There are a great many factors surrounding the control of the pc’s body by a pc. Most pcs feel their body if tampered with in any way would fly out of control and flip-flop all over the floor, would suddenly freeze or would get ill, and they have anxieties about their bodies and the control […]
catatonic schizophrenia
Lecture: Aberration and the Sixth Dynamic (3)
But death itself becomes an unwanted, a very painful and an extremely difficult mechanism. But it was once a therapeutic mechanism. It was once one way to get out of the game you were tired of playing, and one could do it rather easily; he could do it at any time. It is today no […]
Lecture: Handling Psychotics (2)
The problem here is that of accessibility. The Standard Procedure Chart has right under its heading “(For Accessible Cases).” I have talked earlier about accessibility1, and the least accessible character of them all is the psychotic. That’s what it means. He is inaccessible. If we modified our terminology to make it a little more workable, […]
Lecture: Handling Psychotics (1)
This gives you a sample of some of the bizarre methods that can be adopted to regain accessibility. Another one is followed by Dr. Frieda Fromm Reichman. She will go into a cell with the toughest, meanest, orneriest psychotics imaginable, and by a process of acting crazier than they act bring them out of it. […]
Lecture: Starting Off A New Preclear
Almost the entire effort of psychiatry is leveled at accessibility. It is so interesting to the psychiatrists after it has been achieved that they will normally say this person is a remission. That’s right They have achieved accessibility on the case. This is no blast on psychiatry; this is their modus operandi. They get the […]
Lecture: Analytical Mind (1)
A person can drive down the street never seeing a stop light, never paying any attention to what he is doing, but doing it well because an attention unit is sitting right there, watching what he is doing and in communication with the other attention units. In case of an emergency it goes click! bang! […]