Masson and the seduction theory

2001-10-24 Thread Allen Esterson
Stephen Black wrote: I've discovered a website of Allen Esterson (at http://www.human-nature.com/esterson/index.html) where he takes on Masson's claims regarding Freud's seduction theory. The discussion provides another good example of Freud's prediliction for revision without regret. Allen

Re: pet peeves from papers

2001-12-15 Thread Allen Esterson
with respect to that rule. Me too, until I was beaten into submission by copy editors of US journals. Allen Esterson London [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Childhood Sexual Abuse

2001-12-29 Thread Allen Esterson
On the subject of CSA, TIPsters may be interested in the information below. More details can be obtained from www.nspcc.org.uk/search. Search for prevalence study. Allen Esterson London Material below is extracted from press release on the NSPCC UK prevalence study on physical and sexual abuse

Children killed by parents

2001-12-30 Thread Allen Esterson
Do the statistics cited on children killed by parents distinguish between biological parents and step-parents? Allen Esterson London Tasha Howe wrote: The truth is ... 2000 children per year are SUBSTANTIATED as killed by parents. Jim Clark replied: Tasha goes on to state in her posting: '2000

Re: Any stock advice?

2002-01-14 Thread Allen Esterson
wheeled out by a broadsheet newspaper or BBC radio news magazine programmes to provide insights of this nature. BBC journalists typically treat the utterances of such people with the kind of deference they would never accord to politicians or economists. Allen Esterson London --- You are currently

Re: Writings by Mental Patients and Others

2002-01-27 Thread Allen Esterson
that undermine Foucault's psychiatric narrative in relation to France. Allen Esterson London --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Freud, genital mutilation, and human trash

2002-02-06 Thread Allen Esterson
, are worthless (*Letters of Sigmund Freud, 1873-1939*, ed. Ernst Freud, Hogarth, p. 390). Allen Esterson London --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: checking out SiggieSigmund Freud site

2002-02-19 Thread Allen Esterson
states and needs. Allen Esterson London www.human-nature.com/esterson/index.html Not a fan of the old dude, but he's a compelling study, nonetheless Jim Guinee --- Forwarded message follows --- Sigmund Freud: Conflict Culture http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/freud/ Sigmund Freud

Re: Freudian Defense mechanism

2002-02-22 Thread Allen Esterson
feelings, and any frustration or disappointment in one direction is apt to drive him over into the other (SE 12, p. 46). Well, that should cover everything... Allen Esterson London www.human-nature.com/esterson/index.html References: Esterson, A. (1993). *Seductive Mirage: An Exploration

Re: Freudian Defense Mechanism

2002-02-23 Thread Allen Esterson
A correction to my reference in my previous message: Garelli, J. C. Evolutionary Considerations Regarding the Adaptive Status of Depression Allen Esterson London --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: galvanic skin response

2002-02-24 Thread Allen Esterson
socially constructed. Is there any situation (outside the context of languages) where the word gender could not be replaced by sex without the meaning being absolutely clear? Allen Esterson London www.human-nature.com/esterson/index.html --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: tips digest: February 23, 2002

2002-02-25 Thread Allen Esterson
the psychoanalytic explanations typically found in Freud and other psychoanalytic literature have any degree of empirical warrant and/or provide accounts which live up to the standard of good humanistic explanations. That is something we are obviously not going to agree on. Allen Esterson London www.human

Freud and molestation

2002-03-07 Thread Allen Esterson
in general, as a form of abuse *in its widest sense*, ie, severely detrimental to patients or clients. In his book *Against Therapy* Masson also writes about psychotherapists who sexually and physically abused patients, but this has no connection with Freud. Allen Esterson London www.human-nature.com

Re: More biology and crime, also parenting

2002-09-26 Thread Allen Esterson
Endnote 47 for Chapter 18 he would have found references to the supporting data.) Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London N.B. Boffin is not a British insult, as Stephen suggests, but an old-fashioned term for a research scientist (usually seen smoking a pipe

