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From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Laurie Sefton, C/O chuqui)
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Subject: Re: self-actualization
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Date: Tue, 13-Aug-85 12:50:31 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 13 12:50:31 1985
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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

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