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   From: dank@nugget.org   
      
   Immortalist wrote...   
   > Attribution is a concept in Social Psychology referring to how   
   > individuals explain behaviors of others. ...The two main types of   
   > attributions are internal and external attributions...   
      
   There really is only one type of attribution, and who the blame is   
   attributed to depends on who is paying the therapist's bill.  If   
   you are paying him $500/hour for advice, then everyone else is at   
   fault, but if they are paying him $500/hour then you are at fault.   
      
   No reputable psychologist would risk losing a paying patient by   
   blaming him for his fucked up problems, so someone else must be   
   blamed instead.  But often a patient is referred by family members   
   who find his personality annoying, and since they are the ones   
   paying for his therapy, his problems are the result of his own   
   personal character flaws.  Psychologists are whores and will tell   
   WHOEVER IS PAYING what they want to hear.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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