Tuesday, August 08, 2017
Hypothesizing on a new psychology, a new "evolutionary therapy"
The call would be for a new psychology,
or a reinvigorated and deepened evolutionary psychology---I once
suggested the term "evolutionary therapy." This time it
would be a psychology in accord with the knowledge that virtually all
behavioral traits are heritable. This suggests that such fields as
psychoanalysis and much of psychological therapy were a dead end, or
worse. And pills that relieve symptoms alone are not really enough, although they do make some corporations very rich.
Since behavior is derived mainly from
the biological origin of social behavior, this suggests that
behavioral changes in genetics will be needed in relieving neurosis. As the writer Jayman recently pointed out, such supposedly
culturally-defined healthy activities as exercising more are also
the result of genetic traits.
So now the decades old definition of
human nature defined by the science of sociobiology as being
basically kin-centered, gender defined, age-graded, heterosexual
marriage-making, hierarchical, ethnocentric, even xenophobic, and
religious-making, among other things, with group-selection as the
primary unit of successful
selection, followed by individual selection, can enter into
the field of evolutionary therapy.
Denial of real human nature would be
considered psychologically and genetically unhealthy and neurotic.
For example, cultural Marxism, which now rules our academic
institutions, would be seen as philosophically, psychologically, and
genetically damaging to individuals and nations.
Even the bonding effect of religion can
be included in the psychology of evolutionary therapy, as the
activation toward evolving to real Godhood in the material and
supermaterial world becomes our most sacred philosophical,
psychological, and genetic goal, making a truly holistic definition
of good health.
And of course evolutionary therapy
would remain entirely voluntary. I'm not suggesting here Orwell's
dystopia.
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