chemical-physical visceral system of
dynamic
adjustment to the environment lie other relational systems - movements
and sounds - which integrate every living presence. In particular in
human
beings exist words,
exists to
speak a special and sophisticated instrument for
the
transmission
of information: even not only for "external" trasmission..
A fruitful fusion of mind
and body,
which continually
transforms the capacity to sense emotions and feelings, can then turn
everything
into true EXPERIENCE:
the only way to
generate
timely fitting personal CHOICES.
But
every real BEING
isn't an isolated entity:
a
wrapping unabridged environment continually is moving around and
interfering with. The common place description of Instinct
is
almost ever belittling these extra
personal
forces considered instead only from a restrict behavioral point of
view. On the contrary INSTINCTS
as
mighty powers support - in not castrated organisms
- the vital
possibility to handle very timely also special happenings; instincts
have
the MAIN DYNAMIC TASK to connect immediately straight away the
individual, its feelings and actions with the environmental stimuli.
Instinct is the inherent disposition of
a livingorganism toward a particular behavior
... Instinct provides a response to external stimuli, which
moves an organism to action....
Any way if Consciousness
and memory
file/chapter is so strictly related to this one - to have even some
quotes shared together, besides just on regard of these problems - Sublimations:
visual
schemes and scientific explanation
outspreadly defines from a
different point of view and with more meticolous exposure the modes,
ways and patterns through which every living being interacts with and
into the sourronding milieu.
EVER
had a feeling come over you that you just can't explain? Like suddenly
getting all warm and fuzzy when you meet someone for the first time,
while somebody else who looks just as good leaves you cold? Or
experiencing a sudden pang of fear on a plane even though you're
totally at ease with flying? These seemingly unrelated and
illogical human reactions may have a reasonable explanation after all,
although one that not everyone will be happy to hear. They may be reactions to other
people's pheromones
Other factors exist to
complicate matters,
atmospheres and relationships such as present contingencies
and
life in all its versatility and wealth of continuous variation and episodic
change.
In each living being chemical
and
energetic expressions of biological, powerful, too quick to become
conscious INSTINCTS
and EMOTIONS
manifest themselves not only in gut reactions and
experiential
modifications but in objective factors as well: then surely not to be
confused - as often does common place people - with the simple so
called intuition,
only a quick and ready
insight,
a somewhat more speedy as usual possibility to conclude thoughts and to
recall deeds to mind.
The main
powers given by instincts
and the antennae assured by emotions
are not
only
behavioral, not only psychosomatic
but also “somato-relational”. It is therefore inevitable, in circular
and
intersecting connection that each body receives and exchanges, that
each body exudes emissions into the surrounding environment;
uncontrollable
emissions transmitting volatile chemicals calledpheromonesas
well as other
variants in magnetic field etc. transforming
each simple living presence into an important
factor of
effective causality: thus perhaps the
more important
issue regards not the emission
of
pheromones
but the receptivity and
responsiveness
in the receiving organisms.
It is then to point out that emotional
doesn't mean “inconsistent”, a state to undervalue or
ridicule:
the emotions and their derivatives and effects are not adjectives
meaning simple definitions, but are, in their concrete
substantiality true nouns,
which indicate the emergence
and
variation of ar least
concrete
chemical molecules not hidden inside
the organism but spread around. These chemical expressions of internal
states have often a short duration, a not so currently definite smell
and so then often are difficult to be considered: notwithstanding -
noticed or disregarded: why even people can use to smell as
synonym ofto
foresee? - they are not only typically vital
manifestations
of the visceral-somatic sphere but their activation colors and gives
meaning
to every moment of global existence, also if as a rule far from
perceptive
consciousness. In an individual these internal autogenous
transformations and
triggered environmental modifications, gained by means of a well
refined
sensitivity - always been present or coming from a recovered
awareness - can, or better should, transform every one of life's
episodes
into lasting EXPERIENCE
and permit a whole consciousness to expand till accumulate into wisdom.
Any way
at the same time chemical emission of volatile embodiment of instincts
and of emotions as well as every
physical change determined by other
variants in
magnetic field
etc
into the surrounding environment transforms involuntary every simple
living
presence
into an important
source of change which should be taken into account.
Thus every living organism is at
every
moment - too often without being aware of it - a greater or lesser
disturbing
factor
to those around him. On the other hand the organism can become part of
a vast communicative chain mentioned previously: with his
or her
emotions
each one contributes towards the building and redistribution of
that
which we generically call atmosphere;
that diffuse atmosphere that
is
the base of the oral complex:
that
“oral complex” which can be
summarily
exemplified by those words which refer to “entrances”, “acquisitions”, completeness
and also the whole series of words, verbs and
nouns
in which are presented concepts of togetherness,
of diffusion,
and
with prefixes such as “con”… “syn…”, or with terms containing the idea
of “fusion” , such as the previously given “diffusion”.
The
idea of pheromones
doesn't be a mere if not fantastic hypothesis: this is demonstrated
straight away by their extensive commercialisation:
to
produce perfumes
of high sexual impact, (see for example that cited
in Athena
Institute)
in agriculture
to produce “organic” insecticides and
antiparasites
in veterinary
science to produce real medicines, for example
physiological
tranquilizers
to control stress in domestic cats and dogs.
The new weapons use chemical
substances
generated by the insects themselves. Unlike conventional
pesticides, the chemicals, known as pheromones, do not damage other
animals, nor do they pose health risks to people. Pheromones
specifically disrupt the reproductive cycle of harmful insects. They
also can be used to lure the pests into traps that help farmers track
insect population growth and stages of development. In this way,
farmers can reduce the amount of insecticide they need – spraying only
when the insects are in a vulnerable stage or when their numbers exceed
certain levels.
Pheromones
are chemicals emitted by
living organisms to send messages to
individuals
of the same species. The class most widely explored are the sex
pheromones
produced by female moths which are used to attract conspecific males
for
mating. Bombykol, the sex pheromone of the silkmoth, was first
synthesized
in 1959. The first pheromone ever identified (in 1956) was a powerful
sex
attractant for silkworm moths. A team of German researchers worked 20
years
to isolate it.... When at last they obtained a chemically pure
pheromone,
they named it "bombykol" for the silkworm moth, Bombyx mori from
which
it was extracted. It signaled, 'come
to me!'
from great
distances. Evidence
clearly indicates that a pheromone system exists,
in insects at
least. The question of whether the basic chemical communication exists
in mammals has been harder to determine. An increasing number of
studies,
however, is showing that pheromones play a role in many species,
including
humans. The discoveries may provide a better understanding of mammalian
communication, and also could lead to the development of new types of
birth
control or treatments to boost fertility. In dealing
with
mammals,
however,
scientists faced an entirely different problem. Compared to insects,
whose
behavior is stereotyped and highly predictable, mammals are
independent,
ornery, complex creatures. Their behavior varies greatly, and its
meaning
is not always clear.... Established in 1996, when
little
was known about human pheromones, this site continues to serve as a
comprehensive
information resource for general and for scientific knowledge. No
other domain provides you with all the information you need, and
pheromones.com
will continue to provide you with all the latest information about
human
pheromones.
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Scientific
evidence
that supports the
concept of human pheromones.
Scientific
information
about human
pheromones, with many meaningfull and concise interpretations of recent
research findings.
Nosy
Neurones: a
tale of sex and the sense of smell In our daily lives we are
surrounded by
evidence of the powerful link
between our sexuality and the sense of smell. Think only of the
multi-billion pound perfume and deodorant industries! It appears that
our reproductive processes are manipulated, not only by these expensive
artificial odours, but by nature's own airbourne chemical signals,
known as pheromones. In a recent article in Nature, scientists have
shown that human pheromones can alter the timing of ovulation in women.
But what is the basis of the association between our fertility and the
sense of smell. For an explanation we must look at the development of
the brain centres that regulate these two functions
I°
Joined Congress of Società Italiana e Francese di
Psicoprofilassi Ostetrica Venezia 26-30 Maggio 1976:
Pheromones
in Human
Gynaecology
This
essay
proposes only to draw
attention
to the question of pheromones in the human sphere; an argument full of
questions and and subject to varied explanation and expansion.
(Pheromones
are those hormonal
substances which chief characteristic is not
to act “within” the organism secreting them but on relational
behavior and on some physiological balances in other organisms, reaching
them in infinitesimal doses and moreover in a volatile
state.)
The ethological study of animals
has
developed in two different directions; that of aggression and of sexual
function, above all female, including that which runs in conjunction
with
the latter, the arousal of the male. Few studies have explored other
fields e.g. “learning”.
