Emőke Bagdy, clinical psychologist, psychotherapist, candidate of psychology, was honored with the Civic Hungary Award for her lifelong dedicated service to people's mental health as a matter of national destiny. Demokrata employee Judit Szabó interviewed the professor emeritus of Károli Gáspár Református University.
...- Self-centeredness and egoism do not bring happiness, at most the money and possessions that are coveted today, which play a ten percent role in happiness. Positive psychology considers satisfaction and the capacity for joy to be happiness, which it was able to prove by showing the sustaining power of love relationships. If you have someone, a partner, a partner, whom you love, if you have a family who are the most important to you, and if you have a significant circle of friends, then you have a chance for health, happiness, and a long life - according to many decades of Harvard University research .
Demokrata: - He has his own interface on YouTube, and in his channel launch greeting, he also talks about how the quality of our life is not what we achieve during performance pressure, because the economy of our soul, the "treasure of uniqueness" we find is much more important. How do we start the search?
– My answer to this is short and clear: with self-knowledge. Attila József recommends that "even if you don't wash yourself, you can only wash your face in someone else". The spiritual labyrinth needs a guide, Ariadne's thread, to reveal and understand the secret driving forces of our soul. In that thousand-colored, but at least rainbow-colored world, where information floods us from all sides and there are no stable orientation points, we have to find the anchors of our own world. No one owns the Philosopher's Stone. If we follow this path, or at least walk it, then we will realize that we have the seed of the mission within ourselves, we will find our self, our identity that we can take on. In this way, we will be able to stand up as responsible, committed people with a solid spiritual backbone, to stand up for everything we believe in...
… Democrat: – Recently, he has been criticized because he firmly stands for the need to convince people of the importance of vaccination. Today, the leadership of more and more countries is thinking about making the vaccine mandatory. What do you think about this?
– If we don't understand the message of the pandemic, we will run into new dangers. The epidemic warns us to work together, take care of each other, preserving life has become our common task. I remained pro-vaccination, moving in the direction of the least harmful consequence, I realized from the beginning that the vaccine is relatively the safest lifeline. Survival is our goal. According to science, getting vaccinated and vaccinated as soon as possible means the best chance for this. While we bicker, lives are wasted! I believe it is anti-social to be anti-vaccine.
Democrat: - Last fall, he was also attacked by another group of psychologists because he publicly agreed that he did not agree with sensitizing preschoolers to homosexuality, for example through fairy tales. How do you deal with these criticisms?
"It's hard for me to react to this differently than I did." "I'm standing here, I can't do otherwise", all my knowledge and convictions are against "sensitization" in kindergarten. This is when the software is downloaded in the child's development. That is, automatic, spontaneous, pattern-following identification. It is not then and not in this way that we can raise the child to be tolerant of otherness. Since the expression of my position was followed by condemning stigmatization instead of professional dialogue, I took note that 1,245 of my fifteen thousand colleagues are only capable of condemnation and distancing. Since the free expression of opinion should be mutually valid, without judgment, there was no point in further discourse.
– In mid-June, the National Assembly finally adopted the pedophile law for the sake of the healthy development of children, which prohibits LGBTQI-themed educational programs and advertisements, in other words, the promotion of gender ideology in kindergartens and schools...
- I would like to state that I draw a sharp line between homosexuality and pedophilia in the field of sexual differences. Abnormal sexual activity that exposes innocent, defenseless children to permanent physical-mental-relationship damage must be condemned and prevented. This stands for pedophilia, which is pathological and harmful ...
… Democrat: – What do you think about LGBTQI's attempts at violent redemption?
"I refuse." The problem is that, in addition to the intention to sensitize, in the name of misinterpreted freedom, it promotes the diversity of gender identity, the free attempts, the patronage of intentions to undergo surgery against the will of the parents. The influence of defenseless and adventurous young people with a trend-following mindset is personality destruction. I will not accept this at all. Neither is stigmatizing those with different opinions, calling them exclusionary. Why do those who are themselves violent and force people to make decisions on a yes-no level ask for tolerance? The more sensible are listening, the timid are retreating, and the movement is advancing unstoppably across America and Europe. Today, worldwide, we are living in an era of backlash against former minorities, those who were dragged and maimed. The white man is sent to the minority for the sake of promotion, finally getting their rights; let the former oppressors be punished! Homosexuals have every right to wish for equality, but all other sexual orientations should not be included in their civil rights struggle. The Hungarian pedophilia law stipulates that the right and responsibility for psychosexual education and influence must be returned to the parent. In this way, extreme influences in kindergarten, school and outside can be avoided. I am very sorry that the law is causing such a huge stir...
The full interview can be read on the Demokrata website.
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