Posted on 02/18/2005 1:00:51 PM PST by colorcountry
That's sort of what happened around 1975 when homosexuality was removed from the DSM which is the bible of shrinks. That removal was the start of homo's coming out of the closet and has lead to the demands for special laws and "gay marriage" which is an oxymoron. The reason the shrinks removed homosexuality as a mental illness was that so many of the shrinks were homo's.
"How exactly does a psychology text book become "outmoded"?"
I think few people remember that homosexuality was only removed from DSM as a psychological disorder in the early 1970's.
No problem; best of luck to you.
There is also that brief period when PEDOPHILLIA was removed from the DSM and then put back in under a later issued addendum.
The APA is a joke, it like the ABA and the AMA is VOLUNTARY.
I thought ACLU = American Criminal Liberties Union.
and after seven years of rough handling, they collectively get damaged.
The "older" texts do not even consider Christianity to be a mental illness...
There have been huge technological advances which have enabled researchers to gain very specific knowledge about neurochemistry and the physical functioning of the brain, which just didn't exist 10-15 years ago. One example is the imaging technology which has allowed comparisons of male and female brains working on the same task -- in boys/men a very task-specific area in the brain shows huge activity while the rest remains dark; in girls/women, that task-specific area lights up more than the rest, but not as much as in the male brains, and many other parts of the brain light up to a lesser but very significant degree.
This sort of new knowledge is very important in fighting various ignorance-based assumptions of recent decades, including the nonsense that gender differences in intellectual performance are entirely due to "sexist" socialization. Havrad President Lawrence Summers used another example in his "controversial" statements about gender differences, pointing out that many mental problems which used to be attributed to socialization/parenting styles, etc. have since been found to be genetic/organic in origin. The key example he used was autism, which leading psychology and medical researchers once generally agreed was due to personality problems in the parents affecting how they interacted with their children. Now that advanced brain-imaging techniques are available, researchers have found very clear abnormalities in how certain areas of the brain grow in autistic children.
Consider that BF Skinner teaches behavior is LEARNED and he is the father of modern psychology.
YET, homo-recruiters like the GLSEN, PFLAG, and the GSA (student sex club) come in and say behavior is "born".
They might as well say "born to party".
It can be both. They're Anti-Christian and a bunch of liberal communist liberty-snatching criminals.
Thanks ... I should have figured they'd thought of it. Cheaper for the school district, as well as giving them control over the content.
Ahh gotcha...my double think isn't up to speed.
Easy fix: just go to some used-book warehouse, or find some old closed schools that haven't yet been razed, and collect the textbooks of 40 years ago or older. The upside to this is that the children might actually learn something.
I recently took an introductory psychology class at a local college. It was very heavy on brain anatomy and biochemistry, and experimental evidence from animal studies. There was very little "touchy-feely" stuff -- Freud's theories were skimmed over quickly, with both the book and professor emphasizing that there was little evidence for most of his ideas, and that they were being covered just as background on the history of psychology. Modern psychology and psychiatry are primarily serious areas of scientific research, notwithstanding that some garbage still gets mixed in, and that the early years of these fields were heavy on wild and subjective speculation.
Well, personally, I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy! /rimshot
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