Audio version read by Rev. Steven Lane Taylor, B.Msc.
“Today’s Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry in Contrast with an Enlightened Society”
Except for a few souls in this world who are mystically aware, the practice of psychology and psychiatry will not create a truly mentally healthy society. As it currently stands, the world standard for mental health is collective neurosis. The occupation of the clinical psychologist and psychiatrist is to adjust the mind to be functional in a dysfunctional society. In other words, what is called mental health is the ability to function within that which is collectively dysfunctional. The illusions of one’s personal isolation must be made to fit into the illusions and trends of whatever is considered reality in present-day society.
The basis of identity as viewed by clinical psychology and psychiatry is that the self—one’s identity—is that of a personal ego identity. That is, it’s a product of an organism bumping up against its environment through a long period of time—first to form a simple awareness of itself, and eventually to evolve into an environmentally created identity or ego. Put enough egos together and you form an ego society. For whatever reason, if one ego cannot function within the collective ego society in which it dwells, it is then considered dysfunctional, and the role of the mental health clinician is to adjust it—to get it back into step with the collective thinking or the neurosis of today’s ego society.
