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GermanStar · #1 11-22-2006, 10:49 PM

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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.

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.

aklim · #2 11-23-2006, 12:59 PM

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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.

Which do parents want to hear? Their kid is a brat because of their lack of upbringing or that the kid has ADD, ADHD or whatever and this pill will cure him? Which way is the mindfuk going to sway? Turn the customer away to another mindfuk who will tell them what they want to hear or give a pill that sedatates the brat.