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There's a strong utopian pragmatics to EFT, that the patient be directed to grow; to expand, integrate, take in more of their being; to suffer no dwelling, spirals, and upended becomings, as if restriction itself were self directed violence. But it's only in a totally atomised life that oppression becomes the actions of one. Isn't a coach always addressing a team? And before the coach, was there not the rule maker?
— May 05, 2025 03:41PM
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xenia
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This is okay. It's essentially gestalt therapy shot through the framework of discrete emotion theory. A gradualist step, which is important, but I'm not learning much. Acceptance of emotion leads to transformation of emotion. Integration of more emotions leads to more flexible action tendencies. Growth is knowing there're always alternatives to reach you ends. Idk, you may get as much just watching Inside Out.
— May 07, 2025 12:21AM
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Decided to give this book another go, and the second edition is waaay better. Leslie cuts out all the problematic rhetoric about emotional intelligence being a higher stage of civilisation, etc etc. Glad he realised how messed it was to essentially, if not explicitly, call traumatised people savages.
— May 03, 2025 07:26AM
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And, well, let's not even get into the investor who funded the field.
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Who was the investor? Does it have an impact on interpreting the political context of the theory?
Oh that was just an extension of my stupid football metaphor, lol.It's very telling with therapy developed in the US, what kind of political subject they normalise, because the entire book will focus on the individual, then three chapters will be slapped on at the end about the therapy's applicability to couples, families, and communities.
