Rage….And The Start Of Relational Psychotherapy
Hi, my name is Len, Director of Len Ramsay & Associates. We are an Ontario Based firm with a professional and dedicated staff that provides Counselling and Psychotherapy services in Toronto and Greater Toronto Area. This month’s article focuses on “Rage…and the start of relational Psychotherapy”. Rage impacts your daily life. The best way to manage the potentially crippling impact of rage is to acquire as much knowledge as possible about the condition and learn some new techniques for managing it. Feel free to contact our Counselling and Psychotherapy team at 844-332-3469 or 416-917-3546 for a free no obligation consultation of your situation today. The political situation in the US following Super Tuesday 2016, hot on the heels of John Oliver’s show on Donald Trump https://www.facebook.com/LastWeekTonight/videos/851020811693596/ brings me to write about a very specific choice in therapy: how to move forward depending on some conditions the client presents. For Trump, emotions in his supporting public are raging and obliterating any connection to the reality of the social fabric of tolerance and co-operation. The levels of outright lying and of less obvious deceptions are very high. The level of language sophistication has fallen well below a grade 8 level. The ethic of "might is right" has ascended to obliterate sense in receptive listeners like the rampant growth of cancer obliterates sensation in a human body through a trajectory of escalating pain, ending in death. Might is not right, whether it is physical or symbolic. Violence is not the ultimate expression of human being or of human doing but rather an extension - a perversion - of healthy assertion which yields boundary creation and enforcement. Money is not the ultimate value and enabler of violence but rather a symbolic currency of exchange, and also healthy.