Intimate Relationships

One psychiatrist noted the increasing social shift away from relating to others as people.  This is a networking, hook-up generation.  He bemoans the increasing ”psychiatric view of symptoms as reflections of neurons and chemicals suggests that we may be in a social withdrawal from being able to face and bear the pain of human experience… i.e., being in authentic relationships with other people.  Shifting away from the area that psychoanalysis has so carefully developed of listening to others with disciplined empathy runs the risk of losing the embedded set of values about the significance of the individual life.” ~Edward Shapiro, M. D.