TIPSters may be interested in the current issue of "The Scientific Review of Mental Health Practice" (Fall-Winter, 2003, Vol. 2, Number 2), which contains an Editorial with the title: �Eye movement Desensitization and Reprocessing: Ethical Considerations of EMDR Marketing, Training, and Research�.
The journal also contains a Special Section containing half a dozen articles addressing the question: "Is the Pseudoscience Concept Useful for Clinical Psychology?" If you persevere to the end of the journal (pp. 147-162) you�ll find a review article "Freud�s Theories of Repression and Memory: A Critique of *Freud and False Memory Syndrome* by Phil Mollon", author Allen Esterson, the concluding paragraph of which is as follows: "At the end of his concluding remarks on Freud�s theories Mollon writes that although it is over a hundred years since Freud first began writing about psychoanalysis, the study of the mind�s capacity to deceive itself, �still he seems to bother us� (p. 65). Presumably he is suggesting that those who take serious issue with Freudian theories find them disturbing, an echo of Freud�s notorious dictum that �opponents of psychoanalysis� are manifesting �the same resistance which I had to struggle against in individual patients� (Freud, 1933, pp. 137-138). In the context of the subject matter of Mollon�s book, however, the real issue is that Freud�s modern followers are still trying to convince us that his theories of memory and repression constitute a valuable contribution to current explorations of the workings of the mind. Unfortunately, many people who only read the bowdlerised versions of Freud�s theories often presented nowadays are being misled into believing that this is the case." Along the way the author demonstrates that both sides of the "recovered memories" debate hold a view of Freud�s early psychoanalytic clinical experiences (and of his subsequent notions about early memories) that depend on misleading received history rather than on the actual facts insofar as they are revealed by close readings of the relevant documents from the period in question. 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 email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
