From: maputto-AT-saunalahti.fi Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 12:23:31 +0200 (EET) Subject: Re: Re[2]: BHA: Voloshinov etc Hi Tobin, and all, > Tobin: > But for all that, I think language and imagery are tremendously important to psychological activities, and as I pointed out in another discussion, some versions of "talk therapy" (such as cognitive behavioral therapy) are known to be effective treatments for a significant portion of patients with depression or bipolar disorders. On the other hand, I don't think that depth psychology's concept of stratification by itself nominates Freudian psychoanalysis as a CR methodology (I'm very skeptical). And I do agree that a lot of Lit-Crit types are glued to Freudian ideas and are > completely ignorant of more recent research. But that has a lot to do with their commitment to the linguistic fallacy. > I'll agree with all that Tobin says here, when taking his notion about language and imagery in very loose and broad terms. And with an account of more sopihisticated psychological scientific 'tools' of dealing with psychological problems. I work as cognitive behavioural psychotherapist treating people with their psychological problems. All these years I have studied critical realist philosophical issues in TDCR and both of these I consider being generally consistent in my daily practice. I am very keen on following discussions in Bhaskar's list. Sorry, that I do't have much time to contribute these discussions on these topics. My philosophical interest here is how to import and have lay human being and action in these philosophical problems. I think that this dialectisation is not much more got DCR-lines recently. And that is very interesting philosophcial problem, the issue of 'understanding' negation and absence are so problematic in our daily living. regards, Martti Puttonen --- from list bhaskar-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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