The Therapy of ‘Parenting’

The following extract from a recent video presentation by Jeremy conveys how his explanation is able to immediately bring reconciling and rehabilitating healing to each and every human’s psychological situation:

“With our species’ upset corrupted state explained and defended (see Video/Freedom Essay 3) the whole human situation changes. Once we can admit how upset and mad we are, real therapy at last becomes possible. All the lies and silence, all the denial and delusion ends, and relieving truth and understanding can flood through every situation, most especially through our ability to understand our own lives and all the upset that happened to us. Innocence can be reconciled with upset, the child within us can be talked to and embraced by the upset adult instead of being repressed and pushed under because we couldn’t confront, be honest about and deal with its pain. We coped by blocking our inner child out, making it even more repressed, which just accentuated the problem. We can, as it were, and this is very important, talk to the upset, excruciatingly hurt child within us, tell it all about our mad world, and we will be astonished how it can hear us and will come back to life, and cry with the relief that we, our conscious self, has at last come down to talk to it. We can bring peace and calm to the panicking and terrified-that-it’s-evil child, and the relief that comes to that child is truly incredible. We are able to be honest and explain everything now, making real therapy finally possible; ‘parenting’ is what I call it…So ‘parenting’ is the ultimate form of therapy but we’ve never been able to truly ‘parent’ because we’ve never been able to defend our upset and explain it. But now we can!” Jeremy Griffith, speaking in the video presentation of Freedom Essay 62: Jeremy’s Masterpiece Presentation.

The honesty and compassion of Jeremy’s work and the ability it gives us to now properly and fully ‘parent’ ourselves has had a profound impact on how Julie views her profession. Her reaction that "Jeremy Griffith’s work transforms how psychology and psychotherapy should be taught and used" brings to mind the words of Professor Harry Prosen, who wrote in his Introduction to Jeremy’s definitive 2016 book FREEDOM:

“Since coming across Jeremy’s work 10 years ago and realizing its enormous world-saving significance, I have kept one of his pieces of writing with me at all times. Having these insights into what it means to be human brings such clarity and change to everything, that staying in close contact with them in a world that is so distressed and psychologically crippled brings me relief, security and optimism for the future like nothing else I have ever encountered. Jeremy is the ultimate psychotherapist, the psychotherapist for psychotherapists—in fact, all the great theories I have encountered in my lifetime of studies of psychiatry can be accounted for under his explanation of human origins and behavior. I want to emphasize that Jeremy does describe the world exactly as it is with all its imperfections, but just as he describes all the horror of the world he also provides the insight into our condition that makes possible the only real hope, optimism and downright, out-of-your-skin excitement for the future of the human race and our planet—a transformational experience Jeremy introduces us to in chapter 9. Indeed, while the overall significance of this book is its ability to transform the reader—and thus the human race—by presenting the most relieving, uplifting and positive story ever told about humans, the explanation of the human condition in chapter 3 (which is summarized in chapter 1) is so amazingly accountable, insightful and relieving that it alone will transform you.”