Although this came out more flippant than I'd hoped.

Absolutely. Hey, let's ignore your trauma and just say you're reacting improperly.

I don't deny it could be useful in very specific circumstances, but the first stumbling block was that reactions were deemed 'maladaptive' I found it really invalidating.

Sadly that's true. I guess cos I never followed it into practice I never had to deal with that issue as anything more than a thought experiment. That's the kinda thing that would have kept me up at nights, though.

I hadn't considered a preferred method by that point, but I would later choose Rogers'-style work myself. CBT however, never got on with the ideas.

You'll nail it. Psychodynamic was where I started too.

There's currently a comic from Mad Cave Studios called Orla, which you may find interesting madcavestudios.com/series/orla/... find it here. :)

As far as I can see, the only real difference there is that with Sooty, Sweep and Sue more of an effort is made to hide that they're puppets.

How Futurists Envision Advanced Tech Being Used: We’ve created this machine to do your dead-end job, giving you more time for leisure/creative efforts.

How It’s Actually Used: We’ve created this machine to flood the world w/auto-generated art, giving you more time to spend doing your dead-end job.

Happy Birthday, man!!