Theos-Talk Archives (December 2002 Message tt00600)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Mic Forster <micforster@y...> 
wrote:
> Good 'ol economic rationalists, you just HAVE to love
> them!!

The people who project trends think methods which either do not work 
or which go on and on (with payments to the doctor all that time( 
will probably decline over time as insurance companies, governments, 
and private citizens balk at the cost. You have to admit, if a 
psychoanalyst wants to use you for a lifetime sinecure there may be a 
fonclict of interest between your desire to get results and his 
desire to get paid. Roger Callahan claims the ability to clear a 
phobia in less than five minutes. He charges several thousand 
dollars for that five minutes on the theory that a psychoanalyst 
would charge you more than that, take years, and leave you with still 
a pHobia.

The way I see it, if I took my car in for a tuneup and the mechanic 
told me it would take twenty years of psychoanalysis with ho 
guarantee ofresrults (and in fact that nobody had even been known tio 
get any results) I would think it was time for some reforms in the 
auto repair business.

> Although Jung's methods are cumbersome for our quick
> fix meat pie in 30 seconds society his reasoning
> behind those methods, especially from a theosophical
> stand point, have to be admired.

Jung did not write to be understood, and his theory of personality 
can be best understood by reading a good textbook. It is quite 
interesting and different from the theosophical theories.