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For a fictional approach to the misuse of psychology, check out THAT HIDEOUS STRENGTH by CS Lewis and CATCH-22 (either book or movie will work). Don't want to be like that....
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The Intermittent One
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joking aside, psychology/psychiatry, in dealing more with people and their minds, is (i believe) harder than sociology, which i find to be incredibly easy, i only need D's to go on to A2, and I think this will be an easy one. Sociology is often termed the dark side, usually by psychology students/lecturers, anyone know why |
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Cool Starr! I was wondering the same thing, although I proably have no reason to care just yet. I'm considering that in my search for a college, if I can get a doctorate degree there. I'm not sure if that even matters though, and it's a very limiting factor so far. I could actually leave "occupation: student" behind for a while after my masters, or continue with education at a different school. I guess I'll figure that out in time, but how many people do go for their PhD right away? LCoU: The dark side? As in evil, unseen, or just different? EDIT: My dad read CS Lewis' Space Trilogy to me when I was little. I recently finished the first installment. (by myself ![]()
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Just wanted to add my best wishes as you continue your studies in psychology.
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Elf Lord
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Elvengirl, why are you against psychology and psychiatry?
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Heh! Well, I am a sociologist ... by training, anyway, and anyone who says it's a 'soft' science will get their ...
![]() .... um ... yeah ![]() ![]() ![]() And as to why sociology is the dark side? That's because of the power of sociology, especially when it really gets going. Because it makes a critique of all the things that we accept and reveals what is or what could be going on behind. So that's what I assume they're meaning, when they say 'dark side'. That, btw, is why a lot of people don't like it too - and why people like Thatcher tried to get it stopped. So, for a dark side for things like psychology and psychiatry ... sociology would suggest that yeah, okay, they have the idea of helping people, but then it'd go on to enquire why that idea exists, what kind of help is given, what is the hidden agenda of the help (ie status for the psychos and psychis, job creation, the social control of the deviant, and so on). It'd also look into the definitions that the psycho studies give, and ask whether they are 'real' defintions ... ie how objective, what reflections are there in them of the contextual society, ie the construction of the deviancy in the first place, and then how affected in their diagnoses and treatments are the practitioners by the context ... It brings up some pretty interesting things, to say the least. And so my stance, from the point of view of a sociologist, is that yeah, these things can help people. And they really do. But they come with another hidden side, and it's as well to be aware of that too. ![]() ![]() Last edited by Hemel : 11-17-2004 at 10:55 AM. |
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BTW, I meant I'm going to be a psychologist. I didn't realize I hadn't made that clear. It's the same major for psychiatrists too.
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