Posted by AuntieMel on June 23, 2004, at 9:03:14
In reply to Re: What I *really* don't get are the inconsistencies, posted by tabitha on June 23, 2004, at 1:53:25
I hope I don't offend anyone here, but arguing semantics gives me a kind of perverse pleasure.
And I don't know all the history here.
And I agree that referencing only one web site seems to me like a limited view.
But............(the nitpicking part)
this particular statement:
"Psychoanalysis has never been shown to help any condition, with the exception of the therapists bank account."
while certainly generalizing and sweeping and, since for every rule there is an exception, probably not accurate.....
it didn't seem to me as a personal attack of all that are in therapy.
The word psychoANALYSIS was used, not psychoTHERAPY. I tend to think of "pure" analysis to be the lay-on-the-couch type, with the therapist saying nothing but 'hmmmmm' while stroking his beard and writing in a notebook. My therapy, for example, leans towards analysis and is quite valuable, but I wouldn't call it "pure" analysis. It has elements of interpersonal, cognitive, etc. also.
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