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Good & Bad Therapy. Or, have we reached "peak trauma"? A conversation with Robert Rowland Smith

Inner Life, Talks and Thoughts

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The Relationship Between Psychotherapy and Warfare

The relationship between psychotherapy and warfare has a deep history. Freud saw people who came back from the first world war and before, and wondered why they kept visiting their traumatic things in dreams. The vast majority of people encounter these forms of suffering at some point. But rather than treating them as that which you should ideally be free of, get over them, ask yourself if you have misunderstood something about life itself.

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