I can't help feeling that the current assault on childhood therapy here and elsewhere is rooted more in subjective philosophy and politics than in objective science. In particular, this trend seems to reflect an almost religious faith in the beneficial properties of suffering and the fatalism that attends the Biblical view that humans li…
I can't help feeling that the current assault on childhood therapy here and elsewhere is rooted more in subjective philosophy and politics than in objective science. In particular, this trend seems to reflect an almost religious faith in the beneficial properties of suffering and the fatalism that attends the Biblical view that humans live in a fallen creation.
I am also justifiably wary of absolute statements like the following:
"The role of societal messaging and the mindfulness movement in perpetuating the idea that negative experiences can always be traced back to childhood trauma or parenting mistakes."
I would think that the hosts of this podcast would be sufficiently sophisticated to eschew assertions that employ words such as "always" because they're simply not credible.
Furthermore, since common sense and life experience support the notion that poor parenting (which is real) and childhood trauma (which is also real) can cause emotional and psychological harm that continues into adulthood, the burden is on the hosts of the podcast and/or their guests to make a convincing case for other causal factors. Rhetorical statements such as the foregoing passage have a harmful invalidating effect without giving people any other way of understanding their lives.
I can't help feeling that the current assault on childhood therapy here and elsewhere is rooted more in subjective philosophy and politics than in objective science. In particular, this trend seems to reflect an almost religious faith in the beneficial properties of suffering and the fatalism that attends the Biblical view that humans live in a fallen creation.
I am also justifiably wary of absolute statements like the following:
"The role of societal messaging and the mindfulness movement in perpetuating the idea that negative experiences can always be traced back to childhood trauma or parenting mistakes."
I would think that the hosts of this podcast would be sufficiently sophisticated to eschew assertions that employ words such as "always" because they're simply not credible.
Furthermore, since common sense and life experience support the notion that poor parenting (which is real) and childhood trauma (which is also real) can cause emotional and psychological harm that continues into adulthood, the burden is on the hosts of the podcast and/or their guests to make a convincing case for other causal factors. Rhetorical statements such as the foregoing passage have a harmful invalidating effect without giving people any other way of understanding their lives.