tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3420173096635836108.post7182667623195808478..comments2024-02-11T18:16:53.445-08:00Comments on Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: The Simple Truth is Revolutionary: Is Drug Addiction a Disease?Arthur Janovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16709863014923629409noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3420173096635836108.post-32895751640736542372015-03-14T15:42:18.602-07:002015-03-14T15:42:18.602-07:00Hi,
"Giving an addict drugs to treat addicti...Hi,<br /><br />"Giving an addict drugs to treat addiction is absolutely insane"-.<br /><br />But it's also credible when addiction, obsession & repression rule. In this sense possession of the belief system is 9/10ths of the law. . .<br /><br />Paul G.Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02006514330039884557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3420173096635836108.post-83254236327954111072015-03-12T09:29:52.984-07:002015-03-12T09:29:52.984-07:00Hi Jan,
I look forward to take part in the meeting...Hi Jan,<br />I look forward to take part in the meeting !<br />My mail is larsson.frank@hotmail.se<br />Frank<br />Frankhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02242354226308728116noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3420173096635836108.post-61460074715192669582015-03-12T07:11:33.260-07:002015-03-12T07:11:33.260-07:00Good. artGood. artArthur Janovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18009571728800026496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3420173096635836108.post-15414056248016487262015-03-11T11:44:36.857-07:002015-03-11T11:44:36.857-07:00I am a former primal patient living in Sweden. The...I am a former primal patient living in Sweden. There has been a Primal Group in Sweden active for years, meeting regularily in Stockholm. Today however we do not meet often, but a meeting will be planned this spring.Jan Dareniusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3420173096635836108.post-79596490658179163812015-03-11T06:13:17.855-07:002015-03-11T06:13:17.855-07:00An email comment:
"Thanks Art for writing.......An email comment:<br /><em>"Thanks Art for writing.....I was an addict cured by primal therapy...I come from a home in which my father died of alcoholism...most of my young adulthood was spend getting high every day on just about everything..I had a very large drug using peer group..after primal therapy I got licensed as a therapist and ran one of the largest drug treatment centers on the west coast in Santa Monica for a time. I also ran for a time one of the largest detox centers in California. I now work in managed care an oversee about 3000 drug admits per year...my experience tells me that you are absolutely right. psychiatrists don't have a clue about the real nature of addiction..All they do is give legal drugs...like Suboxone...That are now joining Heroin on the streets as drugs of abuse...Giving an addict drugs to treat addiction is absolutely insane. But with rehab being such a lucrative business they make a fortune doing just that. psychiatrists are drug pushers and nothing more people are better off just going to meetings.</em>"Arthur Janovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18009571728800026496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3420173096635836108.post-3641111578866395862015-03-10T01:33:20.259-07:002015-03-10T01:33:20.259-07:00Hi,
furthermore, not only is it a seductive propo...Hi,<br /><br />furthermore, not only is it a seductive proposition for those on the brink but it is also a 'moral blackmail' from those who don't / can't understand the limits of free will in either themselves or (particularly) those who are ill. It is usually a judgement delivered by the HAVES on the HAVE NOTS. It is a purile justification for inequality.<br /><br />With all my heart sometimes I hate this particular form of hypocrisy because it seems to be the trigger (if not the cause) for ALL the worlds inequalities and crimes. <br /><br />Paul G.Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02006514330039884557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3420173096635836108.post-51318796280799402982015-03-10T00:17:24.021-07:002015-03-10T00:17:24.021-07:00Totally off topic but oh dear! http://www.theguard...Totally off topic but oh dear! http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/mar/09/rodent-recall-false-but-happy-memories-implanted-in-sleeping-mice?CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2planespotterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05315637682741508786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3420173096635836108.post-67949507060007920102015-03-09T12:49:49.262-07:002015-03-09T12:49:49.262-07:00Hi,
-"many others in the Behavioral Cognitiv...Hi,<br /><br />-"many others in the Behavioral Cognitive School, who think addiction is a decision, a choice both in and out of it. Make a good decision and voila, all is well. Only people who live in their head could think that-.<br /><br />It's a seductive proposition though, seductive to anyone whos gates are beginning to fail but for whom beliefs are still a powerful influence. Anyone will grasp at straws when drowning. . .<br /><br />Paul G.Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02006514330039884557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3420173096635836108.post-15036598666864045852015-03-09T04:26:29.691-07:002015-03-09T04:26:29.691-07:00My battle why Janovs primal therapy must be introd...My battle why Janovs primal therapy must be introduced in Sweden!<br /><br />When the time of death is on the agenda... then first it is also time to say goodbye! What it entails is for its time... time of what that time will make themselves known. But what I now suffering is how death courtship me at night through anxiety... it to have canser or any other disease that will take my life... it's a gruesome battle without any awareness of to be in a situation to die. For me to know that I fought this battle long ago is no comfort! To know is a long way from the feeling then. But it's actually what I am experiencing now... an symptoms for what I emotionally experienced death a long time ago. Wich is not the case now... but puts me in an experience as then. And I will be uncharitable for the rest of my life! <br /><br />There are no words for my need of help ... I only have my sufferings as evidence of what must be done... that someone hopefully knows what it is all about! Now there's no one here in Sweden! I "know" what I experience at night... but not the cause of it... and no one with the knowledge and the right to help me! Can I get closer to hell than that?<br /><br />Frank,Frankhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02242354226308728116noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3420173096635836108.post-87683787049910105092015-03-08T12:58:51.900-07:002015-03-08T12:58:51.900-07:00Hi,