Regarding female sexuality the
case-study
of female rats bred in complete absence of male
rats is
particularly
demonstrative; only minute traces of masculine urine
is
necessary to recover a normal oestrus, fertility and sexual “purpose” -
meaning heterosexual - in rats otherwise “condemned” to a complete
homosexuality
and the lack of an oestrus cycle. Or, still in female rats, the spontaneous
expulsion of fetuses and the reappearance of oestrus
in
pregnancy
set off by the presence of a more “preferred new fertilizer"
male. (As described in a conference by D.Mainardi)
Few studies on the human field
have
been published up to now, the most noted being those regarding
female sexuality: the synchronization of menstrual cycles
in
women
living together, for example students in American colleges who share
rooms.
Personal observations conducted
over
some (five) years can be added to this well observed phenomenon of
human
menstrual synchronization (corroborated by the synchronization of
oestrus
in female animals). I refer to the synchronization of menstrual cycles
in myself and my daughter over a period in which we passed a certain
number
(average three-four) hours together each day collaborating
together in a communal activity (I have the impression that this was a determining
factor); and vice-versa to their
de-synchronization when our
occupations diverged. Also, in the animal sphere, the synchronization
of
oestrus in my two female dogs, despite variations in the frequency of
oestrus
(intervals of between six to eight months). In this case the interval,
constant and regular - of six to eight days between the start of
oestrus
in the older dog and that of the younger - gives weight to the
hypothesis
that the “induction” in the younger was the work of “pheromones”
emitted
by the older dog.
I do not present in
this
document an experimental work and therefore do not wish to expatiate
with
tables documenting the chronology of these pheromones, but for using
this
opportunity to propose
various questions and hypotheses.
Sexuality, aggression, learning
etc:
it is probable that these substances have vast
repercussions
on all
aspects
of physiological behavior and relationships in the biological organism
and within social gatherings. But why
do
we know so little about them? What inhibition or
lack of
curiosity
has impeded us from bettering our knowledge through
technical
verification? Could it perhaps be due to the fact that their
effect
is felt directly in the centers of the brain which are home to a
protopatic
sensitivity, and being triggers of vegetative reflexes, we are not
stimulated
to take them into epicritic (and therefore “critical-rational”)
consideration
as we do with visual
and auditory
sensations? Or - mostly -
are we not
yet culturally
permitted to take them into consideration, because if
we admit
the
presence of these ways
of communication,
of involuntary interpersonal messages, we must also accept the impossibility
of intentionally falsifying
them?
(Won't this be the reason
for the real phobia against body odor
and the huge
market in deodorants?)
Addressing the female genital
apparatus
and its functions: could not the functions of the peri-vaginal glands
(as
well as all the apocrine glands of the body) be revalued in the light
of
this?
Could not the inhibition - maybe
for
psycho-relational motives - against the expulsion of secretion, having
a pheromonic effect be amongst the causes of bartolinite?
Furthermore,
as the menstrual or oestral cycle can be “directed” by another’s female
cycle, or oestrus induced by the odour of masculine urine, could not human
fertility, in its various stages, be conditioned
by the
influence
of pheromones in the environment, male or female?
To return to general problems:
what
could be the influence of substances - alimentary, voluptuary,
medicinal,
contraceptive etc - introduced into the body on the conditioning
of other organisms via thus modified pheromones?
What is the
effect of cosmetics, detergents, localized contraceptives, pollution
etc.
even as artificial
pheromones
or disturbing agents?
To cite an interesting
example: a normal insecticide spray with a pyrethrum base, though with
a propellant and perfume not specifically named, sprayed on my female
dog
provoked erotic attraction and excitement in all the male dogs
encountered,
as if the bitch was on oestrus. I am sorry not to have been able to
carry
out a further experiment to see if the pheromone effect resulted from
that
one spray can and not from others of the same brand and type. Another
episode concerns instead newborn babies about three days or so: all
these
babies in a hospital nursery burst into tears in unison at the moment
when
the floors began to be waxed for the Easter holiday cleaning.
And finally: perhaps the
more important
issue regards not the emission
of
pheromones
but the receptivity and
responsiveness
in the receiving organism: therefore what influence can the endocrine
state,
the emotional state, stress, pharmaceuticals and socio-affective
maturity
or immaturity have in this sense? The Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2004: for
their
discoveries of odorant receptors and the organization of the olfactory
systemRichard
Axel b.1946
1/2 of the
prize USA Columbia
University New
York, NY, USA; Linda B. Buck
b.1947 1/2 of the prize USA Howard Hughes
Medical
Institute; University
of Washington; Fred
Hutchinson Cancer
Research Center Seattle, WA,
USA
Anthropology
of the individual - term proposed for a new field,
makeing an
interdisciplinary
approach to the human individual, in his whole somatic, psychic and
spiritual
complexity. We have built a nuber of models for the human being: the
systemic
model (Fig.1),
the interface modelling (Fig.2)
and (Fig.3),
the integronic model (Fig.4:
look below). Body aura -
universal and
fundamental form of existence, which accompanies the material existence
and the fields existence (gravitational and electromagnetic field). We
have approached the scientific study using the electrographic method of
the living and non-living bodies, and we have established a semiology
for
the electromagnetic signals appearing in the bodies' auras. Information of the aura
- fundamental property, characterizing the bodies aura - present
everwhere
-, similar to the bodies mass which characterizes
the quality
of
substance, and similar to the energy, which
characterizes the
quality
of field. The aura's information shows up as archetypal information. We
have highlighted the following archetypal forms: globular,
ramnified,
radial and floral. Integronics - this
is a
name proposed in 1977 for a new theoretical
field which explains our experimental
results, and studies the general laws of the
coexistence of the
three fundamental forms: the substance, the field and the
aura. Electrography -
method of
scientific research (Romanian invention, Fl.I.Dumitrescu, 1975,
completed
by C. Guja, 1977-2002), used for the systematic study of body auras.
The
synthesis of our results has lead to human bioelectric types, with
adaptive
roles, similar to the adaptive roles of the blood
groups.
To call
emotions
by their authentic
name...
The real meaning of an
instrument such as words
lies - or perhaps only should lie (?!?) - in the
transformation
of things, facts,
situations of any type - including the selfsame emotions - from
concrete
to abstract, from imprecise, “plodding” concreteness to
ethereal
and
effortless ways of expression and of reciprocity, not only easily
interchangeable
but also, in actual fact, capable of being precisely defined.
For all these reasons practical and/or
scientific
medicine cannot disregard or set aside the necessity for a
very
accurate anamnestic understanding of the present and the past (however
remote) history of the patient in question. Here we further
explore
the title Anamnesis?
A way
for healing... and link to the
sources
and the aims of the books presented in the site and of the site itself
with its dynamic refreshing in updating progress.
The aim of words, even if often
disregarded
is - or should be(!) - that of giving
a name
to everything. Starting paradoxically
from
this new abstract basis, to give proper "names" can restore a renewed,
precise concreteness: this is the great
therapeutic gift offered bycase
history, by the simple
taking of anamnesis:
since a "banal" collecting of information, linking all to exact names, can
gradually
make possible the expression of - or even give rebirth to - complete relived
experiences.
-
I
know
what I want to say,
but I
can’t manage to say it
is the most common
explanation. On the contrary:
- How
are
harmfulall
those feelings which remain inside to rot, those deep-rooted thoughts
without
voice!
Writes Marco
Lodoli in the Repubblica
newspaper of Tuesday
19th
April 2005 page 21
Comment: The
stolen language…:How
much are harmful those
feelings remaining
inside
to rot, those deep-rooted thoughts without voice!
If accepted
during an impartial hearing, interior occurrences insteadto
remain
inside to rot can, gradually, come out from
the depths
of
feeling
and memory, finding with their true NAME their exact
place in
existence
and in the wealth
of lived experience. But development
has
an obliged natural
own intrinsic regularity, a basic regularity which can be found in
another
enormous gift: the past
gathered
to live into MEMORY,
into this well
organized "hyperlink gallery" of gathered life
stories
but also in sum up where to reach a prepared deposit
also for only
presumed, not yet realized life agenda
necessary occurrences. At this point intensive and not
only psychological changes can take
place: often so rapid and intense to seem…. “magical”.
The
loosening of accumulated tensions in deep-rooted thoughts without
voice is - however certainly not “magic”! - when finally
the
“recovered
voice” is transformed into a recognition and a restitution
of the true
and proper identity and of the true and proper - present
and
past -
“presence
in the world!”
If this instrument of clarification and of
condivision
is undervalued it would take away the basic efficacy of Medicine as a
practical
profession and the scientific needs of medical research, but blind
faith
in this method without cautious attention could give illusory
and
deceptive
results. Such enormous practical implement could in fact be in vain if
the
speaker
is incapable to use it appropriately or from defects in translation
in
the listener. Words are used for pointing out "deeds" but not ever
these deeds
are
the same for the interlocutors: every one believes to be
understood or
to
understand when instead from this deafs' speech rises a series of
misjudgements and fake promises. Besides: since words
are instruments controlled by “will”, it is possible to
tame
them either by the speaking, maybe lying person, or by the almost on
purpose deaf listening interlocutor: it is to say that language not
only should be
a valid instrument to unveil, uncoil, helping to develop, but alike it
may be as much badly
managed, badly interpreted if not also - on purpose - used for misrepresentation
or deception [a synonym of involved isn't imbroglio/misleadingmeaning
alsoTO DECEIVE/FRAUD?] With this wealth
of
diverse
views the
title Anamnesis? A way for healing...
and the logical
reasoning
and underlying multiple facts, the true motivation of these pages are
further
explained.
