Re: Who is your favourite psychology guru?


Tony Burch wrote:
Hi all,

I was just pondering the idea of "gurus" & I thought the following questions
may hopefully make some interesting & entertaining discussion:)

Including people in this newsgroup & others in the field, whom do you
consider to be the present-day "gurus" in psychology? ...I mean the people
who guide others, are inspirational & highly respected for their work &
contributions in this field.

Who is your favourite guru & why?

Please take the question in a light-hearted way. Maybe this is just a chance
to honour someone you respect. Maybe some readers will check out your "guru"
and also enjoy them.

Tony Burch

Psychology is a practice that nobody knows about. Why? Because the word
'psychology' does not refer to anything - there are no 'psychological'
facts, nobody knows what sort of object or thing the word refers to. If
we ask 'what is psychology?' then we are simply thrown a lot of
activities and obscure objects described or practiced by certain
medical cults.

Psychology theory is not even bunk. It is simply incoherent. Their
practices are, as Foucault indicates, designed to promote shame and
guilt as a restrainment on socially unacceptable behaviours.

This is why I think the best psychologist is Hitler, although any other
good mind-nazi will do.

.

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