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Sorry, had to double post because in some threads I can't edit my posts and add info, but I can only edit the thread title, or so it appears. I've been cool enough not to do that to this thread, otherwise I would've entitled it, "Some moronic psychologist needs classes in statistics."
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Dr. Vitz was on a panel with him and outlined his theory of the defective father to him. Ellis said the theory didn't fit him because he got along with his father. In casual conversation, a friend told Vitz that the theory "fits Ellis perfectly." According to a biography of Ellis, his father abandoned the family and his weak mother was unable to support, so Ellis and his brother ended up providing everyhting for themselves.
I wonder if Gabby has read the actual book or is just enamored over how much he agrees with the review the book has gotten.
I have a suspicion that if we decided to open the discussion up to include the views of those Vitz was studying (Voltaire, Freud, etc) and their views on religion, that his interest in the discussion would evaporate quickly.
Whereas I, coming to my conclusion by pure observance and reason, feel alone and scared of death. I'm not angry at religion, and my dad is a great human being, so there's my contribution to all of this.
Uh, duh. We're Vitards.
There ya' have it.
Second, psychology uses a shitload of statistics. May or may fall into the bullshit realm of making numbers say what you want, but there is a tremendous amount of statistics that go into modern psychology.
Finally, belief in god, gods, or God are psychological in nature. A thought process underlies the choice to believe or not. I wouldn't claim it's wish fulfillment, but it is a reflection of your mental state and fulfills a need in certain people. That's not a knock on people of faith, it's just a fact that we are needs based people. Look at the politics here. Almost everyone here chooses their politics based on what they believe benefits them the most personally.
Modern psychology has made Freud obsolete. Pretty much nothing of freud's is still used, however he changed the way the world viewed psychology and the views were revolutionary at the time, but most are meaningless today.
More or less he's only taught because he got the ball rolling in the field.
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I think Freud was a drug addict and have no idea about his views on why people believe. Pretty much all I know about Freud and his teachings were that he figured everybody wanted to fuck their moms, which frankly I find pretty disgusting.
I arrived at my viewpoint on religion without any external prodding or guidance. I believe what I do, because that's where my thought process brought me to. Since I have no religious beliefs I honestly don't spend any time considering why other believe what they do. Your reason to believe what you do about god is of zero importance to me.
BTW, me and my dad get along great. We were partners in business for nearly 20 years before he retired and he's always, without question, been there to support me in anything I do.
The Theory of ‘Defective Father, which is at it's best a hypothesis has been tested and no relatinship found. However in one of the studies done they did decide that more research could prove that as a minority group atheists could be a target of tons of social stigmas etc.
Freud is an interesting character to study and would make an interesting movie. He was one of the leading advocates for cocaine being a cure-all and one of the major "patients" he used to test the drug on was himself.
As I've stated modern psychology has made Freud's ideas for the most part obsolete. They mainly teach Freud in early psychology classes because he was the forefather of psychology. Not because his ideas necessarily hold, although a few weirdos try and hold on to them.
You believe what you want to believe, and let the next person believe in what they want to believe.
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