Carter and Evans

03/27/2026

What is Encouragement in Therapy
It is the realization of the individual's responsibility, which he cannot assume without realizing his own strengths. By making him aware of how he makes himself sick, we give him the realization that he can also make himself well. We show him what he is doing. He may not like it because he doesn't want to feel responsible for what he is doing; but he can't escape eventually from finding out that not his emotions, his complexes, his nature, his constitution, nor even his parents are responsible, but he, himself; and only he, not they, can save himself. In my mind, such realization implies becoming a free person. Realizing the tremendous power which we have, we know that we can make ourselves well and sick, that we can play weak when it suits our purposes, and play strong when we prefer to do so. We can create our own fears for whatever advantages may lie in
withdrawal, or for putting others in our service; or we can free
ourselves of our fears. This kind of reorientation is the effect of all therapeutic efforts. It is a moral rehabilitation, a spiritual one.

R. Dreikurs

12/08/2025

09/18/2025

View George Gazda's obituary, send flowers and sign the guestbook.

08/11/2025

Risperdal a horrible drug over prescribed for foster care children. Worth reading

How we redefined schizophrenia and helped drive one of the most successful (and concerning) pharmaceutical launches in history.

08/07/2025

Our prescription drugs are the third leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer (1). Based on the best research I could find, I have estimated that psychiatric drugs [...]More...

08/12/2024

01/24/2024

The America My Parents Fought in a War to Create and Maintain, Not Sure What Happen? Greed?
Robert Kennedy on GNP
If we believe that we, as Americans, are bound together by a common concern for each other, then an urgent national priority is upon us. We must begin to end the disgrace of this other America.
And this is one of the great tasks of leadership for us, as individuals and citizens this year. But even if we act to erase material poverty, there is another greater task, it is to confront the poverty of satisfaction - purpose and dignity - that afflicts us all. Too much and for too long, we seemed to have surrendered personal excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things.
Our Gross National Product, now, is over $800 billion dollars a year, but that Gross National Product - if we judge the United States of America by that - that Gross National Product counts air pollution and cigarette advertising, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage. It counts special locks for our doors and the jails for the people who break them. It counts the destruction of the redwood and the loss of our natural wonder in chaotic sprawl. It counts na**lm and counts nuclear warheads and armored cars for the police to fight the riots in our cities. It counts Whitman's rifle and Speck's knife, and the television programs which glorify violence in order to sell toys to our children. Yet the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages, the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country, it measures everything in short, except that which makes life worthwhile. And it can tell us everything about America except why we are proud that we are Americans