Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84 chuqui version 1.7 9/23/84; site nsc.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!gatech!nsc!chuqui From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Laurie Sefton, C/O chuqui) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: self-actualization Message-ID: <3124@nsc.UUCP> Date: Tue, 13-Aug-85 12:50:31 EDT Article-I.D.: nsc.3124 Posted: Tue Aug 13 12:50:31 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 15-Aug-85 22:08:55 EDT References: <1744@reed.UUCP> <621@ttidcc.UUCP> <1680@hao.UUCP> <313@tove.UUCP> <1690@hao.UUCP> Reply-To: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Laurie Sefton, C/O chuqui) Organization: The Warlocks Cave Lines: 40 Keywords: Freudian, Jungian, Skinnerian Summary: Psychological theories change!! When I was a tiny little person, and getting my first degree, I happened to be getting it in bio, with an emphasis on zoology. So, off to the psych department I romped, to take some animal behavior courses. Well, this being the mid-70's, the ethologists and the socio-biologists were in firm command, and the story was that non-human animals had little to no cognitive capacity.... And then, later, I decided to go back to school and get a degree in I/O psych. Now, the psych department, in its infinite wisdom, doesn't think that one who gets an I/O degree should take I/O classes only. So, off to various psych courses I toddled-- and lo and behold, they had changed all the answers in the last 7 years!!! The cognitive people had gotten ahold of the field, and it was shown that non-human animals had cognitive capacity after all? Great gobs of it!! In fact, one of my profs had just finished a study that showed that *rats could count* (and if you offer to buy Dr. Capaldi a drink, he'll tell you all about it--he'll even tell you all about it if you just ask!!!). I also found that within the department (and the I/O group) that differences abounded in basic philsophies of psychology (and try, when you have just taken the third final in 36 hours, to remember how *this* prof feels about causality). I had a hard-core Skinnerian, a hard-core cognitive, and one prof, who at the beginning of each semester (had him for more than one course..) would take out a picture of Freud, show it to the class, and tell them that this was the last they would see of Freud in *his* course. The moral of the story, boys and girls, is that there is more than one viewpoint in psychology, and while one school may say that you need therapy only when you have a disorder, others might feel that you should have it whenever you want to have psychological growth. Also-- (and Mr. Hollombe, correct me if I'm wrong) don't PhD students in Clinical have to go through psychoanalysis?? Laurie Sefton -- Chuq Von Rospach nsc!chuqui@decwrl.ARPA {cbosgd,fortune,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo}!nsc!chuqui