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Daytripper: I don't believe the set of models and one-to-one representations Freud established, because I think he just tried to make his own personal translations/metaphors universal, but...I don't think any good psychiatrist/psychologist/psychotheraputic shamanic headshrinker believes that, either.This would be ignoring the armchair or pop psychologist, as well as the placatory licensed drug pusher...
...as well as the last 70-100 years of behaviorism, humanism, existential psych, gestalt therapy, cognitive therapy, cognitive-behavioral work, social psych, evolutionary psych, neuroscience, and so on. The study of the human mind is not incredibly rooted in Freud anymore, and if that's your argument for 'psychology as a charade,' then I don't see it exactly holding up. Unless you're arguing that it's a charade that works. What's funny to me is that while psychology didn't stop at Freud, our vocabularies are often littered with his ideas. When you say that someone is 'rationalizing,' or 'getting defensive,' or 'repressed,' or so on, you're using some ideas that he invented and/or refined. Not all of his stuff is crap - we all get defensive, time to time. But psychology has moved on. Just ask Wikipedia, or a psych major - 'Oedipal' is not exactly a part of my daily terminology.
American psychiatry too has moved on, though not in the best direction. It's pretty well rooted in reductionism and materialism. Of course, that's a huge problem for Scientologists, too, because they feel that studying human behavior - particularly studying it as a kind of animal behavior, with strong physical components (the nervous system, glands, hormones) - this practice always must deny the nobility of human beings. Of course, they also feel that studying human behavior is unnecessary because someone has already done all the work for us - El Ron. Now, reductionism certainly can deny what's beautiful and divine in humanity, but I don't think Scientology is exactly cornering the market in preserving the dignity of mankind. Also, the idea that any and all studies of human behavior are evil is a pretty obnoxious belief, derived from both the assumption that all research on human behavior treats people like cattle (again, turning partial truths to blanket statements), and also the concept that all the work's already done.
Seriously, I've known some otherwise rational and intelligent people, with splendid lives, who really believe that without Hubbard and his dictates, they could never have been intelligent, useful, successful human beings.
Spot on. That's pretty much the company line - El Rono sells his shtick as the one-and-only way to help people, period. El Ronito thusly creates a miracle monopoly - he is the only authorized source for anything good/magical/powerful in our lives, and whatever he says, goes. Nothing else really works, and if you think it does, then that just shows how deviant you've become. Apparently only their techniques are worth a damn. From my eclectic views, that's crazy talk.
P.S. Scientology vs. Podiatry! This is fucking hilarious! Take a look-see here. |
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