Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site unc.unc.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!talcott!panda!genrad!decvax!mcnc!unc!fsks From: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: libraries, psychology, and you Message-ID: <132@unc.unc.UUCP> Date: Mon, 12-Aug-85 13:49:41 EDT Article-I.D.: unc.132 Posted: Mon Aug 12 13:49:41 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 18-Aug-85 20:43:01 EDT References: <3109@nsc.UUCP> Reply-To: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann) Distribution: net Organization: CS Dept, U. of N. Carolina, Chapel Hill Lines: 20 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