Re: tips digest: October 15, 2002

2002-10-17 Thread Allen Esterson
into a straightforward sexual desire [for his mother]”. But have pity on the poor Wolf Man, who was unfortunate enough to have developed a negative Oedipus complex in early childhood, resulting in his having “a wish to be copulated with by his father”. No wonder he got depressed. Allen Esterson Former lecturer

RE: TV alert: Phineas on the tube

2002-10-19 Thread Allen Esterson
For everything you might want to know about Phineas Cage, and a whole lot more, there’s a recent book on the subject: An Odd Kind of Fame : Stories of Phineas Gage by Malcolm Macmillan (MIT Press) Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Dept Southwark College, London [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.human

Re: Freud questions

2002-10-24 Thread Allen Esterson
were the principal ideas in that book? In “Moses and Monotheism” Freud argued that Moses was not a Jew, he was an Egyptian prince who took over the leadership of a Semitic tribe and forced on them a monotheistic religion, one that had its origins in the religion of the pharaoh Akhenaten. Allen

Hypnosis, Breuer, and Freud

2002-10-24 Thread Allen Esterson
of the unconscious motivations for Freud’s ideas and behaviour can be taken with a pinch of salt according to one’s taste.) Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Dept Southwark College, London [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.human-nature.com/esterson/index.html References: Borch-Jacobsen, M. (1996

RE: movies

2002-10-12 Thread Allen Esterson
://bostonreview.mit.edu/BR22.3/stone.html Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London www.human-nature.com/esterson/index.html --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: tips digest: October 15, 2002

2002-10-17 Thread Allen Esterson
of the (supposed) outrage which greeted his seduction theory claims is decisively refuted in my article “The Myth of Freud’s Ostracism by the Medical Community in 1896-1905: Jeffrey Masson’s Assault on Truth”, History of Psychology, 2002, vol. 5 (2), pp. 115-134. Allen Esterson Former lecturer

Re: Hypnosis, Breuer, and Freud

2002-10-26 Thread Allen Esterson
. 200). Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Dept Southwark College, London [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.human-nature.com/esterson/index.html References. Cioffi, F. (1998). Freud and the Question of Pseudoscience. Chicago and La Salle: Open Court. Crews, F.C. (1998) (ed.) Unauthorized Freud: Doubters

Re: Teachers without Textbooks

2002-11-01 Thread Allen Esterson
who writes from a specific perspective, with a particular aim in mind in relation to it, is more likely to select and interpret material to be in accord with that perspective. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Dept Southwark College, London [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.human-nature.com/esterson

Re: What Freud got right (NOT!)

2002-11-08 Thread Allen Esterson
were to be replaced by something new, Solms will be the first to tell us that this still shows that “Freud was right”. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Dept Southwark College, London [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.human-nature.com/esterson/index.html --- You are currently subscribed to tips

Re: More support for Freud

2002-11-08 Thread Allen Esterson
patients were women, and that his analytic technique for accessing the contents of the Unconscious was gender-neutral. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Dept Southwark College, London [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.human-nature.com/esterson/index.html --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL

RE: Kohlberg, etc.

2002-11-26 Thread Allen Esterson
at the root of their symptoms, thereby curing them, is little better than an academic fairy story (Freud 1910, pp. 22-28; Webster 1996, pp. 136-167). Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Dept Southwark College, London [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.human-nature.com/esterson/index.html References Altschuler, M

RE: RE: Nonwestern courses

2002-11-26 Thread Allen Esterson
of a discipline that seems to be confined to the Eurocentric models…[emphasis added] That’s a mighty big assumption! It was knocked on the head some time ago, as Steven Pinker has eloquently demonstrated. Reference Pinker, S. (2002). The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature. Penguin Press. Allen

RE: Young Dr. Freud

2002-11-29 Thread Allen Esterson
on Freud’s early psychoanalytic career should have been. I will be happy to supply full references for everything I have written above should anyone require them. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Dept Southwark College, London [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.human-nature.com/esterson/index.html Selected

