The case of "Dominatrix" (Incurable alcoholic neurasthenia)
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case of (Incurable alcoholic neurasthenia) |
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The case of "Dominatrix" |
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Biopsychiatric labels DSM-5 |
Incurable alcoholic neurasthenia, Alcoholism, Substance Abuse |
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Checklist Behaviours DSM-7 |
Drunkenness, deception, "Not being a man" |
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Insights MMPI-7 |
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Quick Pick EDS-7.1 |
Abused: Bullied by mother, Emotional abuse Complaints: I feel Unhappy, I feel Unrespected, I feel Unappreciated, I feel Unsuccessful |
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Self-disablement EDS-7.2 |
Unemployable: Avoided work through drunkenness |
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Chemical imbalance EDS-7.3 |
Yes. Alcohol |
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Benefits EDS-7.4 |
Escape duty or life situation: EDS-7.4.4 Sympathy: EDS-7.4.5 Control over others: EDS-7.4.6 Alibi for impending failure as an adult or failure at school, work or home: EDS-7.4.7 |
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Monetary EDS-7.5 |
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Annoyance Scale EDS-7.6 |
High |
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Diagnostic Laws EDS-7.7 |
Law of Narcissistic Behaviour Choice (NBC) EDS-7.7.1.NBC Law of Derivative Personal Benefit (DPB) EDS-7.7.2.DPB Law of Diagnostic Anosognosia Relativism (DAR) EDS-7.7.7.DAR Law of Manipulative Rhetorical Malingering (MRM) EDS-7.7.9.MRM Law of Habitual Smokescreen Decoy (HSD) EDS-7.7.10.HSD Law of Locus Pentaphasic Transmutation (LPT) EDS-7.7.11.LPT |
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Determine the Problem |
Was unable to make a break from under his mother's control and authority. |
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Ask a Child |
He is sad about something. EDS-7.7.12.PMO |
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5 years later EDS-7.7.LPT |
He was out from under his mother's domination, independent and self-employed. |
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The case of "Dominatrix"
(Carl Jung, psychiatrist and founder of analytical psychology, A man caught in an unhappy life situation, displays psychotic behaviours rather than "grow up and leave home" to escape his controlling mother and be self-sufficient.)
"An American colleague sent me a patient. The accompanying diagnosis read "alcoholic neurasthenia [weakness, fatigue, anxiety, headache, depressed caused by damaged nerves from alcoholism]" The prognosis called him "incurable." My colleague had therefore taken the precaution of advising the patient to see also a certain neurological authority in Berlin, for he expected that my attempt at therapy would lead to nothing. The patient came for consultation, and after I had talked a little with him I saw that the man had an ordinary neurosis, of whose psychic origins he had no inkling. I made an association test and discovered that he was suffering from the effects of a formidable mother complex. He came from a rich and respected family, had a likeable wife and no cares externally speaking. Only he drank too much. The drinking was a desperate attempt to narcotize himself, to forget his oppressive situation. Naturally, it did not help. His mother was the owner of a large company, and the un-usually talented son occupied a leading post in the firm. He really should long since have escaped from his oppressive sub-ordination to his mother, but he could not summon up the resolution to throw up his excellent position. Thus he remained chained to his mother, who had installed him in the business. Whenever he was with her, or had to submit to her interference with his work, he would start drinking in order to stupefy or discharge his emotions. A part of him did not really want to leave the comfortably warm nest, and against his own instincts he was allowing himself to be seduced by wealth and comfort. After brief treatment he stopped drinking, and considered himself cured. But I told him, "I do not guarantee that you will not relapse into the same state if you return to your former situation." He did not believe me, and returned home to America in fine fettle. As soon as he was back under his mother's influence, the drinking began again. Thereupon I was called by her to a consultation during her stay in Switzerland. She was an intelligent woman, but was a real "power devil." I saw what the son had to contend with, and realized that he did not have the strength to resist. Physically, too, he was rather delicate and no match for his mother. I therefore decided upon an act of force mateure. Behind his back I gave his mother a medical certificate to the effect that her son's alcoholism rendered him incapable of fulfilling the requirements of his job. I recommended his discharge. This advice was followed and the son, of course, was furious with me. Here I had done something which normally would be considered unethical for a medical man. But I knew that for the patient's sake I had had to take this step. His further development? Separated from his mother, his own personality was able to unfold. He made a brilliant career in spite of, or rather just because of the strong horse pill I had given him. His wife was grateful to me, for her husband had not only overcome his alcoholism, but had also struck out on his own individual path with the greatest success. Nevertheless, for years I had a guilty conscience about this patient because I had made out that certificate behind his back, though I was certain that only such an act could free him. And indeed, once his liberation was accomplished, the neurosis disappeared." (Memories Dreams Reflections, Carl Gastav Jung, 1961 AD, p 120)
Discussion:
The psychiatrists had labeled him as an incurable alcoholic suffering from neurasthenia (weakness, fatigue, anxiety, headache, depressed caused by damaged nerves from alcoholism). A rather simple etiology became a complex medical issue.
Here we have a man who is caught in an unhappy life situation under the control of his executive mother. Rather than grow up and be a man and just quit, he fabricates a collection of psychotic behaviours as an escape. This is because he did not want to leave the comfort and luxury of living under the control of his mother. The key is that he had been labeled incurable… and indeed he was. Only he could cure himself.
