Because then it would be called expression instead of depression. Expression properly done is in fact the antidote for depression. And I don't pull this stuff out of a hat. It's all based in contemporary understanding. Just because something is invisible to the naked eye doesn't mean it doesn't exist. --- On Thu, 11/6/08, Donal McEvoy <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: From: Donal McEvoy <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Fwd: Pinch Me ...a message from Michael Moore To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Thursday, November 6, 2008, 11:36 AM --- On Thu, 6/11/08, Andy <mimi.erva@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The emotions of a child and pain of an adult are the same > thing. This might be termed an 'Andyism'. Therapy-speak and the uncritically held Freudian theory of the mind as a hydraulic system [so anger etc. directed inward produces depression] (why not argue, conversely, that depression is anger directed outwards) seem to characterise this POV that does not deign to offer reliable empirical tests in support of itself. Donal Doubtless merely angry and depressed ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html