Re: Is the Science of Psychology Possible
- From: fenugreek <efgh3@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2007 08:55:34 -0700
talk2mercyst...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
My name is Saka Abideen Aderibige Jayeholla, A year one student of
Philosophy at Lagos State University, Nigeria,West Africa.Pls i will
like to know if the science of psychology is possiblle? i am intrested
in this topic because i over hear some people discussing it i wasnt
sure but i need fact before i can go into arguement with them.i will
be so glad to hear from you.
Jaylunatics@xxxxxxxxx
In the USA, "psychological science" is almost completely obscured
behind the noisy clutter of the pop-culture market. So if that
circumstance has spilled-over to other parts of the world, then don't
let the speculative dogmas transpiring in talk-shows, private
practices, and clinics necessarily lead you to a skepticism of "Does
it really exist?". Perhaps this article can help sort the matter out:
http://chronicle.com/free/v49/i25/25b00701.htm
According to Tavris: "Yet while the public assumes, vaguely, that
therapists must be 'scientists' of some sort, many of the widely
accepted claims promulgated by therapists are based on subjective
clinical opinions and have been resoundingly disproved by empirical
research conducted by psychological scientists. Here are a few
examples that have been shown to be false:
1) Low self-esteem causes aggressiveness, drug use, prejudice, and low
achievement.
2) Abused children almost inevitably become abusive parents, causing a
'cycle of abuse'.
3) Therapy is beneficial for most survivors of disasters, especially
if intervention is rapid.
4) Memory works like a tape recorder, clicking on at the moment of
birth; memories can be accurately retrieved through hypnosis, dream
analysis, or other therapeutic methods.
5) Traumatic experiences, particularly of a sexual nature, are
typically 'repressed' from memory, or split off from consciousness
through 'dissociation'.
6) The way that parents treat a child in the first five years (three
years) (one year) (five minutes) of life is crucial to the child's
later intellectual and emotional success.
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Side note: Daniel Dennett's "heterophenomenology" might be regarded as
a kind of "upgraded" behaviorism and he champions it over
autophenomological method-proposals for science (like Chalmers').
Seems to receive much criticism, though, and not always from just the
"enemy" or opposing side:
Heterophenomenology -- "The neutral path leading from objective
physical science and its insistence on the third-person point of view,
to a method of phenomenological description that can (in principle) do
justice to the most private and ineffable subjective experiences,
while never abandoning the methodological principles of science."
http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/papers/chalmersdeb3dft.htm
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