XPost: alt.revisionism, soc.culture.usa, alt.psychology   
   XPost: sci.psychology   
      
   "Sara Salzman"  wrote in message   
   news:catamont-D02435.07432209112006@news.giganews.com...   
   > In article ,   
   > "Ben H C'ramer"  wrote:   
   >   
   >> "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.   
   >   
   > Cramer... a psychologist?   
   >   
   > Did you, perhaps, stop practicing because your patients didn't like   
   > being called "cunts"?   
      
   No, they all committed suicide.   
      
   Even those who weren't suicidal!   
      
   --   
   Philip Mathews   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)