Re: Treating symptoms

Henry,

If I understand the idea: The symptom may be a clue that is important in its own right. It is the context or meaning the person give to the symptom that is most important. The symptom is not what drove the person to treatment (even though they suffer from it). What dives the person to treatment is their difficulty with social reality and its requirements and demands. The symptom could be a "creative fiction" to mask the conflict with social reality. It is the non-acceptance of social reality that leads the person to create a mistaken style of living. When the person begins to understand the purpose of their ficitional goal they can begin to re-adjust their course.

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Re: Symptoms and Change, by Henry Stein, 5/1/97

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