Friday, 19 June 2009
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Carry Me Down
By M. J. Hyland
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The theme is Freudian. A boy's parents are a handsome couple. He loves his mother and hates his father. He's going through puberty and contemplates the body of his best male friend. It is an influential age that makes or breaks, him, that determines his preference. We look at the young boys as if their actions are intentionally criminal. They're mostly just ill informed choiced of the moment that do not mean to harm. They are as much the victims of their environment and raging hormones as the environment becomes their victims.
But reading this makes me think that Freud perhaps applies only to the beautiful mothers and (for girls) strong fathers. It does not mean that the figure is constantly 'mother', 'father'. Parents are the closest thing to love, afterall. Heterosexual boys are generally attracted to beautiful females, and heterosexual girls to strong males. It is therefore reasonable that they should sometimes attach their first awakening feelings on their parents. Some animals, to avoid incest, chase away the teenagers in puberty.
Psychiatrists like to believe their patients have one kind of disorder or another. That way, they can feel that they've put all their education to some use - a diagnostic. Some psychiatrists do not realize this and continue to lable people as dissociative disorder, borderline personality, schizophrenia, manic depressed, suicidal tendencies...etc. They victimize people through their need to affirm their profession, to see these people as 'clinically ill' and in need of their assistance. If they don't live up to their education and try to establish some form of diagnostic, they'd probably realize that they're pretty helpless and useless. The people who enter the profession are frequently those wanting to help others, to be in charge by bringing a professional note to their ability to help, to (possibly) make a good impact on society.
Consultation is, more often than not, a medicine based on belief. It requires a certain maturity and wisdom on the part of the practician that is rarely gained through a degree.
More often than not, the patients are simply sad, helpless humans who are feeling overwhelmed by life at the moment and thus act in confusion. Medical school teaches that mental disorders and often lifelong and permanent - but I believe that there are even more cases that are not lifelong and permanent, or could be not lifelong and permanent, if an attitude of acceptance, consideration, understanding and healing were employed. In this age and time, we humans are faced with a need to be multi-talented at various skills - of ingesting the vast amounts of (more often than not) trivial information, of connecting with others, of establishing our own personal cultures instead of simply relying on tradition (which is under constant attack), of loving people, of trying to be good citizens...etc. No wonder we're all going a little 'mad'.
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