RE: Freudian mythology
Rick Froman has asked me offline some pertinent questions on the teaching of Freud in courses containing sections on psychoanalysis, and I hope Rick doesn't mind my answering them online: I wonder if there is a particular article or post to a list that you have written that you think would act as a good counterpoint to the coverage given to Freud in most intro psych textbooks. The only place Ive written a generalised critique of Freuds writings is in my book *Seductive Mirage*. But I can recommend some articles on the website of Richard Webster, author of *Why Freud Was Wrong*. I dont go along with all Websters views (in particular his attempt to identify Freuds theories as a natural outcome of the Judaeo-Christian tradition). But I can certainly recommend the following web articles (some of which are chapters from *Why Freud Was Wrong*): http://www.richardwebster.net/rediscoveringtheunconscious.html http://www.richardwebster.net/freudandhysteria.html http://www.richardwebster.net/rediscoveringtheunconscious.html http://www.richardwebster.net/freudsfalsememories.html http://www.richardwebster.net/thebewilderedvisionary.html http://www.richardwebster.net/lettingoutthecartesiancat.html Or, alternatively, something that addresses what, if any, lasting impact Freud has had on the field of psychology As the late president of the Peoples Republic of China, Chou en Lai (or however it is spelt nowadays), said when asked whether the French revolution was a success, its too soon too tell. But I think it is clear that since the mid-twentieth century it has diminished considerably, is continuing to diminish, and will diminish further in the future. North Americans should keep in mind that Freudian ideas never had the massive influence on psychology (or general culture) in the UK that it had in the United States. (In particular, psychoanalytic ideas were always just one thread in British psychiatry, rather than the dominating thread that it was for a period in the States.) There are still places where Freuds influence remains strong, most notably in France, where in the last few decades the intellectual classes have largely replaced an infatuation with Marx by one with Freud. Very little of the critical literature on Freud has been published in France, and the first major book critical of Freud that has been published there (largely devoted to reporting the writings of English language Freud scholars), *Mensonges Freudiens: Histoire d'une d¨sinformation s¨culaire*, has been greeted with outrage by some representatives of the French intellectual classes (notably the Lacanian Edith Roudinesco, who has publicly launched a personal attack on the author of the book, Jacques Benesteau). or an explanation of why Freud is given so much ink, even in modern psychology texts even though psychology has parted ways with him for some time now. I think in part this is a legacy of the massive influence Freud had on American psychology for several decades in the second half of the twentieth century. Having covered his ideas so fully (and generally effusively) for so long, it would have been odd if there had been a *sudden* change in the last couple of decades of the century. Authors of new textbooks typically consult earlier textbooks for their information, so misinformation, or indequate material, gets recycled. Nowadays, for instance, the skeleton of Freuds theories of psycho-sexual development are presented, generally in a perfunctory fashion. Often authors do point out that there is no serious evidence to support much of this stuff, though many cite supposed corroborations of this or that Freudian notion by psychoanalytically-based studies, such as those cited in Fisher and Greenfields books which, incidentally, are generally given far too much credence by authors of College psychology texts. (See Edward Erwins *A Final Accounting* [MIT Press, 1996] for an extensive critique of such studies.) Do you feel there is any justification for even historical coverage of his impact in intro psych? How should we treat Freud in Intro (when there is not a lot of time to go into great detail on that topic)? Theres a real problem here, in that many College psychology texts have yet to catch on to the fact that much of the received history of the early days of psychoanalysis is partially, and sometimes almost entirely, false. This is hardly surprising, when pro-Freudians like the neuroscientist Mark Solms have easy access to journals like Scientific American to recycle facts that have been discredited decades ago by historians of psychology and psychoanalysis who researched the original historical documents. And many psychology teachers (and textbook authors) still think that Freuds accounts of his early psychoanalytic experiences in his later writings provide an accurate account of them which is not surprising, as they frequently make compelling reading. (Whatever his shortcomings as a clinician and a
APA style help please
My students are using websites in their final papers because I made the citation and reference list notation of websites an absolute part of the assignment just to get them to learn to use them because I foresee this as a common occurrence in the future and they will need to know how to do this. Now I've created a monster because I have to agree with my students that the guidance for using websites is lacking! We've gone through the APA manual with a fine-toothed comb and think we have figured out the reference part but the part on how to do a citation within the body of the text eludes us completely! How would one cite and reference a website that has no author, just a title to the website and a URL? Thanks Annette --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: APA style help please
Where the APA style requirements are unclear, I tell my students to just use common sense with their citations--keeping in mind that the point is to help the reader locate the original source. If no author for a website can be found, they might use the first part of the title. But whatever is in the text citation should match the alphabetical listing in the reference section. I don't want my students to devote too much time stressing over the format for unusual citations. I would much rather have them put that time and energy into the content of the paper. --Dave Annette Taylor wrote: My students are using websites in their final papers because I made the citation and reference list notation of websites an absolute part of the assignment just to get them to learn to use them because I foresee this as a common occurrence in the future and they will need to know how to do this. Now I've created a monster because I have to agree with my students that the guidance for using websites is lacking! We've gone through the APA manual with a fine-toothed comb and think we have figured out the reference part but the part on how to do a citation within the body of the text eludes us completely! How would one cite and reference a website that has no author, just a title to the website and a URL? Thanks Annette --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- -- ___ David E. Campbell, Ph.D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Psychology Phone: 707-826-3721 Humboldt State University FAX: 707-826-4993 Arcata, CA 95521-8299 www.humboldt.edu/~campbell/psyc.htm --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: APA style help please
Hi Annette, Because of the ever changing nature of the Internet, APA has put up a Web site dealing with formatting of e-references. Go to http://www.apastyle.org/elecgeneral.html. For no author or date, the web site suggests referenceing as follows: 77. Stand-alone document, no author identified, no date GVU's 8th WWW user survey. (n.d.). Retrieved August 8, 2000 from http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/usersurveys/survey1997-10/ If the author of the document is not identified, begin the reference with the title of the document. Thus, I believe in text it would be (GVU's 8th WWW user surver, n.d.). Best, Linda Annette Taylor wrote: My students are using websites in their final papers because I made the citation and reference list notation of websites an absolute part of the assignment just to get them to learn to use them because I foresee this as a common occurrence in the future and they will need to know how to do this. Now I've created a monster because I have to agree with my students that the guidance for using websites is lacking! We've gone through the APA manual with a fine-toothed comb and think we have figured out the reference part but the part on how to do a citation within the body of the text eludes us completely! How would one cite and reference a website that has no author, just a title to the website and a URL? Thanks Annette --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Linda M. Woolf, Ph.D. Secretary, Society for the Teaching of Psychology (Div. 2, APA) Professor of Psychology Coordinator - Holocaust Genocide Studies, Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Webster University 470 East Lockwood St. Louis, MO 63119 Main Webpage: http://www.webster.edu/~woolflm/ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's (and woman's) best friend. . . . Inside a dog, it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Freudian mythology
Correction: I should have written Fisher and Greenberg, (not Greenfield) in the following passage from my previous message in this thread. Nowadays, for instance, the skeleton of Freuds theories of psycho-sexual development are presented, generally in a perfunctory fashion. Often authors do point out that there is no serious evidence to support much of this stuff, though many cite supposed corroborations of this or that Freudian notion by psychoanalytically-based studies, such as those cited in Fisher and Greenfields books which, incidentally, are generally given far too much credence by authors of College psychology texts. (See Edward Erwins *A Final Accounting* [MIT Press, 1996] for an extensive critique of such studies.) Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