Re: Young Dr. Freud on PBS

2002-12-02 Thread Allen Esterson
taking part? Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Dept Southwark College, London [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.human-nature.com/esterson/index.html --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Young Dr Freud

2002-12-03 Thread Allen Esterson
should produce unconscious phantasies of *sexual seduction* to conceal from themselves that they had masturbated in infancy remains a mystery, but what the hell, it’s the great Freud telling us what he has uncovered in the Unconscious of some of his patients, so who are we to cavil about it? Allen

Re: Young Dr Freud

2002-12-03 Thread Allen Esterson
think I haven’t! It has taken a long time, and much discussion with colleagues, to try and sort out what actually happened through the twists and turns of Freud’s several inconsistent accounts, in which so much is not what it seems. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Dept Southwark College

Re: Freud, Drugs and Victoria...

2003-03-27 Thread Allen Esterson
available on-line at: http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/Library/studies/cu/CU35.html Of course we haven't heard from Allen Esterson for a while but if he's still around, perhaps he'll contribute some other, less well-known sources for further contemplation. Yoo-hoo, Allen! I can’t help much

Re: Refrigerator mothers

2003-06-05 Thread Allen Esterson
, as Christopher misleadingly implies. This is not something I would ever advocate, except in the most recalcitrant cases. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email

Refrigerator mothers

2003-06-05 Thread Allen Esterson
them in the refrigerator for short periods until they had “cooled down”, and that they could be cured by supplying the emotional “warmth” that they had been deprived of? Or is that a garbled account I read somewhere on the internet... Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark

Re: Tips on Tipping

2003-08-14 Thread Allen Esterson
of what waiters and waitresses ended up with came from tips. To what extent that remains the case I couldn’t say. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.human-nature.com/esterson/index.html www.butterfliesandwheels.com/articleprint.php

IQ

2003-08-26 Thread Allen Esterson
numerous responses, at: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/ Type IQ in “search this site” box under “Archive” at the top of page. “Boys are still top dogs” 22 August “Sex and intelligence” 26 August Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.human

Multiple intelligences

2003-08-27 Thread Allen Esterson
.) Over to you, Christopher (and others)! Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.human-nature.com/esterson/index.html www.butterfliesandwheels.com/articleprint.php?num=10 --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: IQ

2003-08-27 Thread Allen Esterson
of the more widespread general use (I think) of IQ tests in the United States, they are viewed with considerable scepticism in most of the non-scientific academy and the media. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.human-nature.com/esterson

Re: Elizabeth Loftus departure from UW

2003-08-28 Thread Allen Esterson
.” Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.human-nature.com/esterson/index.html www.butterfliesandwheels.com/articleprint.php?num=10 --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL

Re: Multiple intelligences

2003-08-28 Thread Allen Esterson
Louis, I can forgive your typographical error in the name of one of England’s supreme novelists, but getting the England soccer captain’s name wrong is just too much to take. Allen --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL

Bias in IQ tests

2003-08-29 Thread Allen Esterson
studies-based discussion of this issue, see the sections on the influence of rearing environments and of social class on IQ in: Rowe, David C. (1994), *The Limits of Family Influence: Genes, Experience and Behavior*, pp.105-114, 145-161. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark

Re: Multiple intelligences

2003-08-29 Thread Allen Esterson
through a detailed analysis of the concept of intelligence as used in psychological fields at some time in the past). But when you post statements like the one quoted above as if it is something that we are not sufficiently aware of, I think it is time to let the subject go. Allen Esterson Former

RE: IQ

2003-08-29 Thread Allen Esterson
in the struggle between classes, then the universities are weapons factories, and their teaching and research faculties are the engineers. designers, and production workers.” (From New Scientist, 24 January 1985) Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: tips digest: August 28, 2003

