Are the Irish truly impervious to psychoanalysis, as quoted by Matt Damon in the movie, "The Departed"?
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psych31mwo says call me Mark
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Sigmund Freud said it first. All I can say is that I am Irish and nobody has been able to cure my particular brand of insanity...
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Ah, that's just being Irish. If we weren't a little crazy in the head we wouldn't be true to our roots. Nor would we be as fun to hang out with.
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No shrink should really make such statements... it rings home to anyone irish because everyone wants to be special and if it's backed up by someone with a degree we have more of a tendancy to agree... we want to believe... but really... of course not. we all realize that, and that's why you asked... that little part of you that doesn't believe the statement that wanted it to be true asked for support in your hopeful belief eh? The real question I want answered is... why was that statement made? What charecteristics of the irish at the time made that viable.
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Synopsis: From the 'Character' section of the eagerly awaited Xenophobe's Guide to the Irish: 'The Irish,' claimed Sigmund Freud 'are the only race who cannot be helped by psychoanalysis'. The general implication is that Irish people are a mass of contradictions, and impervious to the rational thought processes that might resolve them.
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I don't know if we are truly "impervious" to psychoanalysis but I do know that coming from a large, typical (drunken father, long-suffering mother, abject poverty, razor-sharp wit, etc) shanty-Irish family we, as a people, know how to put the FUN in DYSFUNCTIONAL!
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