I looked at the accompanying essay, and I will readily agree that it was an attractive, upbeat display, in a semi pictorial format, of many of the major currents, theories and head honchos of the head-shrinking business.
For example it listed as one of psych's theories, psychoanalysis (sometimes termed psychodynamics) and it listed as two of psych's theorists Freud and Erikson.
I guess I have a problem with lists (There is a term for the tendency, in education and training, which relies on lists. I think I heard someone say it was derivative of "power point" or some other program.
Lists don't show you relationships. For example, these lists did not indicate that Freud was the progenitor of psychoanalysis, that Erikson was a follower of Freud, and that Jung, Binswanger and many others posited alternative theories of psychoanalysis. But I don't want to be so critical. That's how everything is taught nowadays, with what I think are called "bullets," which are supposedly seminal, critical things. However, if one does not adequately define these important things, and how they relate to other things in the field, these bullets are of limited utility.
Most of the stuff on your newsletter is uncommonly good.
I looked at the accompanying essay, and I will readily agree that it was an attractive, upbeat display, in a semi pictorial format, of many of the major currents, theories and head honchos of the head-shrinking business.
For example it listed as one of psych's theories, psychoanalysis (sometimes termed psychodynamics) and it listed as two of psych's theorists Freud and Erikson.
I guess I have a problem with lists (There is a term for the tendency, in education and training, which relies on lists. I think I heard someone say it was derivative of "power point" or some other program.
Lists don't show you relationships. For example, these lists did not indicate that Freud was the progenitor of psychoanalysis, that Erikson was a follower of Freud, and that Jung, Binswanger and many others posited alternative theories of psychoanalysis. But I don't want to be so critical. That's how everything is taught nowadays, with what I think are called "bullets," which are supposedly seminal, critical things. However, if one does not adequately define these important things, and how they relate to other things in the field, these bullets are of limited utility.
Most of the stuff on your newsletter is uncommonly good.