Posted by Marie1 on July 8, 2001, at 8:51:03
In reply to The Path to Minimal Pathology, posted by Andy123 on July 7, 2001, at 10:32:10
My shrink recommended my reading "The Wisdom of the Ego" but I never tried it because I thought it would be too over my head. (Sometimes I think my shrink thinks I'm a lot smarter than I really am). So did you like it? How much psychology is requisite to understanding it?
Marie
> I'm feeling pretty normal lately; I'd like to start a thread about how people who are in fair remission from mental illness feel they got there.
> I read this book several years ago called "The Wisdom of the Ego." It did have some psycho-jargon in it, but the take home message is that people deploy defenses with various degrees of efficacy. The author stipulated that there are two mature defenses: 1. altruism 2. humor. Another idea I wanted to post to this board (and was reminded by the thread about movies:) a psychiatrist that I went to when i was an adolescent told me that he thought that visual media were reponsible for a lot of psychopathology. He was kind of an "out there" type of psychiatrist, but I think he was right. I stopped going to movies and curbed TV watching over the last several years and i think it helps. So there are my 2 cents. Please contribute to this thread :)
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