[Aquinasfan]

I read something on FR recently that someone somewhere is proposing a person with radical beliefs or "bias" should be entered into the medical lexicon as a type of disorder that can be diagnosed as such. The first thing I thought of is how easy it could be to have such a person committed to mental institutions.

This was standard practice in the former Soviet Union, and a good reason why psychology should be severely scrutinized. Unfortunately, psychology, or psychological mumbo-jumbo, pervades our society.

As far as I know, the three main branches of psychology are Freudianism, Jungianism, and Behaviorism. It's apparent now that Freudianism was invented out of whole cloth. Jungianism is occultic. And Behaviorism, while it may contain trivial truths, is perniciously reductionistic. So what's left?

[twigs]

I thought it was the SU, but wasn't sure. Thanks for confirming that. I am not against psychology at all, but I think we need to tread carefully with it. As I read the Bible, I'm often struck with its psychological wisdom. That shouldn't be a surprise, of course, since the real source of the Bible, guiding people to write it who followed Him, is our creator. It's amazingly efficient to have the Creator to write the maintenance manual for His creation. Modern psychology has a much more circuitous path to tread. Not to mention it often starts at the wrong path altogether.

[trisham]

As far as I know, the three main branches of psychology are Freudianism, Jungianism, and Behaviorism. It's apparent now that Freudianism was invented out of whole cloth. Jungianism is occultic. And Behaviorism, while it may contain trivial truths, is perniciously reductionistic. So what's left?

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Drugs. Ritalin, prozac, zoloft, you name it.

[dsc]

"So what's left?"

Rational Emotive Therapy, per Albert Ellis. It's so down to earth, it's darn near conservative.