Depends on One's Frame of Reference

• Past Life Regression by Maryann K. Schumm, 5/16/98
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    • Phil's Law by Philip H. Farber, 5/18/98
      
      

There is no question that one could find all kinds of interesting, fascinating, mysterious things in the world. I think, however, the current state of mental health practitioner strategies mandates that we try to have some degree of empirical validation, and not keep on adding layer after layer after layer of supposedly new "effective" treatments. After a while the risk is that everything will look like 'phrenology'. By the way, whether we mean to or not, we practitioners are great at finding evidence that our own particular methods are very successful . Astrologers and phrenologists found plenty of 'evidence' on how effective their particular theories were.

Sagan went to great lengths to talk these problems. The 'do whatever works' philosophy of therapy, sounds warmly individualist and democratic (we are all individuals- so it fits nicely with our cultural biases), but it opens up our so called profession to a bottomless pit of unverifiable attempts at treatmen

• Unframed References by Philip H. Farber, 5/20/98