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What Are Minds Made of?

By Hara Estroff Marano on February 5, 2008 in Brainstorm

The idea of a pill to eliminate self-loathing didn't slip into the woman's head from out of nowhere. Some element of our culture promotes the belief that a prescription can just wipe away the most profound mental discomfort—as if discomfort isn't the natural (and necessary) response to deeply disturbing events. As if one can eliminate self-loathing without eliminating the self. Read More

Agreed!

Submitted by Jennifer on February 29, 2008 - 8:39am.

I loved what you wrote, Hara: "That our society thinks we can kill off self-loathing without killing off the 'Self'" (paraphrasing). What great insight between the Self and the body that carries our Self. Wouldn't you agree that self-loathing comes when one doesn't even know there's a distinction in the two?

Thanks for this one!
Jennifer Ryan, M.Ed., NCC, LPC
Naked Truth Coach
http://www.ichoosechange.com

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Hara Estroff Marano is Editor at Large of Psychology Today and writes the magazine's advice column, Unconventional Wisdom. She is also the author of A Nation of Wimps: The High Cost of Invasive Parenting.

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