EMDR Forum Archive, 1999
Beyond a Helpful Skepticism --
Sandra Paulsen, Ph.D. · 4/30/00 at 4:17 am ET
I can't venture a long response now- but I'll say I am surprised to hear you criticize single-subject experimental designs that have pre and post treatment assays as experimentally unsound-- can only assume you'd be more comfortable with correlational data perhaps. It seems - though I can hardly believe it -- that you take the view that trauma doesn't account for much, or that life events with maladaptive learning outcomes don't account for much. You'd prefer to postulate a biological basis perhaps for most mental disorders? You dismiss the single subject case reports, the controlled studies, the authorities, the clinicians reports, the patients' appreciative reports and those of their families -- all mean little to you. The only thing you seem to consistently value is a contrarian viewpoint. Because you find nothing to agree with, your credibility is diminished. You again distorted my words by saying that I frequently appeal to authority -- no I don't, only rarely. Nearly all of the hours I've spent posting here have been comments or appeals based on logic or my own experience. Once again, though you sign your post "respectfully" you have been disrespectful and distortive in your overgeneralization. I do not have reason to believe that you see your own biases, distortions, systematic errors, fixed beliefs, globalizations, personalizations, etc. Since conversation with you is futile, and your beliefs appear to be rigidly fixed, I conclude that my time is better spent on efforts that can hope to accomplish good results --like administering EMDR for a good example.
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