Re: What's Love Got to Do With It? NOTHING!!!

Anne Reynolds wrote:

> "Matty" <kaiwainz@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> news:2gmispF4gl7aU1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
>>>>She'll just simply claim that you are lying, or don't remember due to
>>>>repressed memories.
>>>
>>>As part of my training in therapy work, as a Clinical Psychologist, I
have
>>>gone through extensive work on myself, part of which was looking at so
>>>called "repressed memories". This was a fad in the late 80's and early
90's
>>>which was seen as a panacea of mental health. Mostly nowadays it's seen
for
>>>what it is, " a get rich quick" scheme for unqualified pratitioners,
along
>>>with re-birthing abd other bunkum.
>>
>>Funny thing about that repressed memory; you have people who've been
failures  
>>their wholes lives so they pay some quack a few hundred for "repressed
>>therapy" and then blame some one touching their old fella, which never
>>actually occurred; as seen in court cases where this "repressed"
bull**** was  
>>used and later found that the memory was nothing more than imagination
in  
>>overdrive.
> 
> I couldn't agree more with you. Isn't it in Colarado where two women
have
> just been sentenced to 16 years for using another fad, a rebirthing
> technique with a 10 year old and killed the poor child.
> 
> Anyway, I found the article I was looking for, I'm sorry it's so long,
but
> it is really very good:-
> 
> Mind Games: Psychological Warfare Between Therapists and Scientists
> http://chronicle.com/free/v49/i25/25b00701.htm
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The really scary part, this was actually just on Law and Order a few weeks
ago.

I've always said there is a lot of quackery in psychology etc. etc. Too
bad 
there aren't enough people to challenge it. One thing that I do get
annoyed 
about is this "pill for every problem" mentality. Sorry, cramming someone 
chocablock full of every anti-depresent will not solve the problem.
Getting at 
the source/root of the problem and actually addressing it is the way to
solve it.

Its like having a rotting wall and simply painting over it rather than
ripping 
out the wall and replacing it.

Matty
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