The myth of the lust for free life and so-called self-realization
Barolin, G.S.
Wiener Medizinische Wochenschrift 144(16): 383-387
1994
ISSN/ISBN: 0043-5341 PMID: 7856211 Document Number: 438023
There exists a present tendency for immediate satisfaction of desires and pleasures, as well in our western civilization in general, as propagated by some commercialized psychotherapy (with good sales results of books with title and contents as "Don't be good!" [?]; interrogation-mark set by me). Such educational tendency is opposed to a number of human inborn laws such as 1) need of getting to know one's limits and to accept them, 2) evolution of tolerance for frustration without which interhuman communication can not be kept alive, 3) the law that human beings are social beings. By no means we want to propagate a rigid doctrinary and mainly frustrating system of education. The golden path in between the extremes is here (as always) the most difficult. The "integrated psychotherapy", inaugurated and advocated by us, wants to show this way in psychotherapy. Outside psychotherapy too, within the general rules of (academic) education, the here given words may help to find this "golden path in between".