The Effects of The Case of Dora

And how am I feeling, I am actually feeling great. What more can a person want than to design their own life! In time going back when it seemed even impossible to deal with the moment, one would have never of thought it would be possible to actually choose a life worth living. They say that knowledge is power, however I take things one step further and say knowledge is not just the art of knowing but the driver behind letting go of the past, isn't it. As I go deeper and deeper into the art of Freud’s thinking I am beginning to see the energy he invested in proving his theories in developmental stages but I am relieved when he comes to the conclusion that the real art is in focussing on what the client has to bring and using this material to serve the client. Incidentally, Jesus some time ago was a great example of washing his disciples feet!

So where am I? Half way through finding out how psychoanalysis was born, from what I am beginning to understand it was from Freud’s greatest failures like the Dora case. Seems like, she realised that she had had enough of being used by other people, possibly including Freud with his 'scientific detachment approach' that he so brilliantly learnt from Charchot; skills they both developed likened to barristers or private investigators! That is, at least until he discovered the importance of transference. "Thanks Dora, deep down inside I think we agree on the desire to be heard  and listened to and I share my sympathy with your symptom of aphonea".

The other half or part of me is in a tranquail venue of Queen Anne Gardens but don’t be misled, my limiting beliefs and procrastinations surrounding my career are being challenged to a heightened level by blowing my boundaries of holding on to that “part” for security in doing what I have always done in that area of my life.

Thus bringing the two disciplines of psychology and coaching together, or by integrating the parts, if you can from different polaritiess has somewhat cleared the air in understanding my past much better and pinpointing some significant events that has led me to choose a path to helping others. One could also say that blowing all those boundaries into the universe from a coaching aspect has had a miniature explosion in my head of asking “what is stopping me now from getting on with my business and living the life I want to live?”.

Overall I must say that the timeline that I see in my minds eye tells me that I am good enough, that change is fluid, regardless of what happened in the past, I can change my mind now as to how I feel about it and I can love the experience of the “now” a whole lot better than I have done before. Well having looked at hysteria from an impesonal and personal point of view for the past 8 weeks, its time to move on to paranoia or "obsessional neurosis", yet another aspect of certain dramas!   I am not sure what this has to do with religion, but I am sure Freud will have a take on it, but I doubt whether it will change my belief in The Creator.