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> The Western Psychological profession as a whole seems to be very out of<br>> touch. They still cling to clearly outdated modes from Freud, while physical<br>> medicine seems to be moving forward in its models.<br><br>Actually you maybe confusing psychology and psychoanalysis (the actual field of Freud, Jung...)<br>Scientific psychology hardly relies on Freudian theories anymore, or on any other author in that field. Psychology has absorbed a few concepts from psychoanalysis, but mostly altered them ib doing so. <br>As an example, the idea of the subconscious as Freud meant it was completely left behind, and leaving the subconscious behind means leaving LOTS of stuffs behind. <br>However, psychiatry (which is not to be confused with psycholgy either) still relies a lot on psychoanalytic concepts (at least in Europe), especially about neuroses. But as time passes, neurosciences are counterbalancing it.<br><br>These past three years I've been studying psychology in a european university. Indeed I had a few courses about psychoanalysis, but these were clearly distinct courses, not mixed with the others. And whenever I was told about the psychoanalytic point of view on something in other courses (say, usual example, about the role of dreams), I was cautiously reminded that it was one theory among others, and not the most favored one at all. Moreover, most of the time I was also exposed to neuropsychological alternatives getting much more consensus among the academical and clinical staff there.<br><br>No clearly, psychoanalytic memes are slowly disappearing from the psychological field. Neurosciences are blowing it away. <br><br>(I apologize for the poor English.)<br><br>> <br>> Message: 8<br>> Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:06:09 -0400<br>> From: Sabrina Ballard <sabrina.ballard@hotmail.com><br>> To: ExI chat list <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org><br>> Subject: [ExI] Current Psychology<br>> Message-ID:<br>> <AANLkTikFmQeXVXC25Qy1kr+Mp8QTXnSgyA71t7BxVPBm@mail.gmail.com><br>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"<br>> <br> Is this my subjective<br>> interpretation, or are any of you able to access information that would<br>> confirm and/or deny this feeling.<br>> <br>> Is there some benefit to Western Psychology in clinging to the ideas of<br>> Freud and Jung? Are other models too flawed to take their places?<br>> <br>> ~Ballard<br> </body>
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