CANDACE
B. PERT
is a research
professor in the department of physiology and biophysics at Georgetown
University Medical Center in Washington, DC.. She discovered the opiate
receptor in 1972 as a graduate student in Solomon Snyder'slaboratory.
She
then pioneered the field of neuropeptide receptors demonstrating that
the
classical view of separation of the hormonal, immune and neural system
does not exist at the regulatory level of our physiology.Your
Body Is Your Subconscious Mindby
Candace Pert, Ph.D.Review and Excerpt Your
brain is not in
charge. This revelation by Dr.
Candace
Pert challenges conventional science - andeveryone
interested
in total wellness
- to
reconsider how our bodies think, feel, and heal. As the leading
pioneer
in a radical new science of life, thisbestselling
author and world
class neuroscientist gives us an inside look at the molecular
drama
being staged within every cell of the human body and aglimpse
into the future of
medicine.
In this two-cassette series with studyguide, Your Body Is Your
Subconscious
Mind, Dr. Pert describes in her ownwords
her
extraordinary
search
for the grail of the body’s inborn intelligencewith.
Dr. Pert
first came to
prominence
when she dazzled the scientific community with her discovery of the
opiate
receptor in 1972. But this breakthrough event was only the beginning of
a uniquely productive and oftencontroversial
career. The
Opiate Receptor.The
discovery of proteins
called opiate
receptors in the brain showed howmorphine
and heroin affect
the
body and established an important new method for studying drugs. This
led
to the discovery of
opiate-like chemicals
produced
in the body that control pain, immune responses,
and other
body
functions. These findings promise to revolutionize pain relief and may
lead to improved treatments for diseases ranging from alcoholism to
rheumatoid
arthritis. Humans have used opiate drugs such as morphine and heroin
for
thousands of years to lessen pain and produce euphoria. These drugs,
originally
derived from the juice of the opium poppy, have many benefits - but
they
also produce sobering side effects like addiction. In recent years,
however,
basic research on opiate drugs has led to many discoveries that could
revolutionize
not only pain relief but also the understanding of addiction,
reproduction,
and the immune system. Most recent advances stem from groundbreaking
research
first published in 1973, when scientists discovered the brain's opiate
receptor and established the basic technique for studying brain
receptors
still used today. The opiate receptor and other brain receptors
are proteins located on the surfaces of nerve cells,
or
neurons. The
brain works through neurons communicating with each other by releasing
signaling chemicals called neurotransmitters.
These chemicals attach to receptors on nearby neuronsthe way a key fits
a lock. Prior to 1973, scientists understood little about opiate drugs
or about drug action in general. They knew opiate drugs acted on
specific
neurons, and that opiate drugs and drugs that blocked their action all
had a similar molecular structure. This suggested
that opiates
worked by attaching to a receptor. But few receptor molecules
of
any
kind had been found. The opiate receptor was initially hard
to find
because it was only a tiny percentage of brain tissue.
Researchers -
[Candace Pert] - got
around
the problem by using radioactive
naloxone,
a synthetic opiate with a strong attraction to the receptor. They
showed
that opiates bind specifically to cultured rat neurons and that
non-opiate
drugs do not bind to the receptor. This procedure, known as the receptor
binding assay,
became an important method of studying
drugs.
Medicine,
General
Pathology, false medicine.
In fact, how can a careful
and
critical report of the emotional and lifestyle state
at every encounter between doctor and patient not be taken into
account?
How can we admit a scientific doctrine which presents biochemical
processes as immobile when there are present typically
dissipative phenomena? Chemistry of
the
emotions....: how could be considered admissible
as
“scientific” a "doctrine"
insisting
on pseudo-therapeutic proposal which presents such intricate,
tangled processes as simple and static?
In technical terms the study of
causes
is called aetiology, while the study of their
mechanisms of
action
is called pathogenesis; both these can be called
true Science
only
when they are well verified and not hyper-simplified; when they are
truly
considered in their essence
as well as in the dynamism of their evolution. It
is only then
that
an abstract idea of pure Science passes towards eventual verification,
repetition and calculation, comparable observation and, if it is the
case,
also experimentation.
One of the basic branches of
theoretical
medicine, together with doctrine and research is called,
in
every language, General Pathology. This science
deals with all
the
varied and composite systems of cause, concomitant cause,
situation
and interaction. In sequence with this and with the study of normal
Physiology
lies the study of the dynamic
homeostasis of living bodies in their well being and well managing till
even evolution, as
rather in their disharmonies.
Rarely do isolated causes account to modify the normal
performance
of vital phenomena, in the normal interaction between these and those:
instead much more frequent are the groupings - the galaxy
constellations
- of primary cause and concomitant ones and their varied and
interrelated
possibilities
of action. Neither can a hypothetical
state
of health be considered as
a certainty: health is not a static concept but is a moment hung in the
balance, the delicate equilibrium of which defines the life of the
subject.
A true physiology of every
effectual existence cannot disregard together with the multiple
correlation
of the present also
the various
modalities enacted to perform it. Emotions, relationships,
feelings,
affection and
subjective
experiences forge part of the actual reality of the whole body
condition
also of its reality defined as psychological.
Undervaluing all this
undermines
the basic efficacy of medicine as a practical profession and damages
the scientific basis to recognize the true plurality of authentic
logical links of causality. But not only the ephemeral moment has to be
noticed: also a doctor himself however
-
as well every one who cares for or even only surrounds every person
till
from his/her first approaches towards life - is a real "person" with
his/her own nature, revealing
himself
as coming from his
own past: also for and into him/her is ever acting out a good
or bad past,
well
or badly experienced, well or badly integrated in the real "to-be" of
the
present moment. Stated again in more explicit
terms:
it is not enough to say that, if every data is not correlated with the
psychological part and moreover PAST existence of the patient's
examination and with
the
knowledge
coming from doctor's true experience, that every diagnosis
which
doesn't
also
contain the maximum of this type of information it cannot but
give
defective
results.
Ippocrates
stated:
Momentary occurs
life,
deceptive is knowledge, demanding is discernment
but
besides Ippocrates, some "good", respected
and famed medicine
doctors can be awarded:
The
inability to emotionally regulate can manifest in the symptoms of
depression, anxiety, insomnia, somatic illnesses, loneliness and
conflict that our clients bring to us. That same emotional arousal
feeds our runaway addiction to substances, food, sex, work, rage,
electronic devices and the compulsion for constant activity. ... The
importance of the right
hemispheric healing goes on beneath
the words
and the particular
theoretical clinical approach. [To] briefly explore
our work with our client’s relationships, (couple’s and family therapy)
building an understanding ...requires
that we, as
therapists, do more than teach “good communication
skills”. [However ...] the knowledge of how “to be” in
intimate
relationship [gives] ... an empowering explanation of how we
act in our offices, as “neural architects”, reshaping and remolding our
client’s brains, and engaging
so deeply
that the work profoundly
reshapes our brains as well.
How therefore can we not
take
into
account carefully and critically the reciprocal
use of language and not
only the concomitant emotional state in every encounter
between doctor and patient? How can we not risk
misrepresenting
the case picture undervaluing fundamental elements and/or overstating
others, misleading appeals confusing with physical symptoms, or on the
contrary
paying attention to real deceptions passed off as requests? How can
colossal
errors be avoided, instead to confirm and confirm them again
by
themselves in purely
numerical successive statistics? And if mathematics
is at the
base
of every serious application of science, why then subordinate the
mathematics
of shifting algorithms to those of fixed statistics, so often full of
badly chosen numbers?
Contradicted
and Initially Stronger Effects in Highly Cited Clinical Research John
P. A.
Ioannidis, MDJAMA. 2005;294:218-228. ContextControversy
and
uncertainty ensue when the results
of clinical research on the effectiveness of interventions are
subsequently contradicted. Controversies are most prominent when
high-impact research is involved.
Objectives To
understand how
frequently highly cited studies are contradicted or find effects that
are stronger than in other similar studies and to discern whether
specific characteristics are associated with such refutation over time.
