After a while they come back and then the same phenomenon occurs. Friendly faces. Nothing to worry about. ‘Doing good’ seems evident.<\/p>\n
Is everything okay?<\/p>\n
But let us look a little bit deeper now<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
(because you are a \u2018special kind of therapist’) and what might<\/em> we see? All kinds of things are possible. For example: people turn to you with a smoking addiction and they immediately get a few cigarettes from you and a good stock of the white thingies. Hm. They leave relieved and are glad they came along. Friendly faces. Everything is okay?<\/p>\n
Or more generally: people come with a general addiction and you immediately give something general and also a good stock of generality … Hm. You see: why they come and how they leave gets a different meaning because of this, or not? (You can reread this paragraph later on.)<\/p>\n
How far should one go?<\/p>\n
How deep should one go?<\/p>\n
Lots of serious addicts start their pernicious career with hard drugs\u2026 on prescription.<\/p>\n
Addiction to superficiality knows many adepts within health care. Their high priest is called ‘Placebo’.<\/p>\n
How far should one go?<\/p>\n
Were missionaries ‘correct’ by being contrary to the culture of indigenous populations? Or do we see thing ‘more correct’ if we notice that just a lot of problems were the result of it?<\/p>\n
Somewhat (but not overly) generalizing, one can say: a weight-reducing diet ‘works’, but it is usually a pendulum that returns stronger than it left. Is ‘helping’ someone at following a weight-reducing diet, ‘doing good’? Not evident.<\/p>\n
A lot of alternative medicines are, in theory, clearly based on nothing. <\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Is this innocent? Or do the people who feel helped eventually end up in a negative spiral?<\/p>\n
The latter is quite possible.<\/p>\n
It’s even likely.<\/p>\n
Is it worth it?<\/p>\n
It cannot be said more powerfully than reality itself does it.<\/p>\n
It’s not because someone laughs, that it is clear that \u2018the good has been done’ for that person. <\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
It might even be the case that in the meantime for this person something entirely different is being done.<\/p>\n
It’s possible!<\/em><\/p>\n
And it has so often been the case. Hiding our head in the sand concerning this matter, would be inappropriate.<\/p>\n