Medication is often promoted as a silver bullet to overcome psychological problems. There can be no doubt that medication is of significant benefit for many people with chronic depression, trauma conditions, bipolar disorders, and severe anxiety to name a few. Research and clinical work have revealed that after psychological symptoms have diminished or stabilized with medication patients continue to suffer from a range of issues. Neurons and chemistry cannot account for the complex range of impressions that influence a person over the course of their life.
Diminishing symptoms does not help a person choose a life of value and purpose. In fact, the psychologist Abraham Maslow asserted that psychological problems are often caused by a failure to live a creative meaningful life. In order to create a life of meaning it is necessary to embark on an inward journey of spiritual and psychological renewal. A journey that seems embedded into human nature and that has appeared in many forms throughout human history.
Medication can and does provide relief; however, if the real cause of psychological symptoms is a struggle for value, meaning, and purpose, no medication will prove useful in the long term. Medication, without psychotherapeutic guidance, could blunt a natural striving to overcome problems by living a value filled life.
Comprehensive psychotherapy over the short or long haul can diminish symptoms, build resilience, and promote meaningful living. Medication can best seen as providing the necessary relief to resume this journey toward a well lived life.

Psychologists and psychiatrist have asserted for many years that anger and aggression are part of our biological heritage. As such, the expression of anger and aggression is accepted as part of human behavior. Some writers conclude that anger and aggression are simply evolutionary adaptions for self-preservation.

On the face of it such assertions seem true. However, there have been psychologists and psychiatrists who have questioned the exclusive focus on anger and aggression as adaptive.

It is also possible to view nurturing and cooperation as just important, if not, more important to species preservation. Early humans had to cooperate to pull off a successful hunt against larger animals such as mastadons. To cooridante such hunting early humans had to communicate with each other effectively, they had to figure out how to prepare and distruibut the fruit of a hunt to the tribe, they had to cooperate in caring for wonded comrades, collaborate in making the tools needed for the next hunt. In short, humanity survived and flourished because of our ability to cooperate and contribute to each other's benefit.
What if psycholoigsts and psychiatrists sought not to treat anger and aggression but facilitate cooperation and contribution?

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