Design
All original clinical research studies published in 3 major
general clinical journals or high-impact-factor specialty journals
in 1990-2003 and cited more than 1000 times in theliterature
were examined.Main
Outcome
Measure The results of highly cited articles were
compared against subsequent studies of
comparable or larger sample size and similar or better
controlled designs. The same analysis was also performed
comparatively for matched studies that were not so highly
cited. Results
Of 49 highly cited original clinical research studies,
45 claimed that the intervention was effective. Of these, 7
(16%) were contradicted by subsequent studies, 7 others (16%)
had found effects that were stronger than those of subsequent studies,
20 (44%) were replicated, and 11 (24%) remained largely unchallenged.
Five of 6 highly-cited nonrandomized studies had been
contradicted or had found stronger effects vs 9 of 39 randomized
controlled
trials (P = .008). Among randomized trials, studies
with contradicted or stronger effects were smaller
(P = .009)
than replicated or unchallengedstudies although
there was no statistically significant difference in their
early or overall citation impact. Matched control studies
did not have a significantly different share of refuted
results than highly cited studies, but they included more
studies with "negative" results.
Conclusions
Contradiction and initially stronger effects are not
unusual in highly cited research of clinical
interventions and their outcomes. The extent to which high
citations may provoke contradictions and vice versa needs
more study. Controversies are most common with highly cited
nonrandomized studies, but even the most highly cited
randomized trials may be challenged and refuted over time,
especially small ones.
Proceeding
ages,
proceeding generations,
children's
needs and old people's meanness... on the clutches of unhealthy
medicine:
consider so serious matters when so
much misused
to become almost laughable:
Neuroleptic
drugs
to control hallucinations, no matter at
whichever age?
Did
exist
really a
"delusional" beast?
Is it a delusion or does be this above - beautiful - cat?
A
very old woman in an Old Age
Hospital was
telling in her
rough Piedmont
dialect - more similar to French than Italian:
- Mi
sun pa fola!
La bes-ccia
a y è da bun
Similar
to French:
- Je ne suis pas
folle! La bête y est tout bonnement! [I
am not
crazy, the beast really exists!]
Smiling Cheshire
cat on Alice
in
wonderland? Sertraline
and the Cheshire Cat in Geriatric Depression?
"Inconceivable"
changes? or: transit and resilience?
What “value” to
attribute then
to so-called “therapies”? understood to be mostly but not only pharmacological
- when symptoms
are totally
confused
with causes?
Still worse:
when transitory
How not to misrepresent every
fact when at present moment,
every infinite and
infinitely transitory
“present
moments” is perceived and rationalized as an absolute?
When a way of thinking "bakes" itself
in stagnant compartments representative of a world
in which there are no links between cause and effect, no
"before"
nor "after", not
"inside" nor
"outside"? How can work appropriately such a
mentality for which every “before” and every
“after”
are the same thing and the passage from one condition to another, only
apparently describes a change, being in fact artificial, owed to
pharmacological
intervention...
symptoms are misconstrued as all-absorbing “illnesses”? Without
which the passage is impossible
(inconceivable)...
My
headaches
have
always been
a constant companion in these years. I cannot say I’ve always had them
because my earliest memories of them are during the period of
high
school,
let’s say from the age of fifteen. I suffered from them at different
times, not following any predictable pattern but thinking about them
now the
thing which never changed was their intensity: I remember them as
being
very strong. The sensation was that of an extremely debilitating pain,
to get away from. They arose suddenly, I didn’t then
connect them to
any triggering event; it was as if they came from nowhere. There was a before, without a headache
and an after without
headache:
in the
middle
was the pain. But different from a normal sequence of time was the
fact
that the
before and after were the same thing. In a certain
sense
you couldn't even speak of a before and
after but
simply of absolute
facts: if 1 is the condition of without headache and 0
that
of with, you
could
describe it in this way: 10101010101010. The passage from one state to
another, only apparently described as a change, was instead something
artificial, owed to pharmaceuticals. For 0 to return to 1
the
use of a
painkiller was necessary. Without
that, the passage was
impossible (inconceivable)
it was as if “1” once immersed in pain couldn't recognize the
possibility
of returning to a painless state. In
substance the previous state no
longer
existed. In reality it had never existed, as the
successive
state
didn't
exist either: the headache became an absolute fact and as such had no
cause and much less a remission in time: it had to simply
disappear
as quickly as possible not be there anymore and the only way was to
intervene
with pills as quickly as possible. There wasn't
the concept of
illness:
cause, development and remission, with the relative temporal sequence,
but only two unconnected
facts (two monolithic blocks) in which the
painkiller
entered as an external factor. This explains why the danger of abuse
and
the inevitable
side-effects didn't come into it. The possibility
of
harm
to other vital functions was ignored or maybe cowardly accepted:
the head was one thing, the pain another, the pill made the pain go
away,
the rest: nothing (all, as in stagnant compartments, was representative
of a way of thinking, of a mentality in which there are no links
between
cause and effect, there is no
before or after, inside or outside).
Today
things
have
changed. The
pain
is variable both in intensity (also decidedly less than it was in the
past)
and how it starts. It
always has
a cause (which is often investigated)
and lasts from a few hours to a day (rarely more). Sometimes it goes
after
sleep, sometimes after a dream (a dream can also start it), sometimes
after
a thought (also a thought can bring it on), sometimes it
seems to
be caused by
unexpressed
anger or from physical
tiredness,
or from a painful
memory different
from that of before. Meaning that in that moment
the pain seems
a way of transit, almost like a ferry which
transports
from one shore to another (see the concept of Resilience.).
It’s obvious
that the use of drugs becomes doubly damaging both
from their nature as “poison” for the body as well as for the fact that
they impede the transit, or accelerate it artificially, impeding all
those
interior modifications (at this point I’d say also biochemical) which
instead
need time and the right ways to work.
Here
then,
different than
before, the
correct way to represent it becomes a numerical sequence in which pain
intervenes as a question mark (due to the innumerable unknowns which
constitute
it) and in which every number represents the result of a series of
internal
and external intervention: ….._2_3_?????_4_7_???_8_12_?.... Even if in
its excessive simplification this last sequence is as clear as the
monotone
of the first (101010101010….), which I have intentionally taken
from
the binary language of computers, it’s assigned
to a machine but certainly not to a human being.
that returns to the surface with difficulty.
In every case the feeling is that not only will the pain
pass
shortly
but that it must absolutely develop. More than anything else is
the
feeling that once passed my being after will be improved.
Memory
and
medicine:
time “regained”: past
reconstructed and sequences re-activated
Medical practice depends
on various branches, which are either solely
theoretical in basis or
useful
to differentiate between knowledge and practice relying upon various
criteria,
but also following concrete approaches more or less logical or ... commercial.
A pediatrician has to care children but not only sick ones: he has to
look over and if necessary try to optimize their developmental phases
beyond
to heal rather than simply alleviate contingent symptoms. Alike a
effective
generalist doctor
must watch round off till the patient's childness to can supply if its
previous
development results as defective. In this way in its primary form of
hygiene and prevention or in its
secondary
form of therapy, medicine going through variable fields of pathogenic
(and/or salvific) causes and concomitances
must take into account the true physiology of
the whole existence: this going through must not disregard
the multiple
correlations of the present nor
the
various ways in which it was realized in time.
But if, as written above, trees can be
proposed
as a visual
metaphor to simplify the factors
which underpin every variable existence, furthermore
human lives,
assigned to a more powerful extent, exist other factors which cannot be
compared
to trees: the development in terms of space towards increasing openings
to be mastered and in term of future
to be pre-pared - even improved by new main far-reaching EVOLUTION
- has for Nature
its
own intrinsic regularity. But this basic regularity related to TIME
can be again found in
another
enormous gift: the past
gathered
to live into MEMORY.
But this gift
opens other and surprising hopes and chances: well stored and recoverable
biological or bettergenetic
memory holds not only all the lived pastpre-ordained
way
- the genetically predisposed steps even when unfortunately missed. Nothing is
lost,
neither events
nor
phases of development ignored or denied: at any
time
all the sequence of facts and the route towards optimal maturity may be
re-found and re-activated, till a successful outcome.
Each existence can never be taken as fixed, as unalterable: we are not
only have at disposal three but FOUR
dimensions.
Before reaching
existential completeness in the present moment
have
had we, or should have had, to follow well defined phases of
development?
These "phases" exist by themselves in established
biologically turnover through determined sequence: thus,the galaxy of
pathogenic
and salvific
factors becomes more
and more variegated and the - really lived or badly interfered or
missed phases - can become at any age
regained:
protagonist of a better
and more true
physiology of existence as it have been completed through the very
passage of well organized TIME
or after a
re-lived recover.
How can a doctor work if this is
ignored?
Stated in more explicit terms: in approaching the patient it is not
enough
to only take into account feelings or the so-called psychological
factors
of the moment: any diagnosis and any therapy,
not involving meticulous
work into the
patients'
past, can only be superficial and therefore
maybe
substantially
erroneous.
