EMDR FORUM ARCHIVE, 2000
Re:General comment and comment on Point #1
Cahill · 10/28/02 at 6:29 PM ET
We are going in circles here. My point is that clinical experience is an indequate basis for building a reliable knowlege base. Your response is to provide more examples of clinical experience and now "common sense." The problem is that clinical experience and common sense are frequently wrong. Just remember that "clincal experience" brought us facilitated communication, Erwin lenses, laetril (sp), orgone boxes, therapeutic touch, and all sorts of other assorted nonesense. As I noted in one of my posts from a bit earlier today, nobody forced Shapiro to enter the arena of science. But she did so, and my hat is off to her. But science is a rough game where we hold up our ideas to logical analysis and empirical data to weed out the bad ideas and develop better ones. The best place for the role of "clinical experience" falls in the context of discovery, and is best left out of the context of justification.
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