2003-08-30 Thread Allen Esterson
, literature and debates. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.human-nature.com/esterson/index.html www.butterfliesandwheels.com/articleprint.php?num=10 Herb Coleman wrote: …… When Allen says Gardner should be using the right words

Re: Freud's psychosexual theories

2003-08-30 Thread Allen Esterson
Stephen Black wrote: On 28 Aug 2003, Allen Esterson raised the following provocative question: So how come that although most of Freud’s early patients were women, his theory of psychosexual development was male-based? I have my own explanation for this, but I’d be interested to hear

Re: Freud's psychosexual theories

2003-09-01 Thread Allen Esterson
then write that girls had “analogous” experiences. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.human-nature.com/esterson/index.html www.butterfliesandwheels.com/articleprint.php?num=10 References Crews, F. (ed.) (1998). *Unauthorized Freud

Re: Multiple intelligences

2003-09-01 Thread Allen Esterson
. But don't expect another response (from me at least). Ping-pong is an enjoyable game, but gets tedious if it goes on too long. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.human-nature.com/esterson/index.html www.butterfliesandwheels.com

Re: Recovered memories

2003-09-10 Thread Allen Esterson
you raised – and a warning not to take Westen’s contentions as generally accepted, however confidently he presents them. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.human-nature.com/esterson/index.html http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com

RE: pursuit of power vs. religion

2003-09-11 Thread Allen Esterson
as organised slavery was widely practised in Africa before the European colonisers arrived and vastly extended its scope.) Nor were the Aztecs in Central America living in peace and harmony with their neighbours prior to the arrival of the Spaniards. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department

RE: Freud and humanity

2003-09-11 Thread Allen Esterson
) between the English and the Scots, Spanish and Portuguese, and so on, but fails to mention one exception to the rule, the love between Canadians and United States citizens. :-) ] Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.human

Re: pursuit of power vs. religion

2003-09-11 Thread Allen Esterson
Linda Woolf wrote: Allen Esterson wrote I agree with Herb that it is absurd to put so many between-group conflicts down to religious differences, but the notion that tribes in Africa tended to live peacefully together until the advent of colonialism is no more the case than that native

Re: tips digest: September 11, 2003

2003-09-13 Thread Allen Esterson
” button I realised that I had misleadingly implied that you had suggested that African tribes were all peaceful prior to colonialisation. Allen Esterson --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Recovered memories

2003-09-13 Thread Allen Esterson
. 43-48.) Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.human-nature.com/esterson/index.html http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/articleprint.php?num=10 --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send

Re: Recovered memories

2003-09-14 Thread Allen Esterson
in the first place. None of this is to say that a population’s attitude to shameful *contemporary* (or near-contemporary) events does not frequently follow the pattern described by Nancy. Allen Esterson --- Selected messages “RE Recovered memories” Dave Lieberman wrote: Stephen Black

Re: Recovered memories

2003-09-15 Thread Allen Esterson
respond with something quite to the contrary Annette Quoting Allen Esterson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ---1063463244 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 9/13/2003 7:20:15 AM Pacific Daylight Time

Freud on repression and ego-psychology

2003-09-15 Thread Allen Esterson
, you would undoubtedly suffer from a negative transference, and your views would have to be discounted.) Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.human-nature.com/esterson/index.html http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/articleprint.php

Re: Recovered memories

2003-09-16 Thread Allen Esterson
not sure that I *want* to be on the “same page” as him. Some of my reasons are spelled out in a forthcoming article “Freud’s Theories of Repression and Memory: A Critique of Mollon’s *Freud and False Memory Syndrome*”, to be published in the journal “Scientific Review of Mental Health Practice”. Allen

Re: Canadians and Americans should be friends (was: Freud and humanity)

2003-09-22 Thread Allen Esterson
they pronounce Ai-dolf Hitler. By the way, do *all* Americans say ‘Eye-raq’ and ‘Ai-dolf’? Allen Esterson A bit late for this remark and peripheral to the main point of Allen's post, but what the heck: On 11 Sep 2003, Allen Esterson wrote: Rod, you may find of particular interest Freud=92s

