Maggie's Farm

"(A communal site without a shrink
is like a canoe without a paddle.)" - BD

allow me to disagree,BD.

sometimes the cure is worse than the disease.

you may have heard Victor Davis Hanson lament over
'the Therapeutic Culture' and its offspring.

I recently came across a writer who may have been the source of his viewpoint,
and suggest you give his writings a look:

Philip Rieff...

The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith after Freud
here:
http://tinyurl.com/6gzjvh


and his catalog on amazon.com here:
http://tinyurl.com/5lg6ha


and an overview of his work here:

Sociology and the Sacred: An Introduction to Philip Rieff's Theory of Culture (Hardcover)
by Antonius A.W. Zondervan

http://tinyurl.com/6nna76

Product Review:
The acclaimed American sociologist and cultural philosopher Philip Rieff gained great academic prestige with his thesis on the emergence of ‘Psychological Man' in western culture and with his classic book, Freud: The Mind of the Moralist, published in 1959. In this work and the later The Triumph of the Therapeutic (1966) he not only offered a highly original interpretation of the work of Sigmund Freud, but critically evaluated the enormous influence of psychotherapeutic thinking on Western culture. However, Rieff's later work on the theory of culture did not garner the same attention, and his most recent writings have received very little critical engagement.