Re: MF Discussion Topic for July 2005

From: Nathan Pila (pila@sympatico.ca)
Date: Wed Jul 06 2005 - 20:24:21 BST

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    Horse,

    Tom Cruise received a lot of flak for his opinion that psychotherapy is
    nonsense. Well, he might be the wrong messenger but the message could very
    well be one that has merit. There are today in the USA about 650 different
    'schools' that claim that their idea of the mind is the right one and the
    others are all misguided. It reminds me a bit of religion where we see a
    similar thing occuring. A gestaltist thinks his/her way is the right way; a
    jungean thinks the same thing about his/her approach etc.

    The brain is so incredibly complex and so far we haven't been able to come
    up with even a theory of how it all works, so it is prudent to assume that
    anyone who claims to have a cure to someones emotional distress might be
    deceiving him or herself.

    Nathan

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Horse" <horse@darkstar.uk.net>
    To: <moq_focus@moq.org>
    Sent: Monday, July 04, 2005 7:58 PM
    Subject: MF Discussion Topic for July 2005

    > Hi Folks
    >
    > Apologies for not having announced this sooner but as there was only one
    > suggestion
    > this month there didn't seem much point putting out a Call for Votes.
    > Nathan's suggestion:
    >
    > Psychotherapy is nonsense
    >
    > is this months topic by default.
    >
    > I'm away for a couple of days but I'll forward any posts as soon as I get
    > back which
    > should be Friday.
    > In the meantime Nathan should prepare an introductory post - relating the
    > subject to the
    > MoQ - and send it in.
    >
    > MF rules and such included at the end of the post
    >
    > Cheers all
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