Re: Canadians and Americans should be friends (was: Freud and humanity)

2003-09-22 Thread Allen Esterson
still presenting controversial material as if it were unproblematic many years after it has been challenged. See: http://www.astraeasweb.net/plural/spiegel.html Who would have thought that a movie would give a misleading impression of a psychiatric case? :-) Allen Esterson Former lecturer

Freud's theories and clinical claims

2003-09-23 Thread Allen Esterson
. (1953-1974). *The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud*. London: Hogarth Press. Sulloway, F. (1992 [1979]). *Freud: Biologist of the Mind*. New York: Basic Books. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: Teaser: May I have the envelope please?

2003-11-26 Thread Allen Esterson
is, of course, that searching for “Karl Marx” or “Sigmund Freud” gives too few hits (because famous names like these may simply be cited as Marx or Freud), while searching for Marx or Freud gives too many (for the reason Marc notes). Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College

Re: History of Psychology project

2003-12-13 Thread Allen Esterson
.” (Simon, 1983, p. 26). ‘Nuff said! Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.human-nature.com/esterson/index.html http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/articleprint.php?num=10 Reference Simon, R. (1983). “Still Laing after all

Re: History of Psychology

2003-12-16 Thread Allen Esterson
-410 (British ed.). Lehrer, R. (1995). *Nietzsche’s Presence in Freud’s Life and Work: The Origins of a Psychology of Dynamic Unconscious Mental Functioning*. State Univ. of NY Press. Magee, B. (1983). *The Philosopy of Schopenhauer*, OUP, pp. 132-3, 283-5. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science

Re: Article on sexual orientation

2003-12-19 Thread Allen Esterson
Isra¨ls, H. [1993], “Freud and the Vulture”, History of Psychiatry, 4, pp. 577-586.) Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.human-nature.com/esterson/index.html http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/articleprint.php?num=10 --- You

Re: Article on sexual orientation

2003-12-20 Thread Allen Esterson
] Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.human-nature.com/esterson/index.html http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/articleprint.php?num=10 --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank

Re: Article on sexual orientation

2003-12-20 Thread Allen Esterson
…that [Leonardo] once happened to read…the statement that all vultures were females and could reproduce their kind without any assistance from a male” (a fable dating from the ancient Egyptians). The rest is his-story… Allen Esterson --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED

******mas Greetings

2003-12-22 Thread Allen Esterson
/printFriendly/0,,1-152-937413,00.html Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.human-nature.com/esterson/index.html http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/articleprint.php?num=10 --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL

Re: ******mas Greetings

2003-12-22 Thread Allen Esterson
And for completeness, here's the second London Times piece, an occasional article by the paper's classical music correspondent. God save our merry, gentlemen Richard Morrison As the notion of Christmas itself as a Christian festival is all but expunged, I do grieve for our ever-receding heritage

Re: ******mas Greetings

2003-12-22 Thread Allen Esterson
mention of Bacchus as offensive to the anorexic, obese and alcoholic communities. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.human-nature.com/esterson/index.html http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/articleprint.php?num=10 --- You

Re: ******mas Greetings

2003-12-23 Thread Allen Esterson
closest friends before she gets going on the others. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.human-nature.com/esterson/index.html http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/articleprint.php?num=10 --- You are currently subscribed to tips

Re: ******mas Greetings

2003-12-23 Thread Allen Esterson
it should have been. If so, my apologies, Allen. It wasn't directed at you. Apology accepted, though I didn’t take it as such! I thought it was directed at Mr Morrison. I was replying on his behalf :-) Greetings for the holiday season to all and sundry. Allen Esterson --- You are currently

Re: MRIs in Stanford experiments indicate active suppression of unneeded memories

2004-01-10 Thread Allen Esterson
lurking in them somewhere and has consequences even thought they don’t know why in terms of their attitudes and relationships” (Gabrieli, op. cit.) is going well beyond the evidence. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.human

