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

In news:2go7v9F4vchuU1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 <kaiwainz@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> gave us all a good laugh with the
following...

> 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
> <snip>
>
> 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

The problem is that some depression has an organic cause, and some
depression has a mental cause.   Oftne doctors don't take the time to try
to
distinquish between the two because it is hard to tell.  It could be one,
or
the other, or both.  So they shove pills at them, if it helps, fine, if
not
then most of the anti-depressants are harmless enough where at least
you've
caused no harm.   That is unless they try to give you a really heavy
psychotropic, like an uptake inhibitor, those things can have nasty side
effects.

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