File spoon-archives/marxism-psych.archive/marxism-psych_1996/96-12-11.201, message 96


Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 23:44:50 GMT
From: Chris Burford <cburford-AT-gn.apc.org>
Subject: M-PSY: Treating "causes"?


Miles:
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In response to Matt D.'s response I do think that it is necessary to try
and determine more than symptoms to effect their relief. I think it is
necessary to try and discover "cause." Surely that would also effect
treatment. 


Chris B:
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Psychologists have some good treatments for anxiety states, 
that do not depend on identifying the cause. Besides you put
"cause" in inverted commas thereby implying the difficulty
of identifying one single cause in a world in which everything connects
with everything else. Why do you argue this way? 

And if you are going to emphasise certain groups of causes, 
which ones do you think marxists should favour "curing"?








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