Jordan Peterson appears to me to be an expert an depth psychology, and he uses dream interpretation with his clients in therapy, but his actual therapy appears roughly existentialist to me.
He argues that there are core psychoses, neuroses, and other psychological disorders that people suffer from, but I believe that he is offering that wallowing for years in self-pity and obsessing about such personal disabilities and limitations does lead to nowhere.
An important first step is to discover who and what you are, and the range, number, and scope of your disabilities (all of us are naturally or environmentally conditioned with varying severity of disability and ability). Then your next step is to accept the truth about you and everything, and then resolve to make the best of it and do something about improving things significantly.
Recovery or mental health is accepting radical metaphysical truth about the world and your place in it. You have free will and personal power to take responsibility and to overcome the suffering and malevolence (generated by you, by nature and by others in the human community) that permeate life.
The more responsibility that you take on, the more meaning you will realize and enjoy, and enhanced person ethical character, feeling happier and at ease in your conscience, will be some of the benefits of your taking responsibility. You might even invite God into your life.
I would add that my program of personal maverization dovetails rather nicely with Peterson's therapeutic approach.
I believe that we are called by God and the Good Spirits to maverize radically and yet within the dispassionate purview of applied practical wisdom. Only in near pure state of honesty, liberty, and love, can we self-realize effectively.
This state of liberty requires a social/institutional/political/societal regime through which individual is not controlled and tyrannized by the clique, the hierarchies in his life, nor the presence of soft or hard authoritarian government agencies.
Only reasonable and just laws should curb his behavior and decisions. Politically correct or woke brackets around private and public expression of thought, word or deed must be denounced, dethroned, legally emasculated, and cast aside.
The natural right to offend others (This is a strange way of stating that we have a natural right to express freely, or with near absolute freedom, our thoughts in whatever words chosen.) transcends and trumps the feelings and protected class status of sundry socially constructed victim groups that have legitimately or frivolously taken offense.
They should be not discriminated in any way, but individual compliance must be strictly voluntary. Social, institutional, and legal constraints against alleged or actual offensive agents is to be banned.
None should victimize others, nor be victimized or accept being victimized nor enslaved by anyone. Also, each of us is bound by a natural obligation to try not offending others--at least in a non-trivial sense.
The primary emphasis on individuals and their rights and liberty must be championed, our first priority.
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