Is anyone else troubled by the fact that these psychological studies, once you've been exposed to them, seem indispensable to everyday life, but you just can't get used to the idea of actually studying them much?
Maybe it's just the clinical or analytical nature of formal psychology that makes it hard to swallow. Perhaps reading the Proverbs or other sage literature dispenses the same helpful advice, but without the clinical self-awareness.
And, aren't psychologists the ultimate sociopaths, distorting the metaphysics or their surroundings?
Speaking as a former psych major, I don't think there's any real psychology behind his writing, aside from the basic concept of a sociopath. His writing is closer to philosophy or pop psychology, and there is nothing clinical or formal about it...
> And, aren't psychologists the ultimate sociopaths, distorting the metaphysics or their surroundings?
No. Writing a paper about SQL injection attacks is much different than using a SQL injection attack to grab credit card numbers.
Exactly. His ideas aren't science, even social science.
His philosophy is a prism--like analyzing a story in terms of Jungian archetypes, or a picture in terms of phallic imagery. There isn't a falsifiable theory in there anywhere. Yes this applies to Freud too, which is why his ideas have largely been discredited and ignored in mainstream psychology for years.
I don't think the author makes a claim that he is a psychologist, he refers himself as pop psychologist,probably jokingly
From the article:
The term arrested development is now deprecated by
professional psychologists and has been replaced by
developmentally disabled.This is good news for <b>us pop
psychologists</b> hawking crude over-simplifications about
functional adults, since we can safely steal the term.
Maybe it's just the clinical or analytical nature of formal psychology that makes it hard to swallow. Perhaps reading the Proverbs or other sage literature dispenses the same helpful advice, but without the clinical self-awareness.
And, aren't psychologists the ultimate sociopaths, distorting the metaphysics or their surroundings?