It's interesting, I just finished listening to C.S. Lewis's "The Four Loves" and he brilliantly explains how each form of love can develop into a negative or a positive. There are "two sides to the coin" of almost everything in life, I think.
Ok, that’s fascinating. I think I see it exactly in this way.
In my research, I just read a story about a neurologist who was studying the brains of people with autism. His control group was his own family. But one of the scans showed telltale signs of someone genetically predisposed to sociopathy, particularly in the way it develops in people who often become con artists. He thought there’d been a mixup, so he broke protocol to figure out which scan it was, so he could remove it from the study.
It turned out to be his scan.
He was predisposed to sociopathy, but because of the influences in his early childhood he became a renowned neuroscientist instead of become a con artist.
...and psychotherapists lay a con on the unwilling/resistant client.
As a successful psychotherapist for 45 years, working the sceptical/hostile crowd, I've enjoyed snaring these folks with their stories, talking the language of the other side of the desk, leading them to a behaviour-changing paradigm shift outside of their habitual world. Thebizzarely naive meme that "they have to want to change" doesn't fit the world of court orders, aggrieved spouses, or psychiatric units. Instead, these clients are in desperate trouble forced on them by outside forces. The common feature that they don't know they are in trouble, is akin to the con's mark being persuaded into a 'need' formerly unimagined.
It's interesting, I just finished listening to C.S. Lewis's "The Four Loves" and he brilliantly explains how each form of love can develop into a negative or a positive. There are "two sides to the coin" of almost everything in life, I think.
Ok, that’s fascinating. I think I see it exactly in this way.
In my research, I just read a story about a neurologist who was studying the brains of people with autism. His control group was his own family. But one of the scans showed telltale signs of someone genetically predisposed to sociopathy, particularly in the way it develops in people who often become con artists. He thought there’d been a mixup, so he broke protocol to figure out which scan it was, so he could remove it from the study.
It turned out to be his scan.
He was predisposed to sociopathy, but because of the influences in his early childhood he became a renowned neuroscientist instead of become a con artist.
Light, instead of dark.
Correct Kevin,
...and psychotherapists lay a con on the unwilling/resistant client.
As a successful psychotherapist for 45 years, working the sceptical/hostile crowd, I've enjoyed snaring these folks with their stories, talking the language of the other side of the desk, leading them to a behaviour-changing paradigm shift outside of their habitual world. Thebizzarely naive meme that "they have to want to change" doesn't fit the world of court orders, aggrieved spouses, or psychiatric units. Instead, these clients are in desperate trouble forced on them by outside forces. The common feature that they don't know they are in trouble, is akin to the con's mark being persuaded into a 'need' formerly unimagined.
Good job! Paul
Was it John Gardner in “Art of Fiction” that the author attempts to suspend belief, keep a dream going, etc? That does sound like a benevolent con.
It's not ringing a bell, but it's been a long minute since I've read it. But I think you're on to something!
I like your “cons,” Kevin. Go ahead; fool me again!
Notice at no time do my hands leave my arms! ;)