When I was reading Freud I was young and didn’t know anymore about the power of love than the average person. I was surprised to see he said “it is love that heals”.
It was years later that I experienced unconditional love. It was the missing piece of the puzzle of life. I was amazed how quickly all the questions were answered.
The more assumptions you make the less you know. Now that doesn’t mean I didn’t understand Freud, I just understood him better along with Jesus, Confucius, and many other Master Teachers. Their work survives through the years because it is understood by more and more people each year. I can’t make anyone love, I can only show them the path. It is their decision whether to follow it or not. It is an easy path but long and patience is needed to gain the goal.
Freud neve said any such thing. Further, saying “love heals” is fucking stupid. It suggests that people with persisting problems of depression, schizophrenia, autism and so on aren’t loved.
It is brain dead pablum. Woo. Nonsense. Being loved is an inherently good thing. It is a protective charm only in Harry Potter books and such.
Something to think about. People with so-called mental illness generally don’t like themselves. Some hate themselves enough to commit suicide. That lack of love for themselves causes the problems. When people love themselves they don’t have a lot of problems.
You’ve got cures? It seems to me you’ve got hubris, but I could be wrong. Through what rigorous process did you develop your skills or abilities to cure others?
You got it backwards, I don’t cure anyone, but I can teach them to cure themselves.
I know of no rigorous process, actually it is simple. it is learned.
For people who have problems like depression? Yes, you could probably say that - not that anything as vague as “love heals” helps much. For problems like schizophrenia it’s preposterous and wrong.
When I owned a business I hired a person who was diagnosed schizophrenic. He was in a mental hospital at the time. His brother worked for me and asked for my help. The first two years were shaky but he went on to become a driver for me for thirteen years without any pills. I do know that the labels they put on mental patients can vary widely but this story is true. He is dead now from lung cancer. He smoked a lot.
‘Guy with schizophrenia becomes a truck driver and then smokes himself to death’ doesn’t sound like a cure to me. It sounds like a guy just barely scraping along with a serious problem and not really overcoming it. And that’s if we assume lekatt remembers this correctly.
“It is the physician’s love that heals the patient” is a saying attributed* to Sandor Ferenczi, who was an early 20th century European psychoanalyst and had the initials S.F. but was not actually the same person as Sigmund Freud.
*The brief Google Books search I just did wasn’t enough to verify whether Ferenczi ever really said such a thing, but a number of other authors have used the quote and credited him with it.
I can’t swear that untreated schizophrenia could never go into remission but it would be rare.
Combine that with the fact that you say so many things that are simply untrue, and I have to say that I just do not believe this happened.
As for people hating themselves, you gave a perfectly wooey answer. But people hating themselves is not the cause of depression. Further, people with anxiety disorders don’t particularly hate themselves. People with ADHD don’t especially hate themselves. People with autism don’t hate themselves.
Love heals is simply facile woo. Pablum more fit for children’s stories.
If you search “doctors and love heals” you will find many doctors saying that love heals. I am very surprised that there are detractors to that concept. It is very common and accurate. Spiritual writings are also in agreement. It is true that love heals and it works especially well on mental and emotional problems.
Love heals pretty much the way chicken soup heals.
Yeah, it’s good. Actually, very good.
But when you’ve got liver cancer, it just isn’t going to cut it. And the same for severe mental illness. Love won’t bring a schizophrenic back to reality.
You get what you believe you will get. True, a person must be able to communicate before much can be done for him. But many have had cancer remissions with the reason unknown. Love remains a powerful healer whether believed in or not.
That’s funny-His bio says that he is a retired pediatrician that left the practice back in 1989, not a currently practicing “cancer doctor”. He hasn’t treated anyone with “love”-he just talks about it a lot.
No, you won’t. Aside from sounding like a bad Hallmark card, this blames sick people for their own problems. Recent studies show that your attitude doesn’t matter when you’re facing a serious illness. It’s too bad that this myth won’t die, but it’s obvious that some people find it comforting to believe that sick people brought their problems on themselves and that their “positive” attitude protects them from getting sick.