Quoth Louis, in part: > Finally, on the question of whether psychotherapy can help people. For > everyday garden variety neurosis, there simply is no evidence that it can. > The reason for this should be obvious. Capitalism is the main source of > unhappiness, although people are not conscious of its effects on their > lives. Alienation is generated by the system itself. One of the reasons I > have spent so much time reading and writing about primitive communism is > that the evidence points in the direction of this type of unhappiness as > being historically determined, and not a function of the human psyche as > such. If you haven't already encountered James Hillman, you really should. valis