Exact Science

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Just back from the LR and TC and ML are at it again. I recorded it on my tivo.

TC really rails against 'psychiatry' as if that discipline had no cultural relevance whatsoever. In my opinion this is oversimplification based on an overly-rigid definition of 'science.' It is true that Psychology is not an 'exact science' in the sense of, say, Physics, or Astronomy, or Mathematics. That much is true. But there is no doubt whatsoever that Psychology - such as it is in the YOOL 2005 - represents a valid approach to understanding mental processes. 'Psychology' and the subset 'Psychiatry' will eventually be superceded by more modern ideas. But not yet.

I liked his implied distain for 'Freudianism,' however.