Hi ,

I am also advertising in this Magazine as a therapist from New Jersey,Highland Park. In fact I just completed my post yesterday. What struck me , in reading other therapists's posts was that morality and character, virtue and personal responsibility are never mentioned. these concepts do not seem to fit into the psychodymanic model.

I was very pleased to hit upon your blog. It is great that you dared to say what should have b een obvious for some time. It is a very good piece.

I need to think a little more deeply... for my own benefit... if the characterization of psychopathology as negative and the character/morality approach as positive is not too sharp.
I agree with your points wholeheartedly,but like to suggest that approaching matters from the ange of personal responsibility, living up to one's creed, values, conscience etc. is not just "positive" but it is right. It is more in harmony with commonsense and indeed , human nature.As a healing method it has so much more promise than cogitating on how other people screwed me up. Spending a few years on that is enough to make one depressed.
So , thanks for sharing your thoughts.

Thank you for your kind comment; I bet you're a good therapist and your patients are helped by your focus on personal responsibility as opposed to blame.