I was surprised that this many New York Times op-ed commenters, so genteel and worldly astute, could appreciate this psych-drenched statement. My primary purpose was my appreciating the fact that a Trump adherent may not be only the rabid rally-marching stereotype, but could be just a depressed person with a sad sense of life. One looks upon her with sympathy, and assumes she may be receptive to contemplation, feeling deeply and finally crying for her childhood. That would be the doorway to therapy. But as said, she has escaped into projected pain and probably contempt, leaped into the steep-walled pool of attitudinal convictions, never to climb out and back to her real life.
One of the
great delusions in human psychology is that our thinking is primary reality. It
is usually an escape from reality, from our true, deeper feeling self.
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Comments are welcome, but I'd suggest you first read "Feeling-centered therapy" and "Ocean and boat" for a basic introduction to my kind of theory and therapy.