Posted by lpslpslpslpslpslps on June 5, 2010, at 21:25:43
In reply to Re: Brainstorming alternate treatment options, posted by lpslpslpslpslpslps on June 5, 2010, at 21:13:49
Also, given your insight about the psych med stuff being an avoidance strategy... should I stop trying to keep up with the field? I've almost finished reading Kaplan & Sadock's Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, and the most pleasurable thing I do is acquire more knowledge about things I am fascinated with.
But, if there was a way I could redirect that motivation toward excelling academically and getting essays published, I'd take it in a heartbeat.
Aside from the avoidance thing, I do sometimes wonder if my fascination with the biological psych side of the bio-psycho-social matrix of explanations makes me unconsciously downplay the role of psychological factors, even ones that I am intellectually aware of... or if instead it is because clinical psychology and psychoanalysis are almost jokes scientifically, even if very interesting and often insightful. Often my doctor will point out possible psychological explanations for things I am dealing with, and they sound reasonable to me... but yet I can't stop thinking about neurobiological explanations, or I can't force myself to feel extremely compelled by psychological explanations, even ones that I think are reasonable. It often seems a little too 'spooky' or prescientific for me to take it as seriously as I want to.
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