[jabidas]

Well if you don't cure the addict how are you ever going to get him to pay you for curing him? The problem with therapists is that you do not need any qualification to call yourself a therapist, you just need a piece of paper. Hence you get a lot of complete idiots taking advantage.

A point that I should make at some point is that psychology has nothing to do with that bearded pervert generally known as Freud. We HATE him and his BS untestable, unscientific and just mad theory.

Attributing things to genetics does not give you free will either. It makes everything you do a hardwired response to enviornment. Of course this is part of another giant philisophical debate. I do not think we should say people are genes and their history, for example the greatest figure in american psychology, that is William James, was hugely involved in trying to proove we have free will.

Oh and cure always depends upon what is the societal norm, within limits. The guys who foam at the mouth, bang their heads of the wall and claim they are satan are referred to as insane everywhere. Unless they get burnt at the stake that is.

As for my essay, yeah it was damn good, I was proud. I just wish i could recall what I wrote now.

A book I reccomend to everyone is "The Myth of Mental Illness" by Thomas Szazz. Some of it is plain wrong but he does make some brilliant points so we should look at the. If Psychology is the science of human behaviour like any other science it can be misused. All science is potentially a weapon or a tool of oppression. Its a pity so few scientists have to take a course in ethics. I remember reading Einstein was horrified when he realized what he had discovered. Anyway the missuse of science does not have anything to do with the validity of science.

Just everyone Remember "there are more things in heavan and earth Horation than there are contained in your Philosophy". Or at least it goes something like that, don't blame me I can barely type at this stage.