摘要：It is a common enough experience. You are talking to an otherwise sensible friend or colleague concerning subjects of mutual interest. After a few dozen characterisations that sound false, implausible, or just plain ludicrous, you realise you friend is talking to (at) you from within a ‘system.’ He may be a fundamentalist Christian, a health food advocate, a Marxist. He may have ‘caught’ psychotherapy jargon like the flu when he was in therapy. Your attempts to bring your friend back to reality, listen to reason or consider the evidence, fail; and the two of you find yourselves at an impasse