Re: MRIs in Stanford experiments indicate active suppression of unneeded memories

2004-01-10 Thread Allen Esterson
There are two aspects to this discussion, the Stanford experiments themselves, and the associating of the experiments with Freud and his notions on repression. I’m not clear quite what the experiment is supposed to have proved. That “people are capable of [consciously] repeatedly blocking

Synchronicity

2004-01-24 Thread Allen Esterson
Pleat at: http://twm.co.nz/ISSS_synchr.html If any TIPSter can understand it, please enlighten me. For a sceptical view of synchronicity, see Robert Todd Carroll: http://skepdic.com/jung.html Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: Synchronicity

2004-01-27 Thread Allen Esterson
normally class as science for his explanations of notions like the acausal connecting principle. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.human-nature.com/esterson/index.html http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/articleprint.php?num=10

RE: Prisoners of Cold

2004-01-29 Thread Allen Esterson
I looked out of my window this morning I saw at least a cm of snow on the ground. And this bitter weather is set to last for at least two days!! Allen Esterson --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Prisoners of Cold

2004-01-30 Thread Allen Esterson
that if they visit Wales they should take a large umbrella. Allen Stephen Black wrote: On 29 Jan 2004, Allen Esterson wrote: Anyway, spare a thought for us Londoners. As the newspapers have been warning us for days, =93Arctic weather=94 has hit Britain. Temperatures = in the capital have been

Cheesy

2004-02-05 Thread Allen Esterson
Paul Smith wrote on TIPS: Surely no-one believes that a cheesy halftime show is bringing in an audience of eyeballs for the commercials Oh, yeah! Was it J. L. (?) Mencken who said that no one ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the American public? I hasten to add that some

Dreaming

2004-02-09 Thread Allen Esterson
/pubinfo/dreamsrelease.htm http://www.exn.ca/Stories/1999/11/02/54.asp Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.human-nature.com/esterson/index.html http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/articleprint.php?num=10 --- You are currently

Re: Q about Theodor Reik

2004-02-10 Thread Allen Esterson
of a schoolboy. Reik's writings, however, became raconteurish, although he did much to spread many central parts of Freud's psychology - such as the importance of masochism in psychoanalytic theory. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: Oral sex and Freud

2004-02-12 Thread Allen Esterson
is that of a nipple, but whose shape and position under the belly make it resemble a penis, the preliminary stage has been reached which will later enable [her] to form the repellent sexual phantasy.” (1910, SE 11, p. 86-87) Make of that what you will! Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science

Re: Death of a great therapist, Jack Temple

2004-02-20 Thread Allen Esterson
man. I rectify this shameful lapse by posting his obituary below which describes an extraordinary life in the service of others. I thank Allen Esterson for drawing his demise to my attention. I’m ashamed to admit that I, too, was unaware of the remarkable achievements of Jack Temple whose

Re: Death of a great therapist, Jack Temple

2004-02-21 Thread Allen Esterson
Paul Smith wrote: RE: Death of a great therapist, Jack Temple, Tim Shearon [aka Allen Esterson] wrote: However, Cherie [Blair] Booth does not have this excuse. On the contrary she is a prestigious, highly paid, human rights lawyer. So how does one account for her belief in the healing

Re: Death of a great therapist, Jack Temple

2004-02-21 Thread Allen Esterson
wasteland that is sometimes portrayed. Recognition of the power of suggestion and imagination to produce somatic effects was not an achievement of the late nineteenth century. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London [EMAIL PROTECTED] Excerpt from *Extraordinary

Re: Don't Call Me Mister

2004-02-24 Thread Allen Esterson
1800s, then again in the late 1800s (Charcot, Bernheim, et al). Yet European and American society has had to go through it all again as if exactly the same issues had never been thrashed out a century and more ago! Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London [EMAIL

