Mind For Therapy

My thoughts regarding this website are developing slowly. I think to give more life to the site I am going to have to let it go. As Bateson said, "iin order to save the world you have to be willing to let it go to hell." My thinking now  is to let "mind" become more of an interactive place. I have added a discussion forum and am working out details for an eJournal. I am going to bring 8 or 9 people into its development and managment. Some of those bright minds can do things I only dream about. I want each person to have control over the site. To be able to add and build in their own individual personality. I think it will be fun. I want to get everyone started with an absurd e-book. I am thinking of titles like "How to lose a therapist in ten sessions", "Dirty Secrets: A Scandalous Brief History of Family Therapy", "Top Ten All Time Worst Interventions"... Who knows, but I think it would be fun to let folks loose with a creative assignment to start with.

I am pleased with where my "mind" is headed. I don't want it to stop with my own skin. I think a major issue with making real advancments in our field has to do with how territorial everyone is with their "intellectual property". I am frustrated with a lot of what I see in the field, nothing more so than the idea of trademarking the names of schools of therapy and marketing them as "canned" approaches to effective treatment. Most of the research is halfcocked clinical trails that pit one program against basically no treatment, and the studies that do compare treatment usually ened up with no difference. If you want to find out more about this "baloney" check out the website www.talkingcure.com. It is a great site with strait talk about what research is really showing... that is without all the propaganda.

So I quess... that is the pitfall I want to avoid. Give up control... let the site take a life of its own...Let "mind" be as Bateson might define it... including all the pathways along which transforms of difference can be transmitted.

Well... lets be realistic. I know the people that I am bringing in to the work on this website and I know their theoretical orientations... so its not all up in the air.