In science the unexpected which
supplies
a lot of information is called serendipity:
so a careful, attentive and well orchestrated case history does
not
only serve as a fundamental instrument for diagnosis - often much
effective
than sophisticated, if not invasive instruments of analysis - but may
also
even be transformed into - and here lies the unexpected gift! - a therapy. This may
be the case when the
taking of the anamnesis
does not stop at the banal question-response stage but continues...
until
positively becomes the cardinal element of a sub-speciality distinct
from psychiatry,
like psychoanalysis.
There are illnesses which
impinge on the
physical body in various ways but there are also very numerous and
debilitating
real - not imaginary ! - illnesses which afflict the non-physical part
of the individual. Neuroses and psychoses are neither imaginary or
mysterious
nor to be combated with willpower (???), or almost with superstitious
cures or
“specific medicine”.
It is likely that a state of oblivion - in
itself pathogenic - covers serious sufferings felt to be insupportable,
but
not only grave
and terrible events can act as obstructive traumas on the existential
journey: it is an apparently easy way to try - through leaving behind -
to
annul or at least to forget the disturb to be hidden. This
search
for oblivion is neither a defect nor a weakness; but is on the contrary
something like an - even not conscious - deliberate, wearing and
interminable
censure which carries along an avalanche of consequences which
impoverish
the self, giving sources of further risks:
in any case establishing
a sure lack of well being
and of properly to behave.
If it has been stated
that folly
is the oblivion of a great sorrow, it is not
automatic that
this loss
of
awareness
and authenticity should be for ever
an inevitable destiny. Just this is the area where an important
specialization
of Medicine as doctrine and profession, Psychiatry,
should
occupy itself, but usually moreover in a symptomatic way or at least
simply on striving to deepen
awareness only of the current
interrelations and personal present experiences: while its parallel psychoanalysis
has the assignment to
reconstruct
the person as should have been.
Not an only symptomatic cure for neuroses - and also for most
psychoses - then exists but is hard and often very
painful: starting from the beginning and helping to relive and overcome
even highly destructive traumas can something as "surgically" reinstate
what is lost or damaged
and
can permit - to whom is really enough brave to accept it - to find
again and then rebuilt
psychologically together with thenot
fulfilled childhood the present real world to
inhabit into and
on which to perform.
But not only emotional disorders, not only parents/children
misunderstandings can cause "great sorrows" so great not to be
borne; not only emotional conflicts can disorganize the personality and
its system of relation, also the body has to be considered, also every
bodily occurrence has to be recovered. Psychosomatic
has the knowledge to listen also bodies; psychosomatic can
also go more forward in the direction of recognize and care traumas
hurting and wounding bodies:
with its
know-how one can even understand extreme psycho-physical situations,
special suffering as
these derived from serious
violence
and from harming deeds unforeseeable
in peacetime
and/or perpetrated
against children
in
apparently normal families.
in innermost unexpressed capacities, a
but also - this also in a
Psychoanalysis
as basic
implement of
effectual Medical Science...
It is likely that oblivion
till a sort of mental fainting - even in
itself pathogenic - for immediate life-saving covers facts almost
totally unbearable. But when this oblivion
seems
at its most deep and dark, sometimes shocking spurts forth of vivid
memory allowing a breakdown in the efforts of censure: uplifting bouts
of
awareness not only as verbal “memories” but as entire flashbacks
- in film directors terms. Notwithstanding it is just when
these flashbacks emerge that arouses the very effectualpossibility of success
on a
psychiatric therapy, as long as
that therapy is based on solidunhappily
developed children - who have simply to recuperate defective
passages -
or ex-children
missing a great part of their life, and even victims of terrible experiences
could have been received
and helped to relive and resolve traumas, till
to become
healthy persons, availing further at its plenty of
social and historical state of “responsible citizen”.
Considering
then the patients' side, it is to point out that such vivid recalled
memories
come
neither by an effort of will nor through particular mental
capacity, furthermore nor by “magic” even it might seem so, since
often mental or visual remembers are accompanied by genuine, unexpected
bodily manifestations.
Summarizing if folly
is the
oblivion of a great sorrow -
by
itself
again later damaging - not
always “badly conducted development” or “traumatised
infancy”
goes only on this compelled way: also in the worse cases medicine can
propose a
therapy,
which not only treats symptoms, but acts towards the restitutio ad integrum
[restoration to original
condition]
with the end prospect of a recovery which can be traced back to the reconstruction
of existence and essence to how it could have been and should be. A
process
like this is ever difficult, often shocking and erratic
in
progress and not doubtful
precepts. Not
when one can only work as
“alleviator of contingent symptoms”, even having in charge
extremely severe cases - but only if provided and allowed by patients
themselves - a doctor
who seeks a real cure can
restore their cornerstones to wisdom and awareness, to a renewed life
in its
wholeness. Helped and not chased
this reliving of experiences can spontaneously
clear dulled minds: but a quite obliged requisite to attain this
project is that
I
cannot keep
all
things straight. the remembering goes back and forth
and not straight in a line... Taking very shaky steps
in
a crooked and zig-zagging manner, approaching
and avoiding the awful truth t hat this happened...
but knowing there was a
cause for my pain,
and that this cause makes
sense,
allow these multi-level memories... [even if and
when]
the inner work, the therapy has lost [inevitably] its
sweetness...
So hard to go back and forth between therapy
and
life - whatever that is...
Regained, this
possible goal doesn't stop: to validate such a prolonged and painful
journey a continuing aftermath advances by itself to integrate
in an otherwise unthinkable evolution
an
improved and maybe evermore improving personal potentiality of
consciousness and acting. And this is not without ulterior
recompense:
the journey undergone and clarified by patients previously engaged to
rescue from the "bad side", otherwise also carrying out an
intimate knowledge, offers up for every one and mostly for
whom
watched at this redemption an extremely important source
of unexpected information and awareness: to accommodate and to
understand enjoys a deep cultural enrichment on a personal and
professional level.
[However
...] the knowledge of how “to be” in intimate relationship [gives] ...
an empowering
explanation of how we
act in our offices, as “neural architects”, reshaping and remolding our
client’s brains, and engaging
so deeply
that the work profoundly
reshapes our brains as well.
In other words this
growth may not stay only personal; rising above
even terribly
traumatizednot only recuperate themselves
but
be
fundamental sources to others of wisdom and awareness.
ex-children - conscious of accepted, relived
and
resolved experiences - may
Existing
alongside
the very
real catastrophic
traumas and violence
suffered at origins of a crippling
mental
pathology, but there are nonetheless also “little” damages which
interfered
a crucial stage in development, which have harmed the process of
harmonization
of affective, sociological and intellectual maturity. As expressed
above and pointed out in many other files/ chapters, predisposed paths
towards changes (plural!) have to move on a biologically
determined sequence, guided by a typical rhythm of physiological
developments modulated both by tempo and modality:
situations
damaging this sequence not only
alter a precise crucial stage but affect every one after it, triggering
a cascade of worsening errors. It is mistaken
however to
undervalue
that much more often pathogenic cause of hidden disturbance regards inner
difficulties and not
only painful facts, not external traumas but unbearable interior
experiences meaning emotions considered unacceptable because too
much
in contradiction with other emotions. In other words: assuming that
mental
pathologies are formed from lasting, fanciful
compensations
it is to be noted that not only as cause of mental illness exist
violence and/or dysfunctional rearing or lack of attachment.
there Unresolved difficulties in the contradictory management
of
inner
emotions also
can act,
without considering the even more serious future consequences of when
crucial
moments of development are absent-mindledly interfered with what seems
subliminal to not enough careful people. The
prospect of recovery
for
every
mental pathology can exist, but the possibility of putting on
the
same level the cure of all patients, suffering either from
unbearable harms or from subjectively unsolvable internal
conflicts
due not only to traumatizing occurrences as much by personally
unacceptable emotions is at the base of
the great discovery, the great gift given us by Freud:
the psychoanalysis.
It is this regained respect for all initial situations that
has
permitted such enormous progress in theory and practice. This not only
offers to psychiatrists the valid possibility of obtaining real
recoveries, but also guarantees continuing contributions to the general
store
of
biological and socio-anthropological scientific knowledge.
Any therapy
which seeks to be
more
than a masker of symptoms must in essence be a restorer of full
physical
integrity: restitutio
ad integrum. Then: finite or infinite
analysis? Could psychotherapy have an end? When this sub-speciality can
declare the patient healthy? When - or as many chatters say - "never"?
When - or as more silly chatters tell - this is a path to feed an
everlasting dependency?
Or on the contrary every one, no matter if very
ill, can choose or change therapist and therapy method - as a person
wrote
having survived terrible experiences followed by many, many years of unsupportive,
devalidating, re-traumatizing
and then
refusing "that"
therapy - look at the file /chapter Consciousness
and memory,
parallel of this one, also with some duplicate subhead:
skipping
all
my developmental
phases might disqualify me from being heard? but
again....
