Re: Behaviors that may indicate BPD

John M Price PhD wrote:
> In sci.psychology article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : A lot of updating of Freudian theory has been going on over the last 
> : couple of decades, especially in France, (Lacan and Derrida) but now 
> : expanded heavily into the US.
>
> Hate to tell you this, but psychoanalysis is not updating anything.  It is 
> a non-empirical field of thought.  Not one fact can shake it from its 
> desired interpretation.  And, as with most hermeneutic endeavors, displays 
> more information about hte analyst than the analysand.  
>
> Sure, there are many schools.  This isn't advancement in the scientific 
> sense where data literally kill an idea and a new, more fitting theory is 
> developed.  This branching is much more like the schisms of a religion, 
> another data free zone of thought where tests of ideas is particularly 
> irrelevant.
>
> Read Crews & Webster for starters.  Come back when you know a thing or two 
> about the history of psychology which, by all reasonable accounts, doesn't 
> include psychoanalysis save for its impact on psychiatry.

Yep, psychology is mostly political theory couched in faux scientific 
language.

Bob