From MindHacks.com: The Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine just published a recent, and, presumably, slightly tongue in cheek article, drawing parallels between psychiatry, clinical psychology and traditional religious practices. Share/Bookmark
Browsing the archives for the Freud category
What’s up with reductionism? While reviewing the chapter on Marx in Pals it hit me: it seems to me that few would have any problems with a doctor analyzing your symptoms and finding that the root of the problem is something quite different from your symptoms. So if folks are unhappy with the positions Freud, [...]
Freud 2: A look at Chapters 1 and 2. Freud states that human nature is inherently destructive, andti-social, and anti-cultural. This puts us at odds with having a harmonius civilization. Instinct is controlled by coercion. We’re lazy and have passions that aren’t controlled by reason. It is only through a superior force and the renunciation [...]
Freud 1 What I appreciate about The Future of an Illusion [FOI] is that it is short enough to read and straightforward enough to grasp. I have read the text just about each time I have offered the course, so that makes it about four times. I am reading the text yet again, this time [...]