Alchemy and Psychotherapy by Mathers Dale

Author:Mathers, Dale
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781317801047
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CAM)

“Helpers’ Syndrome” as the incapacity that has grown to become part of the character structure, to express – and, I would add, even to become aware of – one’s own feelings and needs, combined with the seemingly omnipotent, impregnable fa×ade in the area of social services.

(1982, p. 12)

Schmidbauer gives a chilling example in the form of a nightmare in which a care-worker traces a whimpering sound to a garden shed where he discovers a skeletal child, half dead from thirst, covered with dirt and cobwebs, wedged in between old junk (ibid., p. 15). Is it this that too many analysts ‘need to hide out of sight’, as it were? Is the subject of self-neglect not being touched because it is ‘too close to the bone’, ‘touches a raw nerve’? Often it seems that men tend to be easier cut off from their feelings, their needy selves, as the ratrace in the ‘Overwork Culture’ (Bunting, 2004b) seems to encourage characteristics which may traditionally be regarded as masculine: the manic defense of hunting for more, more and more, ever higher achievements in order not to have to bother with the near-corpse in the shed of the unconscious. Recently, the Financial Times asked, ‘Charming, materialistic, aggressive, self-centred, Machiavellian, thrill-seeking alpha males with little respect for rules who eat stress for breakfast – sound like a banker you know? If so, think again: it is a summary of the traits of psychopaths’ (Mackintosh, 2011). The spiritual teacher Eckart Tolle comments:

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