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The Conundrums of Psychology

By: Sam Vaknin

...it unacceptable if the experiments meet the criteria of the scientific method. The theory must be all-inclusive (anamnetic), consistent, falsifiabl... ...oven that Turing Machines are a private instance of a general, much stronger, class theory (a-la Principia Mathematica). The integration of hardware... ...revealing, insightful, aesthetic, and parsimonious - in short, it must constitute a theory and produce falsifiable predictions. A metaphor is also s... ...– a medical doctor by profession (Neurologist) and Bleuler before him – came with a theory regarding the structure of the mind and its mechanics: (s... ... were – they could not be deemed to possess the redeeming features of a scientific theory. Deciding between the two camps was and is a crucial mat... ... "customized" to the circumstances of each and every patient (client). The user or consumer is incorporated in the resulting narrative as the main ... ...terial of all practices) uses advertising to transform individuals to subjects (=to consumers). It uses advertising to interpellate them. The advert...

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