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Convention, conflict and liberation

Convention, conflict and liberation FURTHER OBSERVATIONS ON ASIAN PSYCHOLOGY AND MODERN PSYCHIATRY ALAN W. WATTS HEN WE compare some of the trends is not to be confused with Western views W in modern psychotherapy with certain of subjective idealism. It is rather the more practical disciplines of Asian philosophy, easily verifiable notion that the world as we begin to discover a most instructive we conceive it (e.g., as a multiplicity of clarification of the whole function of ther- "things" in relative motion) is not to be apy, and especially of its relation to social identified with the world as it is, in the institutions. Among social institutions we same way that one does not identify the must understand conventions of every type; measure with what is measured. One does not only the family, marriage, legal codes, not confuse the cloth with the yard, since and systems of language, but also ideas of it would be impossible to make clothing motion, time, space and personality which from merely abstract yards. Thus a person are generally understood to be properties is said to be spellbound by mdyd when he of the physical world rather than conven- confuses the concrete with the abstract, tions of social http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The American Journal of Psychoanalysis Springer Journals

Convention, conflict and liberation

Watts, Alan W.
The American Journal of Psychoanalysis , Volume 16 (1): 5 – Mar 1, 1956
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Springer Journals
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1956 The Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis
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0002-9548
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1573-6741
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10.1007/BF01873713
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Abstract

FURTHER OBSERVATIONS ON ASIAN PSYCHOLOGY AND MODERN PSYCHIATRY ALAN W. WATTS HEN WE compare some of the trends is not to be confused with Western views W in modern psychotherapy with certain of subjective idealism. It is rather the more practical disciplines of Asian philosophy, easily verifiable notion that the world as we begin to discover a most instructive we conceive it (e.g., as a multiplicity of clarification of the whole function of ther- "things" in relative motion) is not to be apy, and especially of its relation to social identified with the world as it is, in the institutions. Among social institutions we same way that one does not identify the must understand conventions of every type; measure with what is measured. One does not only the family, marriage, legal codes, not confuse the cloth with the yard, since and systems of language, but also ideas of it would be impossible to make clothing motion, time, space and personality which from merely abstract yards. Thus a person are generally understood to be properties is said to be spellbound by mdyd when he of the physical world rather than conven- confuses the concrete with the abstract, tions of social

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The American Journal of Psychoanalysis – Springer Journals

Published: Mar 1, 1956

Keywords: Clinical Psychology; Psychotherapy; Psychoanalysis

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