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Some of my faves: Existential: Rollo May (Man's Search for Himself, The Meaning of Anxiety); Karen Horney (Neurosis and Human Growth). Humanistic: Eri...

https://www.amazon.com/Psychology-Dummies-Adam-Cash/dp/1118603591 I would guess for most people, two or three names or subfields of psychology resonat...

In the US, Kindle has a psychology textbook for free. It's long but it's an easy read. Covers the basics. There really isn't a crash course as it's a ...

Yes. See Behavior Analysis and the concept of replacement behaviors (fulfilling behaviors that are incompatible with the target behavior) - crucial fo...

Thanks for the input, sounds like an interesting book. Welcome to the forum! :smile: As to The Aryan Christ, I would say be sure to check and double-c...

Well said. Sadly, get enough of these Randian corporation-humpers in a room and they do have a fleeting, covenous semblance of legitimacy.

Got it: "The belief in a distinction between positive and negative rights is generally maintained, or emphasized, by libertarians, who believe that po...

Just as I suspected. No argument. Crickets.

Provide your argument for why the right to freedom of association is more fundamental than the right to life, to a living wage, to humane treatment. I...

As always, you didn't answer my question. You just repeated a slogan.

It's a bit boggling. Rand and ilk. Just ew. Are you arguing for human rights now? Freedom of association as a human right? Is that more or less fundam...

That's why we have human rights. To protect everyone. Even stupid cowards. (Not saying you're a stupid coward xtrix :smile: ) Human rights are for the...

What happens when you assume your conclusion. You draw funny rigid senseless lines.

If you know something about it, apart from the guesswork you posted above, I'm all ears. My own research is underway. I'm in grad school for an MSW (t...

Ill-fed people probably have access to food but just don't procure it. C'mon, frank. Be honest. There's a paucity of empathy in that sentiment. If it ...

Ha, thanks

My advice is to use words that can't be interpreted as expressing a paucity of empathy. If you care about empathy, that should be important to you.

If you express a paucity of empathy, I'm justified in calling you sociopathic no matter how much you dislike it.

Can you link me to it?

Is it your argument that there are 17 million children going hungry in the US every day because their caretakers choose not to pick up some groceries ...

Do you think it's that simple?

Not sure why you're invoking the Bible. Not a lot of human rights in Yahweh's eyes. Thank god for Christ.

I agree, the right to life isn't codified. But, to my view - and I consider it a no-brainer (correct me if I'm wrong) - there can be no human rights w...

To my view, because it creates a more connective social experience. It makes my country more civilized and more humane. But I don't have an economic a...

1. The state (in my case, the USA) has undertaken to safeguard some set of human rights 2. These human rights include the right to life 3. Life requir...

From pulling so much bullshit out of its ass?...

Didn't Vatican II ascertain (so let it be written! so let it be done!) that the Holy Ghost has no hands?

Didn't God make that rock five or six threads ago?

:smile: Probably depends on which mind is being spoken.

Another aspect of the break: "All in all, from early on, Jung was nagged by the thought that Freud placed his personal authority above the quest for t...

Right. He confesses as much in the opening pages of Civilization and Its Discontents: no sense of the 'oceanic.' While I love reading Freud for his sp...

I found this to get me started: "I have repeatedly heard it said contemptuously that it is impossible to take a science seriously whose most general c...

Can you tell me where I can read more about Freud's scientism or positivist attitude?

That one isn't. QED.

Gotcha. I know I'll never read his entire oeuvre so I was just curious.

Good to know a self-ban is an option. :smile: But first just give me one more fix.

Yeah, please ban me. I'd get a lot more done. :smile:

I must not be a person, then. Just playing. :smile:

Couldn't you just start a thread on a subject that interests you? It's not a zero-sum game.

Quite the social visionary. This is the self-soothing slogan of the apathetic.

A lot of these good people work directly for the state using the tax dollars you would refuse them if you could. So your statement is pure hypocrisy.

Freud uses the word eros. Which at times meant sexual energy and at other times a general life force or life drive (as opposed to the death drive). Fr...

Looks like you hit the behaviorist wall. Behaviorism - Walden Two - the grotesque result of an art aspiring to be a science. Not to discount the metho...

And so much plain old humanity.

I've read a lot of Freud and I don't recall his saying psychoanalysis is a science.* He changed his mind constantly, he was constantly re-exploring an...

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Nice haiku. I wrote this one in the car in my 20s, 20 years ago, and it still comes back to me. come on across the road little sparrow, I'll al- ways ...