At least there is truth in advertising: it is the "highlights" not the "unvarnished history." Although all sciences certainly progress through stops and starts (mostly dead ends probably), no textbook (except a history text) will focus on the dead-ends. The singular exception may be the "Journal of Articles in Support of the Null Hypothesis" but even there I believe the idea is that in some cases there really is no effect and the null hypothesis should not be rejected so they are not dead-ends as much as a catalog of results that show no effect.
Rick Dr. Rick Froman, Chair Division of Humanities and Social Sciences John Brown University Siloam Springs, AR 72761 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________ From: Christopher D. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2008 3:06 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] Highlights of American Psychiatry through 1900 - Website Robin Musselman wrote: For those interested in a bit of history: Diseases of the Mind: Highlights of American Psychiatry through 1900 http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/diseases/ This is indeed a very interesting site, though not entirely for the reasons its authors intended. On the one hand, it has some interesting information. One the other, it is conceived and designed in an astonishingly old-fashioned way: great advances, great advocates, great discoveries. No blunders, no crises, no less-than-scrupulous characters, no unpalatable assumptions about race, sex, immigration, etc. Just the Great March Forward. In many ways, it tells us more about the ways psychiatrists would like their profession to be seen by the public, than about the history of psychiatry itself. Regards, Chris -- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada 416-736-2100 ex. 66164 [EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.yorku.ca/christo/ "Part of respecting another person is taking the time to criticise his or her views." - Melissa Lane, in a Guardian obituary for philosopher Peter Lipton ================================= --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
