Posted by Honore on September 3, 2007, at 18:53:57
In reply to Re: Is 'Dr. Sanity' an undiagnosed BPD? *Triggers* » Quintal, posted by RealMe on September 3, 2007, at 14:40:18
I regret that you're uncomfortable with the thread RealMe. Most therapists have had their own personal struggles, and that seems to make people more capable in many instances of understanding and working well as therapists.
So I think the only thing one can say about this woman is that she has made a strange, although not unprecedented, mistake about diagnosing political points of view with psychiatric categories. It never makes sense to reduce a political point of view to a diagnosis-- especially in a pejorative way, as she did.
It's not valid to suggest that a psychiatric diagnosis, or emotional difficulty, prevents one from being a good therapist, or from making valid judgments about whether one is capable of working as a therapist. These are very complex and personal judgments.
Both are ways of looking at one problem or sphere and confusing with another one-- political or professional. There really isn't any easy correspondence among these things.
But I'm really sorry if that came across in anything that was written, by me or anyone else.
Honore
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