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Most of my psychoanalytic colleagues seemed to assume that all of Freud's ideas were pearls of wisdom. They were as susceptible to being fooled as any who may have been enticed by the jewelry store's newspaper ad offering "genuine faux pearls." Few could comprehend that most of what Freud had said about affects were also "genuine faux pearls" distorting understanding, creating false paths and blind alleys. Why Freud blundered by accepting common wisdom ideas about emotion, erred about emotion as… Continue

1. Conceptual learning is slow, difficult, and not automatic. It is far more difficult than rote learning that calls only for knowing, not for understanding. The steps call for building a body of facts through an integrating process, then individually abstracting meaning for those facts. A process of building knowledge by assembling many facts into a meaningful cluster can allow us to deal with any data that comes to us by using the guidance for understanding in such a frame of reference. That e… Continue

Could the high degree of success in treatment of the classic neuroses be simply ignored? Therapists are, after all, in the business of curing illnesses. Still, a high degree of success in applications could not only be ignored, it could be scoffed at and denigrated. The therapists are in the business of curing, that had to mean they, too, would be interested in any knowledge that could help them cure their patients. Unpredicted restrictions on that general aim of professionals toward ever-better… Continue

It has been thought that the several fields of study related to mental health are a ferment of activity with rapid progress in knowledge that makes the public increasingly better served by increasingly capable professionals. Hogwash! New ideas are not welcomed with open arms despite the popular belief that every professional in every field of study eagerly welcomes advances.With each passing year of exploration, increasing numbers of concepts and implications were added. Need… Continue