Re: website request

2004-02-24 Thread Allen Esterson
“Saved by the bell”! Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Hypnosis and suggestion

2004-02-25 Thread Allen Esterson
Mesmer in the 18th century through Braid’s pioneering investigations of hypnosis to the late nineteenth century debates on hypnosis and suggestion. Reference: Malcolm Macmillan (1997), *Freud Evaluated: The Completed Arc*, The MIT Press. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark

Re: Hypnosis and suggestion

2004-02-27 Thread Allen Esterson
Beth wrote: No need to go the out-of-print-books route. Mackay's Extraordinary Popular Delusions is available at Barnes and Noble online, hardcover, for $4.95. (bn.com) I got mine about a year ago. I'd read that it was the favorite book of somebody famous (besides Allen Esterson

Re: Kitty Genovese revisited

2004-03-03 Thread Allen Esterson
the site and give us your views. I know very little about the incident, and would be interested to know what people think about the points made there. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.human-nature.com/esterson/index.html http

Re: Didn't see it coming

2004-03-03 Thread Allen Esterson
of masses of people gabbling into their mobiles in a packed (or half-empty, come to that) tube carriage is the stuff of nightmares. I await the cases of cell-phone rage as instruments are torn from the grasp of users and smashed on the ground -- or worse. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department

Kamin

2004-03-04 Thread Allen Esterson
was an attack on the research related to heritability of schizophrenia--parallel to some of his work in the area of intelligence. Mike, do you have any more information about Kamin’s views on schizophrenia? Did he publish anything on the subject, to your knowledge? Allen Esterson Former lecturer

RE: Echoes of Leon Kamin

2004-03-04 Thread Allen Esterson
that Einstein was backward in his early years. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.human-nature.com/esterson/index.html http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/articleprint.php?num=10 --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL

Re: help finding a statistic...

2004-03-04 Thread Allen Esterson
of dubious surveys.) Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.human-nature.com/esterson/index.html http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/articleprint.php?num=10 --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe

RE: Echoes of Leon Kamin

2004-03-05 Thread Allen Esterson
Allen Esterson wrote: ...[Einstein] was not a very diligent student...tending to neglect his college work to follow up his own interests at home, e.g., the electromagnet theories of Clark Maxwell that were to have a great influence on his development of Special Relativity a few years later

Re: Kamin

2004-03-05 Thread Allen Esterson
Jim Dougan wrote: Mike, do you have any more information about Kamin's views on schizophrenia? Did he publish anything on the subject, to your knowledge? Allen Esterson Kamin co-authored a book called Not in our Genes - If I remember correctly, the authorship goes Lewontin, Rose, and Kamin

Re: Kamin

2004-03-05 Thread Allen Esterson
devious fiends built the Gulag behind Stalin’s back.) Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.human-nature.com/esterson/index.html http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/articleprint.php?num=10 --- You are currently subscribed to tips

Re: poor test-Makers?

2004-03-10 Thread Allen Esterson
, e.g., statistical analysis. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.human-nature.com/esterson/index.html http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/articleprint.php?num=10 Subject: poor test-Makers? From: Herb Coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date

RE: Freud query

2004-03-10 Thread Allen Esterson
with his views on hysteria. He idolized Charcot as a teacher, and admired his openness to new ideas. All true, but Charcot was never a friend of Freud’s, and they were directly acquainted only for a very short period. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London

Re: Freud query

2004-03-11 Thread Allen Esterson
distortions? See Crews, F. (ed.), *Unauthorized Freud*, pp. 260-276, for an account of the extraordinary Frink episode.) Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.human-nature.com/esterson/index.html http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com

Re: Motivation Examples

2004-03-11 Thread Allen Esterson
marriage I can’t afford a carriage But you’ll look sweet Upon the seat Of a bicycle made for two. Ah, they don’t write them like that any more. Allen Esterson --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Freud query

2004-03-11 Thread Allen Esterson
is - or maybe the Bible in this instance). Allen Esterson --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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