NOT.
Any way really
it is to say that - as in every
field of
medical cares - compliance
could be achieved or missing compliance enacted: a true freedom of
choice doesn't oblige anyone to fulfill completeness, to
enter in
a full redesigned way of life and to rebuff fake affective
feelings. Nobody should be artificially compelled
to accept incompatibility between attachment and losses,
between real nature and parents' manners and
willing, between inborn love and loyalty for parents and relatives even
if
ascertained as depraved .... Freedom of choice often opts for accept
weakness, freedom
of choice doesn't regard only "heroes": not to bear more
suffering can prefer
dependency and symptoms instead a difficult entry onto something as a
very
NEW world where to utter a quite new personality. People can delay even for
ten and ten
years,people can stop
totally therapy or drag it out as it could be something as
a
dependency without searching its very effect.
"Never"? In sum up
definitely on the contrary different and deferred
outcomes can exist. "Never" or "infrequently"
doesn't regard "every" concerned people: sooner or later unforeseen
horizons of
consciousness,
awareness and... wisdom can open up for whom have
undergone difficulty, blocks, relived traumas,
reopen sufferance: sooner or later for whom had had the
endurance to disavow step by step their previously wearily built and
maintained defense
systems - see Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense
- their
pathological compensations. Else therapists don't be the unique
"masters" of real patients'
life: at every moment helped therapy can stop, but an autho-therapy can
go on by itself - as written above - towards continuing aftermath
advances to integrate
in an otherwise unthinkable evolution
bettering potentiality of consciousness and acting.
Summarizing: a total true, plenty personal condition can be regained
when memory,
present and
misaligned
possibilities
are realigned and harmonized;
when the
individual truly
reaches his
age,
not in years but in terms of EXPERIENCE;
when form,
attitudes,
energies,
responsibilities, emotions and instincts finally make themselves
available;
when finally
one can go beyond a simple
completion of
the
oneself existence towards
future
prospects of not only psycho-social restitutio ad integrum, also
bringing to all the contribution of these “special”,
totally
lived experience.
Whereas: perhaps if more
often and mostly if sustained
by PARTICIPATION, the worst memories are no longer enemies; no matter
what
terrible facts they acknowledge, they become something to change into
"jackpots":
they become indeed very lucky
occasions
to not only "silence the monsters" - finally for ever -
but
also to can turn the previously unbearable sensations into deep, enriching
EXPERIENCES. Conscious
experience is
the
way to reach the fullness of existence. Consciousness of
one's
past -
no matter what sort of past - substantially contributes to
determine
what is defined as the depth of a
person,
opposed to inconsistency and
fatuity. Moreover, each consciously borne experience not only pertains
to - the after all banal - reason, but it is the very root of true RIPENESS
and WISDOM
for the subject,
besides
being fount of vital culture for all of us.
(The famous Shakespeare's
quote: Ripeness
is Allmeans
exactly this.)
Here it must be POINTED
OUT again and again two Freud's
great - in sum up
his
greatest - DISCOVERIES: as written above as well
re-affirmed in
other files/chapters - see damaged
developmentamnestic
removal
of bad events is the sickening cause of mind illnesses,
but,
often and also perhaps far-reaching, are inner conflicts and
unpreparedness rising from not well developed phases and from mixed
emotions
not yet ready to be geared. So the first of these discoveries is
Freud's forethought regarding the equalization
between TRAUMATIC FACTS and UNACCEPTED
EMOTIONS in the
patients'
care, an equalization which is the very
basic gift given to all by Freud's PSYCHOANALYSIS.
To better explain: it was the REGAINED
RESPECT for both
situations which allowed such enormous improvements in theory
and
practice. Exactly this liberal respect
-
faced with trauma memories together
with "fake" dramatizations (aka "neurotic symptoms") based "only" on
typical
but mismanaged developmental emotions - can be such
a mighty
help for the psychiatric possibility of HEALING, for the
general
Medicine,
and for the general amount of psychological and CHILDREN
REARING
knowledge.
-
not only an
Transference
A typical common
place belief disparages psychoanalysis as a sure way to give rise to an
everlasting
attitude to dependence,
confusing this basic tool - just on the contrary designed to
really
recognize dependencies to be nullified - with every other
kind of
therapy, with
whichever
other
technical or spontaneous condition of aid, support, counseling,
assistance,
listening...: rather even disowning this first and main purpose.
In fact more than a Century ago this was already the
main... reversal which separated Freud and Breuer not
only regarding
their theories but also themselves as associates doctors (1889-1892):
till
then, the term TRANSFERENCE
should have been considered, and its real
meaning
correctly defined. And so, on the contrary of common
place banality, psychoanalysis becomes the ONLY actual way
to allow whoever as
sick as he/she is
to go into one's own TRUE life, into one's TRUE present time, near and
in TRUE relationship with real, not "imagined" present living persons
and occurrences.
Two are the mainstream ways opened by Freud on behalf of Medical cares,
and
Scientific knowledge for everyone to better manage
oneselves, to better care for children's
life and rearing, to better reveal an expand past memories:
the equalization
between traumatic and unaccepted emotions,
the awareness
to admit and therefore to feasibly UNTIE
the dependencies, when recognized in their true shape of TRANSFERT(S) -
surely plural.
Therefore it is compelling
to
take the
opportunity to give a drastic explanation apt to define which are the
real "facts", not to precise only the semantics of word as
a way
to
speak.
From Merriam-Webster
on-line
Dictionary :
Main
Entry: trans·fer·ence Pronunciation: tran(t)s-'f&r-&n(t)s,
'tran(t)s-(") Function: noun 1: an act, process, or instance of transferring: CONVEYANCE, TRANSFER 2:
the redirection of feelings and desires and especially of those
unconsciously retained from childhood toward a new object (as a
psychoanalyst conducting therapy)
On regard of this term - transference
- so often so much misused since confused with dependency - it is
urgent
to get some explanatory notes, since this redirection can be enacted
not only for memories of real deeds and persons, as much
also for "lived" even conscious egocentric imaginations. To
transfer,
as sounds the latin word trans-fero,
could be
trans-lated as equivalent to to
transport, to
convey
something from
there to here, and also - in this psychological abstract meaning - to
mix-up
present
person(s) and occurences with a reality, with a person, wih a situation
of the
past, or even with inner self-centered feelings.
Therapy
is not an ordinary social exchange between individuals.
Instead, it
is quite different. Consider Freud's original
psychoanalytic therapy. He would sit with his back to the patient
while the patient lay on the couch and free associated. Imagine
talking to a friend who would not answer you! One of the
characteristics of therapy is transference, where the
patient begins transfer the feelings which emerge in therapy to the
therapist. So, the patient may come to like or to hate the
therapist.
In psychoanalytic therapy, such
transference is expected and is a
sign of progress on the part of the patient.
All this so assumes the
shape of a little private psycho-drama where
the NEUTRAL, passive part is performed by the care-giver who,
instead to being unaware compelled into, can
willing and
conscious accept to act the
part lived or re-lived by
the patient: here playing the role of a stage show director, in his/her
ever
changing psycho-drama.
This explains why transference
is the
contrary of dependency: the task of a skilled and aware
therapist is
not to be ever compassionate and affectionate, to become the
contrary
of "bad" parents, but instead to be able
to recognize how much professional task can be facilitated by the intense,
actual
emotions risìng utterly into an ever changing
unconscious and
spontaneous scenario. To use this possibility requires more an actor's
skill than sympathy: not for being an "actor" as synonym
of
"liar", but
"actor" as able to follow the director's orders even if undefined
planned. The transference becomes then a PRIVILEGED
SET where
patient's past
occurences and actual
flights of fancyall
environmental involved people.
Summarizing: to exercise this
professional task does NOT consist of an only enduring "to listen" mere
words, but of a powerful and lively to
assist as co-protagonist the
patient's incoming memories and fancies: so psychanalysis became the UNIQUE way
NOT to
foster dependency but to really
solve it.
- dumped on present interpersonal
relations -
can be
observed almost directly, and directly "played" together. Knowing
eye-witness such characteristic gives an authoritative possibility "to
catch" symptomatic interpersonal misconducts: on behalf of
Any way in this ever
changing sets and scenarios, rules of protagonists
and co-protagonists every "tranference" can disappear, the true
possibility of a total
healing towards REALITY
can rise
and grow.
Nature and
health and true life are ever
changing,
ever NEW;
health
doesn't know
transference;
"normality"
is ever to be interested,
searching,
longing
for, to
be stimulated by novelties and to foster new inner ever broad feelings
and awareness.
Instead every possible
entangled "transference" arises and establishes
only in pathologic situation, derived from a pathological
development, giving whenever source(s) to other repetitive mishaps. A
mocking paradigm of such a never lasting self-referencing is easy
to be read
inKnots- They
are playing a game...
by R.D.
