fjones

fjones wrote

disable the big daddy state, it always comes to rescue: the unfair markets, the rich's bad investments, the inevitable tendency for profit to decrease, the involuntary exchange of life time for money, the wage slavery, the slum rentiers to the poor, the interest system and inflation, the military and police necessary to enforce business law, the creation of a "superior class", through management, the ruinment of nature and the earth for profit, the stockholders who extract wealth by simple ownership, the "have-mores" as bush said

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fjones wrote

This is an enormous question so I'd like to respond with more questions:

  • What are you looking for from therapy? If its someone to listen and respond to your struggles, I would recommend against Freudian psychoanalysis. Traditionally, the analyst just lets you talk and doesn't respond much. Jungian and Lacanian analysts are slightly better, though only major cities will have Jungian or Lacanian Institutes. Some MSW's are clinically licensed and have sliding scale fees ranging from zero to $40-60/hour. Most therapists will practice a mixture of therapeutic techniques from cognitive to behavior mod. I benefited more from MSW's than the Jungian analyst I saw. The MSW challenged me to change my substance abuse habits, which helped enormously.

  • What is your own formulation of the problem you're trying to fix with therapy? For instance, as Foucault showed, the very language of psychotherapy makes a "symptom" of feelings which may be culturally-based: so you may be called "ill" say, for your Indigenous (or LGBTQ, anarchist) beliefs. Please talk to a smart friend you trust and try to state your problem in your own way: see if there are not other resources around which might help you (therapy groups, massage, acupuncture, art therapy, music therapy, hypnotherapy, water therapy, herbs, etc). Institutionalized psychotherapy, in general, attempts to get the patient/client/analysand to adapt to the majoritarian reality of their society (read white & middle class). Most of the alternative therapies are nowhere near as expensive as analysis ($300/hour). Many have sliding scale fees. Your insurance may only cover 4-5 visits to an analyst.

  • Since psycho-analysis and psychotherapy both use the term "psyche" (Greek=soul) what do you, yourself mean by that word, soul, and therefore, what do you want for its care? For instance, generally, "soul" is taken to mean mental and emotional patterns of speaking, thinking, feeling and acting. For Freud it was the Ego and The Id (the unconscious). Psychoanalysis, in its most helpful aspect, should be to reveal unconscious patterns. It is seen as a therapy which has no ending since always more patterns will be revealed. There is a good book called "Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia", by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari (who was a psychotherapist) about the pitfalls of the psychoanalytic process. I have also seen zines about the practices of "co-counseling" and its benefits.

  • Finally, if your therapy is covered by insurance, you may become a liability for other insurers at other employers. Insured mental health treatment constitutes a "pre-existing condition" in some programs and you may be denied care in others. Also, employers are now using health records to screen employees, so your mental health treatment may show up with an application for another position. This is a very recent phenomenon where employers don't want employees with a mental health history. Most therapists will say "So What?" and think its better to feel better than worry about your employment future but it is an issue. Anyway...

I would leave a note with the Icarus Project, which is a self-help group & explain to them what you're going through and your internal debate:

http://nycicarus.org/

This was probably too much but I hope it was helpful. My advice: avoid giving your emotional life to state actors whenever possible! Many therapists have a distance from political empathy and err on the side of practicality, which has its merits but isn't very revolutionary. Best of Luck.

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fjones wrote

Reply to End of the World by ziq

Was wondering when this would show up here, it hasn't had much running room at anews.org. One conclusion might be that attacks on the US corporate-military-state is good for the environment and might slow/stop the collapse. Another might be that Guy McPherson, Ph.d is more invested in collapse than in slowing or stopping it, creating a feedback loop where eventually all that is heard is "We're gonna die!" We all know that already, so why not do what we can, especially because of the joy of revolt? When Hillary was asked what she thought of anti-fracking protesters, she said, "They need to get a life", whereas Obama at the G-20 in Pittsburgh said "the protesters are just mistaken." Trump and his crew are suiciding the natural populace (earth, plant, animal, water, air). Why not have a little fun and set them back on their heels?

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fjones wrote

Reply to by !deleted4371

There's a pretty amazing book researched by Daniel Hopsicker called "Barry and the Boys", which gives evidence of CIA drug running and Oswald's CIA past. Oliver Stone's JFK exposes the "grassy knoll" evidence where eyewitnesses heard shots from that direction.

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fjones wrote

Nice! Renewable energy, eco-village, rhizomatic design, humanure toilets, lots of green space, permaculture low-labor gardening, on-site specific building materials, conscious attempts not to use PVC - oil based materials whenever possible, in the north: saunas & the latest catalysts for emissions removal from heat sources, space for gathering, council bluffs, lots of play space, co-operative day care, heliport for copters built at workshops above, helicopter school, helicopter removal of plastics from ocean and support given to protest blocs, major contributions to reef health and de-acidification !!!

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fjones wrote

Pete had a very conservative side. He tried to have Bob Dylan's performance stopped at the Newport Folk Festival. This is recorded in Greil Marcus' book, "Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes". Folk music had a Canon and if you didn't play in it, you weren't welcome.

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fjones wrote

Similar to archetypes in Jungian psychoanalysis: metaphors, conditioned by the "times"; stories to which one does or doesn't relate; shorthand for complex psychodynamics; myth-based and therefore thousands of years old; always in danger of falling into interpretosis or over-interpretation; John Cage used astrology to limit his ego-choices as a chance-method, much like his compositions; literary as opposed to scientific; Dom DeLillo's book about Oswald = "Libra"; themes to watch out for in oneself - Oedipus, hero, Mars, co-dependency, Hera, Odysseus, etc.; said to compose a "collective unconscious, but obviously cultural, as chinese astrology is different from the middle eastern version, rarely derogatory towards difference (family, tribal, religious, national), impersonal descriptive device, used by royalty...

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