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Re: the brain » zeugma

Posted by alexandra_k on September 20, 2006, at 21:08:08

In reply to Re: the brain » alexandra_k, posted by zeugma on September 20, 2006, at 16:00:31

((((z)))) i've missed you!

> 'Psychotherapy is none other than delicate psychosurgery and psychosurgery is none other than crude psychotherapy'

> whoever wrote this must have been a psychotherapist

He says in the preface that he wrote it while training to be a psychiatrist. I think he studied analytic philosophy first because he uses terminology appropriately in places ;-)

> those value-laden adjectives spoil the analogy for me

aw.
can you think of non value-laden replacements?

 

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