My biggest issue with this is not what it says(or fails to say) about multiplicity, but rather with the underlying assumption of behaviorism: that for all intents and purposes, people are entirely creations of their environments, reacting as they do because of their experiences, rather than who they are, and that who they are is entirely dependent on their experiences.
It views people as little more than rats in the maze of life, with all of their actions, ideas, emotions, and personality(ies) a mere result of their circumstances and past experiences. Basically that people are, for all intents and purposes, biological robots, whose actions are preprogrammed and predetermined by their environment.
The behaviorist view is also very standardized and sticks to the "scientific model" to the point of excluding any "nonscientific" phenomena such as magic, alternate dimmensions, and even more basica things like the concept of spirits or souls.
I often wish the psychological community would give their investigations of the mind a more holistic and inclusive approach rather than their limited scientific paradygm. I think that if so called "scientists" were more open to broader ideas, issues that many "mentally ill" people face would hold less stigma and possibly even be thought of as "normal" instead of being dismissed as a problem to be solved by forced therapies and medications.
Anyway, I'll end my rant against the psychological community there for the time being.
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Date: 2004-09-30 05:57 pm (UTC)It views people as little more than rats in the maze of life, with all of their actions, ideas, emotions, and personality(ies) a mere result of their circumstances and past experiences. Basically that people are, for all intents and purposes, biological robots, whose actions are preprogrammed and predetermined by their environment.
The behaviorist view is also very standardized and sticks to the "scientific model" to the point of excluding any "nonscientific" phenomena such as magic, alternate dimmensions, and even more basica things like the concept of spirits or souls.
I often wish the psychological community would give their investigations of the mind a more holistic and inclusive approach rather than their limited scientific paradygm. I think that if so called "scientists" were more open to broader ideas, issues that many "mentally ill" people face would hold less stigma and possibly even be thought of as "normal" instead of being dismissed as a problem to be solved by forced therapies and medications.
Anyway, I'll end my rant against the psychological community there for the time being.