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Monday, September 18, 2006

I'm Baaaack...

Eventhough music is a huge part of my life, I am not studying music or anything relevant to music. I am studying biology and psychology. Since an early age, I have been very interested in psychology. In my psychology class today, the professor was discussing Sigmund Freud's theories. As a physician, Sigmund Freud had many women patients who went to his office complaning about hearing loss, inability to speak, abdominal pain, hallucination etc. This women were apparently experiencing what today is known as mimesis. They were experiencing many symptons but in reality nothing was wrong with them. However, Freud continued his investigation with the women and after evaluating them using the electrical stimulation of the scalp method, he concluded that many had early inappropriate sex with a member of their families. This conclusion as well as many others are criticized as Freud only had data, he did not have enough evidence to back up his theories. Eventhough, he does not present his theories with enough evidence, his writings and theories are very interesting. If any of you are interested in psychology, I highly recommend Origin and Development of Psycho-Analysis and Interpretation of Dreams.

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