**Title** 202011011515 Neurotic and psychotic problems cannot be solved by reasoning. **Source** Wittgenstein and Psychotherapy From Paradox to wonder. John M. Heaton **Date** 1 Nov 2020 **Tags** #language **Neurosis cannot be solved by reasoning with them, because it result from an internal contradictions. Interpretations, giving explanation of symptoms is not helpful. Patients need to see that contradictions themselves.** **Reference** In both paradoxes and in neurosis we are confronted by problems that we cannot solve by reasoning, they are not empirical but aporetic....Psychotherapists and psychiatrists are well aware that an abstract logical analysis of neurotic or psychotic problems rarely has much effect. People struggling with them in their lives need to understand the aporia from within, in the way that they themselves have come to experience them; they need clarity not knowledge. (p26) [[202009071534 Notes Reading Wittgenstein and Psychotherapy. From Paradox to wonder. John M. Heaton]] Chapter 2. The paradox of despair Wittgenstein and Psychotherapy From Paradox to wonder. John M. Heaton **Cross-links**