Friday, May 09, 2008

Who is God's god?

In young groups, the members' fantasies play in concert to result in what Freud referred to as the group's "need to be governed by unrestricted force, its extreme passion for authority, its thirst for obedience." (Yet, who is God's god? I have often thought that the higher suicide rate among psychiatrists relative to other specialists is one tragic commentary on this dilemma. Psychotherapists who are deeply depressed and who know that they must be their own superbeing, their own ultimate rescuer, are more likely than many of their clients to plunge into final despair.)

-Irvin Yalom, The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy (5th ed.), 2005

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