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Notes on counselling

Perfection — shifting nuances

Dr. Soumitra Basu

Abstract
Perfection can shift its stance from blind automatism that facilitates OCD (Obsessive
compulsive disorder) to the spontaneous remoulding of the physical substrate at higher
echelons of consciousness thus newer counselling techniques are needed to follow this
trajectory.

to be a therapist’s ordeal for the subject
may not fully respond to drugs and poorly
respond to ordinary counselling techniques
unless special behavioural therapies are
tried, but even then there is every chance of
relapse. In frustration, therapists sometimes
recommend psychosurgery though such
therapy still remains underused.

A few hours later I was deliberating a session
on personal growth from a psycho-spiritual
perspective. I was explaining how Mahasarasvati
could be invoked through perfection and
Perfection seems to be an enigma to counsellors Mahalakshmi through harmony as explained
— I learnt it the hard way. I was dealing by Sri Aurobindo. I was quoting profusely
with perfectionist traits of subjects with from Sri Aurobindo to bring home the point
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), how the Mahasarasvati power supported a
where the strenuous effort to perform the perfect perfection in a matrix of a thousand
same task repeatedly so that there can be imperfections:
no imperfection was so bothersome — a
repetition that aroused intense anguish, “Mahasaraswati presides over... detail of
suffering and disdain! Moreover, OCD seems organisation and execution, relation of parts

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