Adult emotional development The idea I want to explore today is that while the tools of psychiatry have been collected together because of their effectiveness in making people less distressed or less behaviourally disturbed, they are from a variety of different basic philosophies that don't fit together in any other way. Because of this they are not very useful if we are trying to divine fundamental truths about the human condition. And fundamental truths are what I am after, in order to have an integrated basis from which to provide help. Psychiatric tools have been partially helpful to the individual or to society. They have, as is natural, been subverted in one way or another by capitalism or state control or whatever. But the basic problem remains that in psychiatry we don't have a reliable framework for understanding all human distress that points to solutions for individuals. One of the biggest and most persistent complaints from outside the system is the transition fr...
