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I Don't Want To Be Dolores

Here I am, after a three year hiatus. For some weeks I have been occupied with the sensation that I am understanding things that I could not comprehend before. I have been avidly watching Westworld in my third attempt to grasp the deeper meaning, and here are a few observations and thoughts that it triggered: When I was seven years old, which is my favourite age to remember, everything just was the way it was to the naked eye.

Why ‘Unedited only’?

More and more, in our professional and personal lives, we are being told there are words, concepts, emotions and topics that must be edited or removed altogether from our lexicon. There are things we must now say in order to appear “normal” and placate the masses; and others that must be edited or massaged through a labyrinth of political correctness to avoid public ridicule, ostracization or even punitive action. After witnessing the ideological shifts slowly infiltrating the realm of the mental health profession, practising psychotherapy began to resemble more a walk in a minefield of risks than a healthy and authentic relationship guided by a caring and rational human being.