““Even when they speak of the need for "meaning and "love," therapists define love and meaning simply as the fulfillment of the patient's emotional requirements. It hardly occurs to them -- nor is there any reason why it should, given the nature of the therapeutic enterprise -- to encourage the subject to subordinate his needs and interests to those of others, to someone or some cause or tradition outside him self, love as self,sacrifice or self,abasement, "meaning' as submission to a higher loyalty -- these sublimations strike the therapeutic sensibility as intolerably oppressive, offensive to common sense and injurious to personal health and well-being. To "liberate" humanity from such outmoded ideas of love and duty has become the mission of the post-Freudian therapies and particularly of their converts and popularizers, for whom mental health means the overthrow of "inhibitions" and the nonstop celebration of the self.””
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