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   From: benjaminnotyahu@home.net   
      
   "brainfart"  wrote in message   
   news:NBA4h.3543$vP1.1455@newssvr13.news.prodigy.com...   
   > Frank Arthur wrote...   
   >> I wonder why you are so fearful of psychologists?   
   >> I notice you were particularly bothered by your quote "suppressed sexual   
   >> feelings towards his   
   >>  mother". Does the thought of you having suppressed sexual feelings   
   >> toward your mother bother you?   
   >   
   > I'm not fearful of psychologists, I just recognize psychology for the neo-   
   > religious crap it is.  I believe that it was St. Freud who postulated that   
   > everything symbolized either a penis or vagina except for the cigars he   
   > sucked on incessantly until his cancerous jaw had to be removed.   
   >   
   > Also, do not confuse my criticism of psychology with criticism of   
   > psychiatry.   
   > Psychiatry has a medical component which I respect, though it remains   
   > tainted by its association with the discredited field of psychology.  Some   
   > people have suggested that psychiatry be merged into the field of   
   > neurology,   
   > something I agree with because it assumes a physiological basis for mental   
   > disorders rather than speculating on the patient's childhood experiences.   
   > The difference is as great as that between recognizing a viral epidemic or   
   > attributing the epidemic to "bad airs" and demons.  The virus can be   
   > observed and its genome sequenced, while the demons and bad airs are just   
   > speculation and yet they are presented as scientific fact.   
      
   I totally agree with your views on psychology. I am a psychologist but I no   
   longer practise or teach it exactly because if the bullshit inherent in the   
   "science". Every five years or so, there's an almost complete reversal of   
   currently held trends, all based on nothing but opinion, and generally the   
   opinion of the loudest and most vocal group of clods.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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