Saturday, March 6, 2010

portrait of school students (8-10) standing in thoughtful poses

Psychoanalysis - To Believe Or Not To Believe

Many adult behaviors are attributed to the psychoanalyzing of his/her childhood. What traumas in one's early existence caused him to be a such a jackass today? Is she neurotic mass of insecurity about men, because she had no father as a child? I am sure some of a person's personality, and life choices has to do with what he may have experienced in his younger life, but adults should, also, take responsibility for their own behaviors.

Although,someone may have had a rough childhood it does not give him a license to be a menace. Having said that, I do believe that proper therapy or psychoanalysis can help someone get over things in one's past that may be producing negative affects in a person's daily emotional life. Some traumas are so devastating, therapy is, really, the only way to deal with them.

So, I suppose psychoanalysis is a double-edge sword. The importance of digging through past experiences in order to cure oneself can be invaluable. However, harming others because of those issues is not acceptable, in my humble opinion.