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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (64465)	10/28/2002 4:12:00 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I have never experienced cognitive therapy, only read about it. When I first heard of it, I was struck with how much it sounded like the approach I used on myself many years ago to "correct" non-constructive reactions, with some success here and there. We have discussed anger and retribution before. I see them serving a useful purpose only on rare occasions in a society as cushy as ours. Jealousy is another useless one. They do more harm than good and I think it's wrongheaded to savor them. There are plenty of other reactions, like joy and devotion, which you mention, that we can savor. I see value in outrage, as well--there's no need to throw out the baby with the bath water. It is, indeed, possible to change significantly how we react to stimuli by changing how we think about them. And healthy, IMO. That is not the same thing as controlling our response. Nor is it the same thing as as controlling what actions we take in response. It's simply reinterpreting common stimuli more constructively.