Posted by Willful on April 21, 2012, at 3:25:22
In reply to Re: Occupy the APA » zazenducke, posted by SLS on April 21, 2012, at 2:29:28
I may be an exception, but I don't have any problem with the word normal, or the idea that the normal is essentially a type of norm.
And I'm not at all sure that anyone is normal, in the negative sense of the word--- a soul-dead, empty embracer of the status quo, with no imagination, empathy, or much wit. And at the same time, I think we all are as normal as it gets. What matters more is how kind, thoughtful and disciplined in one's goals one is. And that has nothing to do with normal or not normal at all, that I know.
Maybe we just make up this idea to torment outselves-- or to make ourselves feel better-- both-- and project it onto others whose inner lives we can't and don't try to imagine.
Plus I don't think the APA is a promoter of normality--- helping people in difficulties doesn't require any notion of normality to have some sort of goal And maybe systematizing a field leads to seeming denigration-- but maybe also it helps therapists who look for some twig to hold onto in the stream.
I don't know.
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