Laing:
mightily
pointing out to confirm that a wanting
past,
a selfish bulk lot of worn-out believing
cannot take advantage of knowledge of facts, not can translate them in
real
memories, not at all to construct whichever awareness.
A wanting past doesn't
adhere to actual reality and relations, a
wanting, wrapped whole life so continue to "shrink" itself and to coil
feelings
in repetitious "transferred knots",
in caricature blockages
and in
blocked ties.
Unfortunately then this file/chapter together with this whole work
have a more "complicated" task to comply: not
only should describe the natural, physiological and progressive -
unhurried and freeing - "to blossom" as difficult job
of
childhood - Childhood as
static
deed doesn't exist: it indicates disengaging changes
is the
foreword of the Italian book Infanzia:
tempo di
mutamenti. It is on purpose this
insistent use of words beginning by "com" or their
synonyms: a mandatory
to recognize and
disconnect worthless complications and incoming - or past -
harms
oblige to re-open till origin "unfold" complexes and so resort
them to
their specific task.
Just to
emphasize how
to
give up such -
abusive - transferred selfish-based
significance opens finally the way to the TRUE
LIFE, to
a healing road towards a real - not imagined - existence, the
first subhead of this file/chapter puts
forward
condensed the main
concepts of this whole assignment:
to coil reflects
to
involve:is it
the contrary ofto
develop?At a
good side: only wrapped
buds canthrive;but
alsoto uncoil embroiled matterscan
assist development
once restored
past,since - at a
bad side - a synonym of involved is mislead
/embroilmeaning also FRAUD.
Re-living
and transfert
Relived memories any
time can
come to the surface: more often if provided and well-directed, if
supported by participation, they not only cease to be
inimical,
not only silence at long last and forever the "monsters", but, highly
redeeming, can
even transform earlier unbearable sensations into true, profound,
enriching EXPERIENCES.
On the contrary: if these relived
memories/evidences are NOT collected, NOT believed or - even worse
- derided and
opposed, taken for delirium or slanders, in their turn aggravate the sleep of reason and
at
a wide range breed new
self-reproducing monsters, not
manageable, often irretrievably destructive.
For
information on the so
called "critical experiences" leading to
disrupt the capacities to modulate emotions and pertinent psychic
defense mechanisms see Trauma and
dissociation and also the related pages in the main
Psychiatric
Text DSM-IV.
And for farther data on uncollected, unbelieved or even worse derided
memories and emotions see - fundamental
on this subject - the Italian file/chapter Imbroglio è
il
contrario di sviluppo which
title endorses a pun
derived from
the main Synonyms and
Contraries
Dictionary - translated approximately on the subhead title of
this
file/chapter
- with its new
adds
and links, together with the file/chapter TOTEM AND
TABOO
revisited: awful and fertile rise of new superstitions.
Luckily
not even this
must
inevitably fall into an absolutely
unavoidable fate: NOBODY - no matter how ill they are - can be totally
prevented from being able, if wanting
to
follow or to regain a personal
course of life. NOT every
one - no matter how "sick" - is hindered in
becoming truely herself/himself and will do follow the personal way.
The citation below shows how a basic personal structure can make always
exist: no matter
how much suffering, nobody is doomed to become a
submissive, a-critical follower of teachers, gurus, or
even
unreliable
therapists, neither during a
hard and long-lasting
psychoanalytic care. These
quotes
below are very
important to deny and
refute
the wrong common place idea regarding psychoanalysis itself, and point
out how every
one is NOT so easily dependent: even on parents themselves; are
important to
testify how and why does NOT "transference" and the person object of
transference steal
personal
willing: how NOT
every
one is predestined to be a "follower".
It
isn' t
rue. I don't
always follow. I can't follow my parents. But I
can't
defend myself against them. I have to run. have
to hide to protect me. Seeing a book
review,
badly written but profound... talking about the
traumatized patient seeing in the therapist a defective
"holding
container"... then talking about what happens
when
the therapist reinforces a false
self...: how
destructive it is to the
patient.
Many people... many many... there is distress...
reaching
out... the person on the other end does
not
want to hear it or so it seems... So the
patient is harmed by the fact t hat she
switches back into another personality... one who
is perceived
by
the helping person as "now you are yourself again... [My
therapist]suddenly became very dangerous to me...
emotionally
abusive, and I decided that I didn't
deserve
so much bad treatment. I should leave her. I suddenly
knew it was time to stop therapy rather than being
destroyed
by therapists. I was very unwilling and frightened to try
again...
But not only one's heed - even "fake-love" -
could
be
"tranferred" on
"persons": also not human, rather every kind of formal entities can
collapse into similar failure of reality; and if the fashion to "use
and throw" is surely to be condemned, this does NOT regardwhenthe
CONCRETENESS of deeds, emotions, opinions is
confused with static mental
images.
Therefore also on objects, situations, fixed pseudo-feelings, fixed
belief... empty
tranferts
without future can interfere till to intercept
perceptions,
awareness, possibilities. Absurd, fixed transferts
disable full existences to persist obstinately in following and
searching and recognizing only repetitive ways: and this continues to
occur in an everlasting incongruity with echological and personal
homeostasis, since NEVER SYNTONIZEABLE with the ever mobile outer
environment and inner body's existence. In these deteriorating vicious
circles, persons, feelings, situations, objects go on endlessly UNCONSCIOUSLY to remodel old feelings into FETICHES:
it is to say
that emotions and opinions
become themselves new SUPERSTITIONS
instead to stand for "warm-hearted memories", for real
awarness,
or for hypothesis
getting through to new
experiences.
The dissolving
of transferts, the loss/renunciation of meanings
arbitrarily
given to undue transferences, to shift from emotions only SUBJECTIVELY
referred to something and someone on something else and someone else,
opens at least the way to TRUE LIFE:
if
not to the
joy
of livingFOURTH
DIMENSION
of thelived time
is
the way to the fullness of existence: in fact the consciousness of
one's past and one's emotions - no matter what that past and those
emotions were and still are - substantially contributes to determine
what is defined as a person's density (as opposite to fatuity,
inconsistency). Every consciously borne experience not only pertains to
the - after all banal
- reason,
but it is the root of true MATURITY,
capable of personal WISDOM:
from
which can emanate a fount of vital culture for all. (This is more or
less the meaning of the celebrated line by Shakespeare RIPENESS
IS ALL, King Lear, Act v scene v)
As written above, typical commonplace disparages psychoanalysis as a -
wrongly presumed - sure way to give rise to an everlasting attitude to
dependence, a typical commonplace confuses this basic tool of effectual
Medical Science with every other kind of therapy, with whichever other
technical or spontaneous condition of aid, counselling, assistance,
listening. On the contrary psychoanalysis is the ONLY actual way to
allow anyone- no matter how ill he/she is - to enter one's own TRUE
life, one's TRUE present time, in contact and in TRUE
relationship
with
real, not "imagined" persons and "occurrences" living in the present.
Differently from any other kind of therapy or aid - however long and
painful - psychonalysis for its very nature of revelation
of
transferts
(strictly plural), can only GIVE BACK
and
NOT rob a person of the capacities for recognition and decision. This
chronologically is the first great discovery
by Freud,
opening the possibilities of distinguishing and therefore resolving
dependences once identified by their very nature of TRANSFERT.
at least to LIVING and not vegetating lost in
isolated world and in the void of one's fancies, expectations and
fears.
Conscious experience, i.e. the human "deepeness" given by the
The
rag-and-bone shop
Apropos of
the word
"transfert" a flat specification - more factual
than semantic - is MUCH NEEDED to resolve a series of equivocations and
false expectations. As explained above - and also in the file/chapter Consciousness
and memory - the word, derived from Latin, literally means to
transfer, that is to say to transport, to
convey
something from
there to here, including relived emotions that are unconsciously piled
up by people or objects from the past, or by present fantasy on people
and situations - instead separate, differential, NEUTRAL, moreover
unconscious and all together unaware. (All this muddle of "times
removed", fantastical attributions, pseudo-rationalistic
misunderstandings is poetically described and evidenced in the
jocking chapters of Knots
by R.D.
Laing.)
Whoever its object is, he/she
as object is entirely overcharged with other's lived memories without
understanding neither their nature nor their reason, whereas the
subject tends to react, deceived in his/her expectations and
pseudo-convictions: every moment of such pseudo-relationships can only
give cause to an endless talk to the winds - where from very tenacious
entangled dependences derive. On the contrary, when the speaker is in a
position to
accept that a transfert
is being
enacted - as did Freud in contrast with Breuer - it
becomes
possible to re-transform such a sterile
meeting
between incommunicable entities into a
factive
dialogue: or even much more to help actively the
"protagonist"
on recognizing his real intents, willings, needs, memories...
