{"id":699,"date":"2010-08-24T08:24:51","date_gmt":"2010-08-24T13:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poojanwagh.opalstacked.com\/poojanblog\/?p=699"},"modified":"2010-08-24T08:29:37","modified_gmt":"2010-08-24T13:29:37","slug":"catharsis-%c2%ab-you-are-not-so-smart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/catharsis-%c2%ab-you-are-not-so-smart\/","title":{"rendered":"Catharsis \u00ab You Are Not So Smart"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Thanks to Freud, catharsis theory and psychotherapy became part of  psychology. Mental wellness, he reasoned, could be achieved by filtering  away impurities in your mind through the siphon of a therapist.<\/p>\n<p>He believed your psyche was poisoned by repressed fears and desires,  unresolved arguments and unhealed wounds. The mind formed phobias and  obsessions around these bits of mental detritus. You needed to rummage  around in there, open up some windows and let some fresh air and  sunlight in.<\/p>\n<p>The hydraulic model of anger is just what it sounds like \u2013 anger  builds up inside the mind until you let off some steam. If you don\u2019t let  off this steam, the boiler will burst. If you don\u2019t vent the pressure,  someone is going to get a beating.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He was wrong. Read more here: <a href=\"http:\/\/youarenotsosmart.com\/2010\/08\/11\/catharsis\/#more-833\">Catharsis \u00ab You Are Not So Smart<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Or buy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0743222989?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=obsecompthind-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=0743222989\" title=\"Amazon Associates Referral\">this book<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=obsecompthind-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0743222989\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Freud, catharsis theory and psychotherapy became part of psychology. Mental wellness, he reasoned, could be achieved by filtering away impurities in your mind through the siphon of a therapist. He believed your psyche was poisoned by repressed fears and desires, unresolved arguments and unhealed wounds. The mind formed phobias and obsessions around these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[196,107],"class_list":["post-699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-behavior","tag-psychodynamic","tag-psychology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":705,"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions\/705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}