XPost: alt.psychology, alt.mindcontrol, sci.psychology   
   XPost: alt.psychology.psychoanalysis   
   From: quas@supermail.com.ua   
      
   brainfart wrote:   
   > Since that lady astronaut went crazy and kidnapped that other astronaut,   
   > everyone is fussing about how NASA's glorious psychological tests didn't   
   > detect her craziness, with nobody bothering to ask whether such tests   
   > really work at all.   
   >   
   > All this shows is that psychology is bullshit.  NASA paid a bunch of   
   > quacks several million dollars to interrogate her and subject her to a   
   > bunch of pseudoscientific tests that claim the ability to read minds.   
   > She obviously got close to a perfect score or she wouldn't have been   
   > approved, so she was officially diagnosed as one of the sanest people   
   > on the planet earth and outer space, but unfortunately she was insane   
   > and all those expert psycholalagists misdiagnosed her (though they   
   > haven't offered to refund their fees).   
      
   Many years before I heard the resume of article about the soviet   
   system of astronauts (cosminots) crewing, particularly about   
   psychology. The task was figured at the psychologists   
   looked such: create absolute psychological compliance   
   between members of the crew.   
      
   They, as I remember, did not study complexes of each personality   
   member but alternatively tested people on subject   
   their ability to co-operate with other people.   
      
   The result of studies got under secrecy.   
   (It was in the soviet union where   
   ideas of Freude where not so popular.)   
      
   I don't know where the ethic measure?   
   But it is known fact when in the Soviet Union   
   two astronauts (cosminots) took marriage   
   after few days meeting of each other.   
      
   By the way, the Novak family are known not only because space   
   exploring.   
   They were between of the European earliest explorers of America.   
   (As far as I remember from words of my sister,   
   to whom one of Novak told this many years ago.)   
      
   > Now NASA wants to "improve" the psychological testing program, perhaps   
   > by hiring Vulcans to perform mind melds on potential astronauts.  Or   
   > maybe they could hire that Dr. Park Dietz guy from the Andrea Yates   
   > trial to compare the subject's behavior to plots of fictional crime   
   > dramas he thinks he remembers seeing on television.  All I know is that   
   > it won't be cheap...   
      
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