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She's a psychoanalyst
"You could call me a
theistic existentialist, a
Thomist, a believer in
dialectical idealism or
Plato—Aristotle," said Dr.
Judith Brigham as she sat in
her cosy office next to
Flear's Bakery on Main
Street.
Actually in terms of
occupation she's a
psycho -analyst who has
been practising in Grand
Bend every summer since
1954.
Dr.
Brigham is not a
medical psychiatrist. She
has her Ph. D. in philosophq
of xeligions from Columbia
University in New York
where she studied under the
world renowed theologan,
Dr. Paul Tillich. She feels
she is uniquely qualified for
analysis because during her
under -graduate and post
graduate years at university
she took a wide variety of
subjects dealing with human
relations and her philosophy
degree gives her an over -ail
view to all the behavioral
sciences.
Since she is an American
citizen, Dr. Brigham charges
no fees for her counselling
but she will accept an
honorarium.
She is open evenings but
"will meet anyone
anywhere anytime. "When I
first came here I was first
open all day - and Ellen
mornings and evenings but
I've found evenings are the
best time for Grand Bend,"
During her first year at
Grand Bend she spent the
winter here living at the
Colonial Hotel. "You don't
really know Grand Bend
until you've spent a winter
here," she said. "It's not
really much different. Just
500 people behaving much
the same as 20,000 people
in the summer. Human
nature does not change with
the climate race or culture.
I've found it exactly the
same everywhere. "From
the beginning I covered the
water front. It was hard at
first. It seemed like I was
always getting a hand
shoved in my face."
"Nobody else is doing
exactly what I am doing,"
she said.
"I don't move strictly on
the emotional level like
most psychiatrists. I . take
into account the three
aspects of personality—
emotion, reason -.• and
will --with the emphasis on
reason."
"If people can . A
handle on an emotional
problem 1 have faith they
can solve
Dr. Brigtlam compared
her method to that of a
surgeon. "The surgeon must
go in with his scalpel and
take the diseased organ out.
He can't mess around. I'm
the same. -I use a verbal
knife to get at this thing
that's festering the person
I'm helping."
"I find my business as
mathematical as geometry.
If you apply the theorums,
you get the answers."
She claims she is actually
just a "plain ordinary
everyday university teacher
but a teacher with a
Christian point of view. la"
our universities there seems
to be eveiy type of outlook
except the Christian point
of view." .
Dr, Brigham has written
a book expounding her
views on dialectic idealism.
Dr Brigham sees life as a
balance betweeen freedom
-and tyranny. This balance
may be different for each
individual but every person
must find his proper balance
in order to achieve an
optimum life.
"Life is a teeter-totter
with one end up and one
down," she said. "One must
learn to move up and down.
Instead of giving the weak
person at the bottom a
boost up we tend to achieve
a balance by hitting the guy
on top down which is the
wrong way to go about it."
Her philosophy of
dialectics can apply to
almost everything.
On Politics: "The two
party system rests on
universal principles of a
balance between the order
point of view as embodied
in the conservative party
and the freedom point of
view as in the liberal party."
On Marriage: "These
days marriage is completely
different from what it used
to be. People from very
different backgrounds are
marrying. Nobody looks at
the mother and- father
behind them, They have
definite convictions and the
Rattle between ttig a 'encs
start. It's the respectable
.oedipus complex where
looking after becomes
control. In a materialistic
society the bride is used."
On The Church: "The
problem of the Church is
that it is Mother rather than
bride centred. A man
doesn't marry until he is
willing to sacrifice for a
woman. A woman doesn't
marry until she is ready to
sacrifice for a man's
children.
"Too often the church is
subjected to the tyranny of
bachelors and spinsters,
married and unmarried.
They look so pure that they
get" prestige.
On the Negro Black
Power Movement: "The aim
should be balance rather
than power. It should be a
black balance movement."
On hippies. " •" If those
kids knew about one 4'd give
them the weapons they
need to fight the wrongs of
society. They don't have the
right weapons."
In her non-professional
SKI Boat
Rentals
MANORE MARINE
ESSAY CONTEST
"PATTERN ANALYSIS
PRIZES
FIRST --- $15.00
SECOND -- $10.00
THIRD — $5.00
CONTEST CLOSES
AUGUST 31
- WHAT I5 IT ?"
ENTRIES SHOULD
BE LEFT AT
DR. JUDITH BRIGHAM'S
SUMMER OFFICE
49 MAIN ST.
GRAND BEND
FOR CLUES TO THE MEANING OF
THE 'ORDER -FREEDOM DIALECTIC'
SEE DISPLAY IN OFFICE WINDOW
1967 PRIZE - WINNING ESSAY
THE MEANING OF DIALECTICS OR ANTITHETICAL REASONING
by
Bruce A. Dallas, student, Wayne State Univeristy, Detroit, Michigan
Self-expression is a problem to the individual and a thorn in the side of
universal man. It is oftentimes a self-serving term, for one may express oneself very
clearly to one's own self — clearly, understandably and meaningfully. But this
understanding is one's 'own' thoughts, views and emotions being perfectly
acceptable to one's self — self-serving one's own psyche or ego if you will.
The problem which must be solved is not of self-expression but rather of
socially comprehensive interaction. One's views may, and most usually are,
determined by his cultural -sociological environment, which once accepted by an
individual is often accepted as a truism, without further empirical research or
exposure to reality.
How then is one to know another thought exists if one is not aware of, nor
capable of forming antithetical reasoning? Man should and must be aware of his
fellowman's reasoning? Albeit he may not agree, nevertheless he should accept
that it exists.
Once this insight is achieved man then has the ability to communicate to his
fellow beings, with -an understanding of the varied concepts which are felt and
believed by others. This revelation will deliver compassion, understanding, and
tolerance, a tolerance and understanding and compassion so desperately needed
and obviously lacking in this world of stoic, inconsistent complacency.
life Dr. Brigham is the wife
of Dr. N. Burnett Magruder,
executive director of the
Christian Heritage Center in
Louisville Kentucky.
Dr. Brigham has a weekly
radio program broadcast in
the United States from
Louisville, Los Angeles,
Dallas and Indiana. She is
the daughter of a United
Church minister who was
the first minister in Main
Street United Church in
Exeter after church union in
.1925.
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