Originally Posted by aklim

As I understand it, it was his friend that came to the conclusion and Joan F was saying that Bobby has suffered the ultimate punishment. I don't believe in psychologists and psychiatrists. IMO, the way they gather the data is scientific but their conclusions and what not are pretty much as SWAG. I poke fun at the mindfux and their silly conclusions not Joan.

Thanx.

Actually, it is more of a personal obsevation that leads me to the conclusion that people are going to screw up at one point or another.

Originally Posted by aklim

As I understand it, it was his friend that came to the conclusion and Joan F was saying that Bobby has suffered the ultimate punishment. I don't believe in psychologists and psychiatrists. IMO, the way they gather the data is scientific but their conclusions and what not are pretty much as SWAG. I poke fun at the mindfux and their silly conclusions not Joan.

Thanx.

Actually, it is more of a personal obsevation that leads me to the conclusion that people are going to screw up at one point or another.

Originally Posted by MS Fowler

I actually agree that much, if not all the pop psych out there is pure bunk. Psychologists need to call something a "syndrome" in order to get a payment code for the insurance company. Hence we get ADD, or HADD, etc instead of simply kids who lack discipline, or focus.

The only person who never screws up is the guy who never does ANYTHING.

Originally Posted by GermanStar

Oh, don't sell the pharmaceutical companies short in that arena either. In the case of Ritalin, for example, the disease was "discovered" after the cure, as little more than a stupendously successful marketing ploy.