Hell, I am not a psychoanalyst. But I have read a few books on Berne’s Transactional Analysis as well as Jaques Lacan’s teachings, etc. All is well for me regarding psychoanalysis. Reading the aforementioned materials made me more keenly aware of my own conditions, less so about others. Although, I can now ‘see’ things in communities and societies that were unbeknown to me just a decade ago. No kidding…

This post is simply a plug for group therapy. I think that especially religious communities and their members can benefit from group therapy. Why? Because religious communities are sometimes afflicted by religious folks who passionately hang on to wishful idealism, that is, by ideas about the unreal wishful as codified in dogmas and doctrines. This is too bad because it is largely done at the expense of actual people who become then dismissable as sacrificial lambs to be shepherded into the ethereal fantasy.

There seems to be much to talk about. Will you let me know what you think after reading this essay, please?

https://aeon.co/essays/why-didnt-group-therapy-become-a-psychoanalysis-for-the-people