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I'll accept a hug. I am quite tollerant to being touched...

Psychology is a pseudo-science. How can anyone ever map one of the world's most intricate of machinery?

Good point. They have much to learn about the human brain and how it works.

I sure hope not. Social constructionism, a postmodern approach in sociology (my field), is alive and well. I was just discussing it in my MWF Introduction to Sociology class today. I am a social constructionist or poststructuralist myself.

not at all. it is possible to create and test hypotheses about the mind.

I feel a bit awkward, as a sociologist, defending psychology. The major organizations representing the two fields have not always gotten along so well.

However, while most people think of psychology as clinical psychology or counseling psychology (two distinct specializations), a lot of psychologists are far removed from a clinical setting. They do research, often experimental, into education, work, animal behavior, and other areas. These psychologists have little or nothing in common with the popular image of a psychologist as a therapist.

Put down your copy of "Dianetics" and give us the gun.... nice and slow like... and nobody will get hurt!! !









douchetard!!

Ha ha!! ! Well, honestly, science is always being re-evaluted and updated. Nothing ever is truly wrought in stone, silly. One simple discovery could and can throw science into upheavel. Think about the discoveries of many pre-historic men that had tools in regions were they weren't thought previously mandated. Anthropology is always being re-written.

And, i don't have a copy of Dianetics. But if i did, there would be nothing wrong with that. L. Ron Hubbard had some credibility I'm sure, to have so many people to follow him, and I don't point fingers boy, nor should you: I would never use a jocose statement like 'douch-tard' to end a semi-condescendingly, mediocre-pedantic rant with little reference but a demeaning statement to weaken a person through unpopular and/or irrelevent, dis-ostentatious thought.

But i am right. Psychology is nothing more than pseudo-science that has been received haughtily through the meshing of pharmaceuticals that heavily bolster our economy; 'nough said.

Psychology that is not grounded in Neurology and the physical functioning of the brain is mostly pseudoscience IMO.

Oh, and Ken Wilbur is a New Age crank.

Postmodernism is a load of crap that is destroying reason and science. It's a bunch of meaningless babble.

I would say you are reifying postmodernism, but then I would be responding as a postmodernist.