Re: Re: Freud and Science

["Charles Brown" <CharlesB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Our proletarian workers of the world organization will have high standards for caring and curing labor.

CB

>>> Michael Perelman <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 12/07/99 12:44PM >>>
Yoshie, send it right away.

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:

> Perhaps e-lists can replace the "talking cure," except that e-list debates
> tend to aggravate neurosis, instead of alleviating it, and in the process
> they end up giving our good moderator Michael Perelman another cause for
> stress!  Send him herbal remedies!  (My mom's recipe is a mix of tea,
> lemon, ginger, and sugar.  Works for sore throat, too.)
>
> Yoshie

I have never known anyone who was cured by talking to a psychiatrist.  Perhaps
that merely reflects my limited experience.

I do have a relative diagnosed as a psychotic.  Medication has stopped her from
hearing voices, but I suspect that chemical psychology is greatly overused --
especially because it is capital-rather than labor-intensive.
--

Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
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