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Originally Posted by archipelago
Here is what I came across just scanning:
"Whatever complaints the patient may have," says Fromm, "whatever symptoms he may present are rooted in his inability to love, if we mean by love a capacity for the experience of concern, responsibility, respect, and understanding of another person and the intense desire for that other person's growth. . . . Analytic therapy is essentially an attempt to help the patient gain or regain his capacity for love" (Psychoanalysis and Religion).
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Like SD, I don't at all believe that, but I'm not a big proponent of psychoanalytic theory for the most part. This seems to be using "love" in a very broad, watered down, inaccurate sense.
I'd more willing to agree with the mental health symptoms many experience come from having NOT been treated with care or concern or responsibility or respect rather than somehow their mental health problems stemming from their own inability to do so. Sound like victim-blaming the way this quote phrases it, although I realize it is pulled completely without context.