ides of March is the 15th of March and an espe...Hi,<br />ides of March is the 15th of March and an especially symbolic time on the calendar. It was the date of Julius Caesars assassination, which was also a betrayal. It is the turning point in the Ice sheets from the Arctic Winter to the Arctic Spring. . .<br />It is nearly the Equinox and also for me and my family a very important date in the calendar this year due to certain 'deadlines' concerning my Grandson.<br /><br />Beware the ides of March indeed.<br /><br />Paul G. Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02006514330039884557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3420173096635836108.post-59947152396586886592015-03-07T08:56:50.345-08:002015-03-07T08:56:50.345-08:00http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/30/afgha...http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/30/afghan-opium-production-explodes-billions-spent-us-report<br />"Opium cultivation is estimated to be at an all-time high in Afghanistan, despite the US spending $7.5bn to combat it." <br />What a (controlled) combat! <br />need is big. someone has to "take care" of it, i guess. <br /><br />"ides of March"<br /> is this about danger and deception? never heard about it before.vukonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3420173096635836108.post-72186540068611773172015-03-07T00:48:49.444-08:002015-03-07T00:48:49.444-08:00Hi,
-Also, I have had recourse to see my old '...Hi,<br />-Also, I have had recourse to see my old 'bodywork psychotherapist' again (fortnightly since last July). I have realised (and begun to release) a deep lying act out I am trapped in, learned from my infancy / childhood from my parents. Basically my Mum made me feel guilty and got my Dad to take sides with her and beat up on me. This has morphed into a tendency to get into relationships with women who shift the responsibility onto me for the intimacy and initiative and then accuse me of dominating them followed by getting other men (my so called friends) to take sides with them and point the finger at me. . . Its My Act Out, and as a perfectionist how convenient a way to expose my rage and indignation (1st line) underneath, leaving me alienated and dissociated because rage is taboo.<br /><br />Fait acomplis.<br /><br />Oh wheels within wheels (you couldn't make this stuff up). My ex partner got into psychotherapy with a buddhist nun who used feminism, karma, family constellations (gestalt) and Cognitive Behavioural Theory to brainwash my partner into "cutting her losses" and dumping me and her stepson. <br />Meanwhile I was in therapy with this genuine guy who got me into my feelings. . . (Yes really).<br />This was from 2006 to 2010. Can you see the similarities?<br />Well, when I returned back to my therapist last year I was bottling up all this stuff about my ex and her 'therapist'. Then I discovered my therapist had formed a new collective of therapists all under "One Roof" including the buddhist nun. My ex was long gone but the GAME remained.<br />Last week (incandescent) I finally told my therapist about the nun. . . This broke the spell, I broke down and cried, we had a very good long hug and my mistrust of him vanished. He looked ashen and disgusted. . . I felt 'heard' and I'm sure a new thread can develop inside of my psyche. . .<br />Paul G.Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02006514330039884557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3420173096635836108.post-9422527669973165342015-03-07T00:23:32.820-08:002015-03-07T00:23:32.820-08:00Hi,
I gave up drinking and smoking for two months...Hi,<br /><br />I gave up drinking and smoking for two months last October & November. What triggered me back into my addictions was a growing sense of alienation, hopelessness and dissociation (basically pain, I got headaches, my arthritis got worse and people started bullying me even more than before, which is not surprising given how good a target someone who is 'opening up' can become). In a way having access to this blog and Art's writings makes it more difficult to 'diagnose' myself because the level of knowledge and understanding available here is so high it somewhat prejudices my 'self view' (in a potentially good way); but one thing is for sure. . . I HAD to return to my addictions. <br /><br />I have been staving off the command to get onto anti depressants because I am vociferously 'anti authoritarian'. The shrinks call my type "Counter Dependent", which is a bit oxymoronic given I'm an addict !<br />Anyway, I finally went to the Doc who gave me Mertazapine which just totally monged me out. . . Staring at the wall like a zombie was 'painless' but didn't suit my ambitions. So, I threw them away and gradually got back into smoking and drinking.<br />Just recently they changed the drink/drug driving laws here in UK and in fear of losing my license to drive I went back to the Doc who put me on Fluoxetine.<br />He warned me about the increase in anxiety which happened but now I just feel like I'm in a kind of specific psychic straight jacket. Nevertheless I can report that the 'suppressive effect' is quite specific and I have had a return of recurring nightmares with a new twist. Last night I dreamed of the upper boarding school I went to (age 13 to 17) in a way which reminded me of the dreams I used to get about the lower school I went to (age 8 to 13). . . <br /><br />Anyway, what's particularly interesting is that a pattern of dreaming has emerged where I have the symbolic nightmarish ones in the night which wake me up then I go back to sleep and have another dream which is realistic and like how Art & planespotter describe, ie: realistic, almost RE-LIVING. It seems like an orderly descent from 3rd line to second. The content of that is personal but I seem to be gaining access to a seriously split off part of my psyche from about three years old. It is possible that the fluoxetine is helping by suppressing specific intrusion from the 1st line. <br /><br />Paul G.Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02006514330039884557noreply@blogger.com