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From: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: libraries, psychology, and you
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Date: Mon, 12-Aug-85 13:49:41 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 12 13:49:41 1985
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In article <3109@nsc.UUCP> chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Laurie Sefton, C/O chuqui) writes:
>
>Upon checking out the local bookstore, I found 180 titles found under the
>section titled "psychology". 12 titles were written by such people as
>Freud, Skinner, Jung, and Rogers.  The rest were titles such as "Nice Girls
>Do!", "Psycho-Cybernetics and Your Life", various TA books, etc.
>
>The moral?  One could have a vast library from this "psychology" section,
>and the content would be nil.  If you are *that* interested in psychology,
>why don't you wander off to your local university, and *take a few courses
>in it!!*  Believe me (I've been there), there are enough different bodies
>of thought within a psychology dept. to satisfy anyone's viewpoint.  As
>long as you come in with a reasonably open mind....

The only problem I see is that the books were mis-catalogged.
They should have been in the "Self-Help" section.
Self-help books do not pretend teach any academic discipline,
and psychology text books are useless for self-help.

	Frank Silbermann