It Sounds Like A Joke But —

The depth of psychiatry deals with the entrails — the innards.

The world of psychiatry of the deepest personal thoughts is a world of fantasies of murder and fantasies or death and they are deep, so very deep, that sometimes people don’t even know that they think about them.

This is a Freudian idea, but all kinds of observations have, to my satisfaction, proven this idea to be truth.

If this is true, then the only thing that keeps us from acting out these deep ideas is that thing we call “society.” The laws and the beliefs, the notion that humans should in some measure think we should be good and honest and clean …

Most of us don’t spend a lot of time thinking about the fate of the partially digested food that must, at some point, leave our bodies.

Encopresis is “leakage” of such materials in a child, after age four, when he/she has learned to use the toilet. Sometimes emotional issues are blamed, like birth of a sibling.

I would have to think a lot harder to figure out what might cause an adult to voluntarily deposit that which is politely named “poop” in the way it is described in this study…well, it is necessary to speak to the perpetrator. It is a bit of an amazement that this person feels so aggressive that some of our most basic social norms and customs are ignored in favor of self-expression.

Sometimes people who have outstandingly severe personal problems can make it to some pretty high social authority.