Many young men manufacture schizophrenia at the threshold of adult independence (age 18) because they are unwilling to make the leap into full manhood. This man's story differs only in minor details.
Alcoholics always know what problem they are trying to solve through drunkenness but lie that they do not know because the truth would be too embarrassing to admit.
Biopsychiatry has deceived the general public by transforming drunkenness from a sin into a disease. God will hold all drunks accountable in judgement, but atheistic Darwinian chemical psychiatrists remove all personal accountability which makes the Devil happy. Alcoholism is a moral choice not a genetic predisposition. The reason alcoholics "can't stay stopped" is because they have been lied to, that it is a genetic defect over which they have no personal responsibly or control in the same way as if they contracted pneumonia or gall stones. If they had any fear they might be cast into hell for drunkenness, they would likely find a reason to "stay stopped".
Picking up a glass of alcohol is no more an "involuntary physical compulsion" than is rape, gluttony, smoking or ingesting drugs. The body may crave because of a historical pattern of bad choices, but the spirit is always in control.
Biopsychiatry have bizarrely diagnosed alcoholics with an allergy of all things, in an effort to explain why some people consume alcohol and do not become addicted and others become alcoholics when they consume the first drink. A bee sting causes a physical reaction in some people because they have an allergy. Their body chemistry is different from the majority of the population who have no such reaction. The alcoholic/allergy etiological theory, however is nothing like a true allergy, or anything else in medicine we know of. The allergy to alcohol, so the myth goes, induces a chemical compound in the body, only after you take that "first drink". Before you had your first drink, you didn’t crave alcohol. But that first drink changes your body chemistry so that you are forced, uncontrollably and against your freewill, to take the second and third drink and so on. While allergies may create pain and alter the appearance of the body, no allergy affects mood or choice. It is a completely false analogy constructed not by scientific observation, but to strategically remove responsibility from the individual. God never condemns behaviours caused by disease.
The Twelve step program Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is church for atheists. AA is a cheap counterfeit of Christianity. However it was designed by Christians to help atheists with their problems. 97% of people who join AA fail to get clean of alcohol for life. 3% of those who convert to Christianity in genuine faith and obedience to God return to their former sinful addition because they fall away and lose faith.
The cute charade of Jung supplying his mother with a medical certification he was unemployable was a solution, but not an honest solution that a Christian would condone. Having said this, there is some truth to the fact that he was essentially unemployable, UNDER HER EMPLOY. A Christian would just say to the man, "either put up or shut up". The man should either just have the guts to tell his mother that he is quitting because of her or just accept his equivalence as her lifetime male-slave and stop sinning by getting drunk. While a Christian might directly confront her sinful manner in which she was treating her son, it really would not be a solution. The man had to stand up and be a man and quit.
Jung treated Rowland Hazard in 1931 AD for alcoholism in Switzerland but upon return to the USA he reverted to his drunken binges. Jung told Hazard that without conversion to genuine Christianity most alcoholics were beyond help. This event happened at the time that the Lutheran religious "Oxford Group" was operating to get alcoholics to repent of their sin of drunkenness. The Oxford Group is where one of the founders of AA learned the basic concepts of AA today. Whether Rowland Hazard is the actual man in the story above, is uncertain.
Benefits from behaviour: This illustrates the Law of Narcissistic Behaviour Choice (NBC) EDS-7.7.1.NBC
- Escape duty or life situation: EDS-7.4.4. He was very unhappy with his life under the control of his mother.
- Sympathy: EDS-7.4.5. By disabling himself as an alcoholic, he would gain sympathy for his unhappiness.
- Control over others: EDS-7.4.6. His disablement meant that now he was in control of his life, not his mother. He set his hours of work and could just get drunk as an escape from her commands.
- Alibi for impending failure as an adult or failure at school, work or home: EDS-7.4.7. In his heart, he felt like he was a failure as a man.
Diagnostic laws that are seen illustrated in the case of "Dominatrix":
- He calculated that the cost of being labeled an incurable alcoholic was worth the benefit of escaping his mother's control. This illustrates the Law of Derivative Personal Benefit (DPB) EDS-7.7.2.DPB
- All the fancy theories that the doctors came up with were discarded by the man because he knew exactly why he chose to be an alcoholic. It was not until he came to Jung as an incurable, that the real problem of his mother's domination was discovered. This illustrates the Law of Diagnostic Anosognosia Relativism (DAR) EDS-7.7.7.DAR
- Imagine if he had just walked into his mother's office one day and said, "Mom, I don't want to work here anymore." Instead, he let his alcoholic "disability" do the asking for him. Law of Manipulative Rhetorical Malingering (MRM) EDS-7.7.9.MRM
- His alcoholism was a decoy for the real problem he did not want revealed. In fact, he made many efforts to conceal his problem with his mother. Imagine if he had just walked into his mother's office one day and said, "Mom, you are the one who is driving me to drunkenness." So he lied and deceived his way hiding this fact all the way to Jung's office. This illustrates the Law of Habitual Smokescreen Decoy (HSD) EDS-7.7.10.HSD
- At the beginning of the five year, he was unhappy under his mother's control. At the end of 5 years, he was free from his mother, fully independent and self-sufficient. This illustrates the Law of Locus Pentaphasic Transmutation (LPT) EDS-7.7.11.LPT
Note: Although these are based upon real case stories, the names and details have been changed to hide the identities of the people.
By Steve Rudd: Contact the author for comments, input or corrections.
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