Comments on: Depth Psychotherapy Heals http://www.briancollinson.ca/index.php/2010/06/depth-psychotherapy-heals.html Journeying Toward Wholeness Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:00:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Brian C http://www.briancollinson.ca/index.php/2010/06/depth-psychotherapy-heals.html/comment-page-1#comment-39 Brian C Fri, 18 Jun 2010 01:38:44 +0000 http://www.briancollinson.ca/?p=908#comment-39 I think that there is some real validity to using scientific approaches to understanding the effectiveness of various tools and techniques. However, there are some real limitations to this approach that any honest psychology must acknowledge. A particularly important limitation which I certainly think that it is important to see, is that much of the "Science" that some approaches to psychological healing rely upon does not, and cannot, adequately take the experiencing human subject into account. If we lose sight of that subject, we have lost "who" it is who needs to be healed. How can we then help that person? Similarly, if the person is merely seen as analogous to a computer that is in need of re-programming to remove software bugs -- an approach known as "cognitivism" -- the psychological uniqueness and dignity of the individual human being is being entirely missed. To embark upon that path would be an extremely dangerous direction for the discipline of psychology. Depth psychology is an emphatic "No" to such approaches. I think that there is some real validity to using scientific approaches to understanding the effectiveness of various tools and techniques. However, there are some real limitations to this approach that any honest psychology must acknowledge. A particularly important limitation which I certainly think that it is important to see, is that much of the “Science” that some approaches to psychological healing rely upon does not, and cannot, adequately take the experiencing human subject into account. If we lose sight of that subject, we have lost “who” it is who needs to be healed. How can we then help that person?

Similarly, if the person is merely seen as analogous to a computer that is in need of re-programming to remove software bugs — an approach known as “cognitivism” — the psychological uniqueness and dignity of the individual human being is being entirely missed. To embark upon that path would be an extremely dangerous direction for the discipline of psychology. Depth psychology is an emphatic “No” to such approaches.

]]> By: jamenta http://www.briancollinson.ca/index.php/2010/06/depth-psychotherapy-heals.html/comment-page-1#comment-37 jamenta Tue, 15 Jun 2010 04:33:58 +0000 http://www.briancollinson.ca/?p=908#comment-37 Interesting the results on drug therapy - just atrocious. And yet how the drug companies and corporate value system we have in US has have pushed it like anti-depressants are the healing waters of Bernadette. I've come to distrust more and more academia given so much bias that so many so-called "experts" are willfully blind too. And these often are well-respected scholars and leaders in the establishment. I suppose Jung did the same by breaking with Freud. Thanks for the link to the research paper Brian. It makes it easier to break away from the official "adopted" views - so important in order to achieve real psychological growth. Interesting the results on drug therapy – just atrocious. And yet how the drug companies and corporate value system we have in US has have pushed it like anti-depressants are the healing waters of Bernadette.

I’ve come to distrust more and more academia given so much bias that so many so-called “experts” are willfully blind too. And these often are well-respected scholars and leaders in the establishment. I suppose Jung did the same by breaking with Freud.

Thanks for the link to the research paper Brian. It makes it easier to break away from the official “adopted” views – so important in order to achieve real psychological growth.

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