Chronologically this has been the Freud's first GREAT DISCOVERY, which
sanctioned the incompatibility between his method and that of Breuer
(1889-92): in a practical sense all this presupposes that one is in a
position to consent to play the
part of an
actor, if not of a dummy in an inner performance by the
person
who plays an active part - in the case of therapy: the patient.
Performing the actor in this series of private psychodramas impede them
to be fixed as "dependences" and "ties", but it is not always an easy
task for a ... not "professional actor".
Notwithstanding just these difficulties are very rewarding and give
another advantage: the conscious commitment places the therapist in an extremely
privileged
position: under his/her eyes and in his/her
emotionally to play actor role, the doctor in charge can
not
only apprehend but also personally ASCERTAIN
the
situations the patient/producer not only "tells" but also expounds and
presentifies - unconsciously, but in a very effective manner.
Should one comply with the patient's relived memories and accept not to
take an active part in them in a misunderstood bond? As Freud
discovered more than a Century ago only in this way the true
possibility of RECOVERY
from a past no longer gangrening materializes. And then, only when
every transfert has DISAPPEARED, one can move towards a full admittance
to the true renewed personality. NORMALITY, relating to the present
changeable reality - see the whole fileConsciousness
and memory
- is NEVER structured into static
formations, into interpersonal relations endlessly entangled in
themselves - see again the playful paradigm on their indelible
self-referentiality in Knots
by R.D.
Laing. Only when coming from a faulty past adhesion to
reality,
and recognizing the novelty of RELATIONS
-
in their mobile and enriching interchange - one finds himself/herself
plunge into from one moment to the next one, no more contracted and
enrolled in repetitive pathological
transferts, in grotesque blocked knots and blocking ties.
Could allow then a true recovery prevent badly digested memories, give
the faculty to replace bad memories and/or inconsistent imagination
with lived suffered EXPERIENCES?
Why is it instead so longlasting and not ever granted for a so from a
Century tested therapy to break such an extreme
solitude,
in its selfihness
and incapacity to acknowledge one's role in the world?
Why is so unfair
to suppose
that it could be simple and effortless and quick and granted to come
out from a repetitive, narrow, monotonic past any way believed to be
the undisputed source of foreseeable convictions? Why seems so
painful give up the funnel-shaped structure of the "pathologic"? Why
disparage oneself freedom and dignity and mind in favour of an always
hierarchical world in its superiority/inferiority, and magic or anyway
fideistic in its substantial?
In reality it is biased to simplify and naively think that to convoy
towards a "normality" - never previously known nor even imagined -
should be ever rewarded and at first thanked: it is fearful to manage a
future without a sure "guidance", it is also difficult and heavy to
renounce to turn own's mishaps against external pseudo-enemies... For
the actor/therapist is hard personally to not fall not enough ready in
persecutory sets where "dependency" is changed in persecutory
disapproval, nor can one deceptively confide that it could be easy to
"sacrifice" the illusion of being capable to stand as "prophet" (more
or less of "woe" or of operator of "sensational miracles").
On the matter of fact this can be accomplished, but only with an
unpredictable lot of time and patience and only if the "actor rule"
could be well played without surrender not only when the
director/patient requires a rule of a fake-guru but also when it should
match as a persecuting "enemy".
To set off in an open, new, varied, variable and diversified world rouses dismay
and
an anxious wish for denial, hence it is not even desirable to accelerate the
entrance into the
wide breath and mutability
of NORMALITY - viable
but
unpredictable. But meanwhile - following the road to vix medicatric
Naturae
- the process tends to go on by itself autonomously. When accepted,
little by little the frightened
dismay
dissolves into more bearable,
realistic
bewilderment.
When false transferts cease to occupy all the room
available in an egocentric confusion between the inner self -
not recognizong himself/herself - and a non-existent outer -
representing
merely a mirror of it - the slipping away from this poverty of
second-hand recycling
at last can allow true choices. When the waste of a badly digested past
or impositions do no longer authorize the empty prophesying, then
attention, pre-cautions, vigilance find their place again.
Then true affections, true sense of responsibility appear: TRUE
not only because they are in agreement with personal taste and style,
but also because they calibrate from time to time according to the - by
now well recognized and assessed - actual circumstances. This not only
implies "sacrifices",
but also offers
a farther
prize to the real self, cleaned
from the remnants of a PAST never really passed.
Affections
should remain within the integrity
of sensible
experience, which
is the condition to obtain the fullness of
existence without ever
assuming the faulty feature of sensorial
deprivation:
the inhibition by contact
typical of rationalizing
processes,
thus avoiding the paradox
of the dignity of reason that denies the
integrity of the person.
Then: to
can master
every sensible experience and to recognize
physically
the environment mean to enter with sufficient assurance free from
useless apprehensions in the outside
world either of space or even of unforeseeable future; but if this
allows to blossom and to bear fruit also in successive EVOLUTION,
furthermore improves the PRESENT
to blossom in every bit of time, to charge every
momentwith intensity
and
fullness. This personal integrity ripens at long last to
strengthen the
whole life almost till it would seem longer since more
plentiful. This basic completeness resume moment by moment the true
essence of the SELF
assuming the very leading place from which to begin every deed with the
continual supply of the completeness of
senses and
emotions: main tools working as aperture to the external world.
From a well organized real inner
world
it is easy to start not only to express oneself but
to acknowledge and make use of external circumstances: this leading SELF
should then
be ever the "first person" on conjugation of verbs, established by the
power to recognize and declare I LIKE IT/
I DON'T
LIKE or I DISLIKE IT denoting and underlining its dynamic
characteristic, its
continuing exclusive competence.
Furthermore when well
ascertained, the powerful reality of the I like it is
for ever and for a lot of situations an effectual improving life-style;
but not only a platform to start: after I
like it, I
take itit
is ENOUGH
one, the wholeness
of satisfaction
gives the input to move towards other,
differentiate more ample aims.
Hence moving sturdily from
such solidified background, to open the horizons Beyond the
pleasure
principle becomes not only possible besides
suitable: it
leads alluring to learn how to master
themselves either challenging inner forces or subduing inner
needs;
it tempts eagerly to
enlarge limits step by step by trials
and errors, by repetitive pedantic little deeds, by
forcing
inner possibilities and overcoming vulnerabilities: changing them on
willpower to reach aims. In Freudian terms one can describe the real
passage from
the
first
complex - the "oral" one - leaving
its "relay-race baton" to the second - the "anal" one. And, when
attained the basic
outset of the "relay-race" of complexes, to can
display for the whole life the expansion of human
possibilities will be assured: beginning fromthe
solemn
regularity of
childhood such vital project should any way utterly accompany the every
one's whole
life.
.
comes and goes on
followed
by another powerful reality: the
SUPERSTITIONS?
TABOOS? BlindObedience
to authority? Lack
of
self-reliance, self-respect, consciousness of responsibility?
"Fear" believes
to keep
safe on building
barricades: and then narrows spaces, knowledge, relationship and
understanding...
and widens on return new fearfulness and dependency.
On
return
again and again it widens new fearfulness and more and more intrusive
dependency: who
is easily deceived or
cheated: FOOL
Rather
than towards the fullness of existence and its FREE CHOICES, several
deadly equivocations were born and continue to rage on the wave
of philosophical - and religious or pseudo-religious - theories which
for Centuries have characterized our Civilization. the human leaning -
or perhaps the consequence of having been deprived independently from
individual cultural level - moves in the
direction of narrowing fears, lack of self-confidence and interests,
besides towards superstition
and deceit hierachycally transmitted.
Several fanciful, extemporaneous
superstitions spread continually, having as
object to adore a whichever element or a fancy whatsoever, a
stereotyped end to pursue or in which blindly to believe.
If language
mirrors symbolically reality, unfortunately too often is a main path to
more mislead
facts: several words are currently used in an inaccurate way in turn
foreboding renewed "deprivations". Some wrong meanings could be
downright idealized as IDOLS to which to tribute a superstitious
adoration. For instance rational, rationality
and comprehend
derive from exact Latin terms
meaning linear
- and then only approximate and defective and even "artificial"
systems of measurement: ratio
= ruler;
whilst
comprehend
send
to a capacity
measure. Even will,
as a word and a concept, joins the confusion of inflated meanings
instead to use INTENTIONALITY
that presupposes the underlined
emotion
governing the direct action moment by moment. (How often
someone
who is prey to the emotion known as desolation
-
when all becomes
useless and meaningless - is accused of being bereft of will,
how often
one praises as courage and strength the almost somnambulistic
"willpower" in someone proceeding unperturbed, detached from all
sensations and cautions! )
A
quick link
to help for
scientific
knowledge: Mendeleev's
Periodic
Table presented with easy to open descriptive links related
to each
and every element.
Hippocrares'
Oath
original printed as a property page near an Hippocrates'
portrait:
a conventionalized image in a Roman "portrait" bust (19th century
engraving)