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Can the Human Mind be Measured by the Rules of Science?

1/24/2016

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In his 2015 article Psychology’s Taboo Against Imagination, Stanley Siegel describes how psychology has slowly but steadily over years, shifted away from the use of imagination in interpreting a client’s story and instead relied on diagnosis in order to codify the pathology of the patient.
 
The negative effects of this are that on many occasions persons are labeled with different mental illnesses and the use of indicated medications and their undesirable side effects, sometimes for life.
 
Siegel describes the basis of this practice as the emphasis of current practitioners on “scientism” and “medicalization” and “away from holistic, humanistic, growth-oriented approaches established by such pioneers as Carl Jung, William James, Rollo May, Carl Rogers, and Erich Fromm, who believed the human mind could not be measured by the rules of science”. 
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