On Manipulation, Psychology And Psychotherapy

ON MANIPULATION,
PSYCHOLOGY
AND PSYCHOTHERAPY

When we talk about manipulation we are talking about one
person in the process of trying to dehumanize another person
through devious or underhanded means. Another word for this
manipulation could simply be, “Self-Alienation”. Anytime a
person projects a false image of himself to other people the
I-Thou-True-Self-Relationship is completely lost.
In the world today it would be better to forget the concept
of trying to manipulate people and things. The sooner we stop
trying to change the world into something that it isn’t, the
sooner we can start changing ourselves toward growth and
development, instead of confusion and self-alienation.
People have manipulated other people for so long, that they
are losing their own true identity along the way. To
Manipulate is no accomplishment, anybody can manipulate
people in one way or another, but how many of us can
understand or begin to understand ourselves.
Say to yourself sometime, do I really want this, how will it
benefit me and my way of thinking, or am I just doing it
because thats the going thing. Whatever your answer may be,
make sure its an honest one, because if you lie to yourself
you’ll lie to everybody, and at the same time defeat your only
true purpose for being.
The 1984 idea of using machines as a form of
psychotherapy is ridiculous. How can a machine help me or
anyone? A machine can’t feel pain, a machine can’t love, a
machine can’t hate, a machine can’t relate human experience,
all you can expect a machine to do is draw a false, imaginary
line that says, well, if you react this way or that way you have
a normal personality.
This impersonal method of Psychotherapy will only
increase self-alienation and nothing more. Can’t you just see it
now, you see your friend, you say, “Hi Jim, where are you
going?” he says, “Oh, I’m going to talk to my machine they
call a psychiatrist.
The only way to solve a problem is to confront it and deal
with it as is, because the longer you run, the worse it becomes,
and eventually you break down and cease to exist.
We must stop trying to look for the easy way out, because
there isn’t any.
The sooner we as people can look at ourselves as a moving
force or part involved in the total mechanism, and not as
something set aside from everyone else, then and only then
will our world and its people be ready to accept life as it really
is.