[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: JK Rowling on CBC Newsworld tonight

[Janette]

>
> Tonks:
> As to Rowling and her current husband, I would expect with all of
> the money that she made, she probably had some therapy, or maybe
> somehow just learned from the past. I don't know. And they haven't
> been married that long yet, so we really don't know do we? Or care,
> for that matter. ;-)


montims:

well, I have stayed out of this thread up to now, because I didn't know
where to begin to respond to most of the points that Tonks has made.  I am
astounded by the assertion "I am a Psychotherapist.  I am not making this up
and it is universal for a woman who is not a lesbian."  I hope Tonks does
not have too many clients - I feel for any vulnerable, damaged
person exposed to this kind of bigotry and half-baked ("I don't know how it
goes for bisexual women, we never studied that, or gays either for that
matter." Really?) theories.  Do you confirm their sexual orientation before
you decide to treat them?  Does your business card state that you have
studied only heterosexual psychology???  Do you really believe gays and
heterosexual people are different?

Anyway - I jumped in because of the above assertion, just to say that JKR is
British - I very very much doubt that she would have had therapy of any
kind.  I think realising she had money in the bank would have led her to buy
shoes if anything, not therapy...

And also - a question.  The OP mentioned and interview which I have not
seen, but evidently talks about "her mother's losing battle with multiple
sclerosis to Rowling's eventual estrangement from her father".  Now, I may
be wrong, without knowing what was actually said, but "eventual
estrangement" to me reads like something that happened after her mother's
death, in JKR's adult years.  If that is indeed the case, then all Tonks'
postulating about young girls' love affairs with their fathers, and making
God gay, and whatever else, is moot, as we are not speaking of a young
girl's feelings, but the rational, or otherwise, choice of an adult woman.

Oh yes, and one final thing -  "Since in Christianity God is depicted as
male, many women who have had a bad relationship with their fathers find it
difficult to have a positive relationship with God because of the whole
God/male thing."  That does not bear out with historical and biographical
testimony of Catholic women in Ireland, Italy, etc, or with the number of
women who have historically escaped bad families to become nuns, saints, and
other holy women, and embraced the love of God and/or Jesus with their
hearts and souls.

Freud was great because he demolished a few taboos of the time, and opened
the door for others to pass through, but he was hugely flawed, as were many
of his theories...  It is worth reading him in context, and understanding
why he believed as he did, but his ideas, while they strike lots of mental
bells and give rise to many aha moments for those who have previously led
sheltered or insular lives, do not actually stand up when applied in real
life situations...


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