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| Socky the Puppet |
 Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2006 6:06 pm |
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I would like comments on how Evolutionary Psychology has changed
psychotherapy, if at all. I ran across some info about EP today and
wondered how this fairly new idea has affected the practice. General
comments are also welcome. My main problems with the science has been
it's roots and EP puts some foundations down that I can work better
with. While this is not the first time I have read some on the
subject, I never got far enough for it really to stick. When
commenting, remember I am a layperson. |
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| Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 11:08 am |
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"Socky the Puppet" <Socky@lalaland.spew> wrote in message
news:uicgp2pfredc01shm9h0gu7ro9p6asqnd7@4ax.com...
Quote: I would like comments on how Evolutionary Psychology has changed
psychotherapy, if at all. I ran across some info about EP today and
wondered how this fairly new idea has affected the practice. General
comments are also welcome. My main problems with the science has been
it's roots and EP puts some foundations down that I can work better
with. While this is not the first time I have read some on the
subject, I never got far enough for it really to stick. When
commenting, remember I am a layperson.
No real effects, and I personally believe that there will be no major
effects.
An analogous methodology is the area of evolutionary oncology. Very
imformative, but it has little effect on treatment of cancer because the
latter uses research that asks "What?" whereas the evolutionary study asks
"Why?"
The same sort of thing is true for psychotherapy research. Evolutionary
psychology, much more than most other areas of psychology research, asks
"Why did this [the 'What'] happen? Why did it become possible for these
problems in emotion, character, personality, develop in the species?"
But psychotherapy deals with what happened in an individual. The evolution
of the mechanism that allows the problems to develop is not directly
relevant.
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