I was born in the early 80’s. Most of my introduction to these issues was via 2nd hand accounts from a good friend who was focusing on social issues in her college studies and a lot of the terms freely used today weren’t even allowed on TV and only beginning to take root online in certain circles. However, we’re all on the Internet right now. It’s not so impossible to fit in a bit of reading and research here and there to get a general idea of why psychology has taken this route. I understand where skepticism comes from in weighing new paradigms against the old, but it is better to admit when one doesn’t know everything rather than what some posters here are falling into: A trap of certainty born of ego. Just because one doesn’t understand all the science is not the same thing as it being unscientific.
I was born in the early 80’s. Most of my introduction to these issues was via 2nd hand accounts from a good friend who was focusing on social issues in her college studies and a lot of the terms freely used today weren’t even allowed on TV and only beginning to take root online in certain circles. However, we’re all on the Internet right now. It’s not so impossible to fit in a bit of reading and research here and there to get a general idea of why psychology has taken this route. I understand where skepticism comes from in weighing new paradigms against the old, but it is better to admit when one doesn’t know everything rather than what some posters here are falling into: A trap of certainty born of ego. Just because one doesn’t understand all the science is not the same thing as it being unscientific.