Letters to the Editor
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Self-centeredness
After the 911 attacks, surveys of survivors found out that 'talk' therapy -going over and over the trauma - actually increased the trauma. Of course the psycho-analytic industry and the legions of para-shrinks didn't like that report.
Same with 'talk' therapy at home. Forgetting is actually a sign of mental health. Of course if you forget everything, it is a sign of socio-pathic behavior. Sometimes you do have to talk about things, but many men seem to have survived without beating everything to death. Many soldiers actually don't want to talk about what happened in their 'war,' for very good reasons.
The heart of this kind of thing, I think, is just a kind of thirst for self-centered attention. Especially when it is a long running situation. Talk therapy at it's best is supposed to reveal something unknown, not keep digging up the known.