Everybody's Horrorscope

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Everybody's Horrorscope for week of December 4, 2003

 

Psychotherapy obsesses on what's wrong with people and gives short

shrift to what's right. The manual of the profession is a 943-page text

called the DSM-IV that identifies scores of pathological states but no

healthy ones. I often complain about this tragic fact and ask my readers

to help me compile material for a proposed Anti-DSM-IV, a compendium of

all the positive, noble, feel-good categories. One reader, Alka

Bhargava, has suggested a condition that you will be able to achieve

regularly this week. He calls it "Joyful Poignance," and describes it

like this: "The ability to be buoyantly joyful while remaining aware of

the sadness, injustices, ancient wounds, and future fears that form the

challenges in an examined life."

 

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