Well done! I think that your response makes it evident that Psychoanalysis is translatable and
at the same time can be understood in typical english.

Daryl Spidaliere, MS
New Hampshire Psychoanalytic Society


> ** Original Subject: Re: My Challenge
> ** Original Sender: Peter Grant <[log in to unmask]>
> ** Original Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 13:03:14 -0500

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> Hmmmm...let's see, use plain English to discuss psychoanalysis. I've always
> thought that that's the thing to do, so we should start by asking something
> like, "what is psychoanalysis?" Well, it is an approach to helping people
> who feel and behave in ways that are troubling most of all to them to
> become more effective in the conduct of their lives, and to become more
> comfortable in the living of their lives and to achieve more enduring
> satisfactions. This is reminiscent of Freud's famous work and love idea.
> Psychoanalysis happens when two people get together for the purpose of
> understanding and helping one of them get some benefit such as I have
> described.
>  All the rest is theory, and it can be quite interesting or quite dull,
> depending on who is doing what to whom, and who is describing it.
> In psychoanalysis, you usually find that the problem, not surprisingly, has
> its origins in more distant times, usually traceable to early childhood and
> the ways in which the child struggled to adapt to complex and difficult
> emotional living conditions. This early learning seems to linger on with
> great tenacity and it seems to take a lot of work, understanding,
> recognition, hope, encouragement, need, etc, to make even little bitty
> changes. Often these little bitty changes seem worth it to the person who
> seeks the change--sometimes they don't. Well, is this what you are looking
> for?
>
>
> Peter Grant, Ph.D.

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