the talking cure...

In principle is this.

from the start the key is what does the person say from the first moment you meet.

if they wont speak then take a hike.

not your job to go sifting through freudian nunaces for archaic memory.

the unconscious but that is not the issue at hand here.

feelings are innate but cannot be given  names till the human learns language.

only later do they become attached to intentional and unintentional acts.

on the  end of the scale are the psychoses and at the other end are the neuroses and character disorders all of which take a large amount of mental intestinal fortitude and good support  to understand and comprehend mental functioning outside of the psychbologists laboratory.

what is really happening to a person and what can be done.

It takes a special person to specialise in special circumstances.

Back to the talking cure.

There is no cure as such but simply and I repeat simply relieving the person of their un named fears and enabling them to face reality.

day to day in reality people are doing this for themelves in their relationships and social intercourse and it is happening automatically so to speak.

thats it. 

you see there is always truth in what people say even if they are telling a lie so it is your job to find the real reason from the good reason and what the person is really saying. 

in the end to get good at this you have to read history, anthropology,  a soupcon of philosophy and the commentaries on freud (peter gay) to really grapple with the subject.

in the ned it is not something you learn and then put into practice but a calling to a lifetime of making sense of the world.

good luck

for light relief

and dick is a test to see who can fork out a few bucks to acquire something of inestimable value without doing a bourgeois flinch. 

oh and beware the charlatans and other deviants who practice for their own reasons and the ones who were no good at pottery or weaving and took up counselling believing that even though they had failed at everything else they could by virtue of their social caste have the ability to persuade a sick person to change from moral authority or by reasoning with them.