On Sun, 30 Mar 2003, RE wrote:
> It's the only game in town because the other theories tend to ignore
> psychological conflict and assume very simplistic, abstract models of
> psychological existence. Within psychology pure behaviorism is completely
> marginalized, its eradication of subjectivity was simply impossible to
> maintain. It was superseded by cognitive-behavioral psychology, which began
> to entertain mental processes in the form of memory and cognitive
> processing. But c-b theory has very little comprehension of psychological
> development, as is evident in its essentially existentialist orientation to
> therapy. Humanist theory evades what psychoanalysis tries to grapple with.
> Check out Russell Jacoby's book Social Amnesia for an amusing tour.
> Physiological and biological approaches are just that.
> Randy
>
I'm sorry, but I gotta pull rank on you. I've been doing research in and teaching psychology at universities and colleges for 14 years now, and almost none of what you say is an accurate description of the academic discipline of psychology.
Miles