Babies on the couch

[Voegelin]

London Telegraph
By Olga Craig and Philip Sherwell in New York
28/10/2006

Tots as young as a few months old are being taken for psychotherapy… and not just in America, it's happening here, too.

. . . Both here and in the United States, regular visits to psychiatrists and psychologists has become commonplace: but, increasingly, a new generation of patients has barely crawled out of the cradle before they hoist themselves onto the therapist's couch. "Dr Acquarone's sessions utterly changed my relationship with my son," says Miss Mientakeivitch, a lawyer. "We have the loving bond I had hoped for and he is a happy, healthy baby. Her work is tremendous: she taught me so much about what Toby was feeling and how to interpret the messages he was sending me. Her observations of Toby taught me such a lot about him."

Dr Acquarone's clinic, which she set up in the early 1990s, is geared towards "early intervention" . . .

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/mai...WAVCBQUIV0?xml=/news/2006/10/29/nbabies29.xml

 

[marshgreencohen]

they bring a baby to a psychiatrist at its young age...what problem could it probably have?psychologial sort?

 

[Maccie]

Her work is tremendous: she taught me so much about what Toby was feeling and how to interpret the messages he was sending me. Her observations of Toby taught me such a lot about him."

And I suppose the mother was too busy, too stupid or too idle to do that for herself??

What did she think being a parent involved??

 

[carrymeaway06]

I presume the mothers are the types who are gonna send their kids to every after-school activity, send them to every summer camp there is and never even think of spending time with them.

 

[cavymom]

Not all child experts are impressed, however. Prof Frank Furedi, a sociologist from the University of Kent, and the author of Paranoid Parenting, is scathing. He believes that such therapy preys upon parents' natural anxieties. "At the moment there is an obsession with setting children on the right emotional path from the beginning, from birth," he says. "Even in day-care centres, the emotional intelligence of children is seen as paramount. Increasingly, adults are socialising their children less and less: they are scared to let them play with toys that are not seen as having a developmental outcome. We are even doing this when a child is in the womb, playing them classical music and the like.
"This sort of thing is parasitical. By preying on anxious mothers and re-enforcing those fears, we have created an obsession that if one doesn't do these things, one is a bad parent.

I agree with this part of the article, and highlighted the statements I agree with most.

There are too many people believing that the 'experts' know more about babies than the actual parents. This only leads to allowing the government education system to rule over our children. Beleiving that we cant know our children or know whats best for our children is going to disentigrate the family unit.

 

[carrymeaway06]

I agree with this part of the article, and highlighted the statements I agree with most.

There are too many people believing that the 'experts' know more about babies than the actual parents. This only leads to allowing the government education system to rule over our children. Beleiving that we cant know our children or know whats best for our children is going to disentigrate the family unit.

I ain't playing classical music whilst pregnant. Uh uh. No.

These people have no business being parents if they can't figure it out. Back in the day Sigmond Freud was unheard of. We only know of him now because he sparked a great movement in the mind of the crazy folks. (I don't believe in "the couch")

 

[soblessed53]

"There's a sucker born every minute"! It doesn't surprise me when some people even take their pets for therapy,LOL! Also "A fool and his money are soon parted"!

 

[Voegelin]

The underlying theme of much psychology is that creation is not a gift to us but a burden. Creation is, at best, neutral and probably hostile. That the industry would extend its reach, its desire to help people "cope", to infants is a natural extension of what most psychology is.

Christian psychology does exist and is growing. But for many years it was scoffed at. Don't think we'll see its practioneers pitching to new moms.

A Christian who was a disciple of Freud before breaking with him:

http://www.rudolfallers.info/