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Guesswork in GobbledygooL The psychologists are worse, torn as they are between gestaltists, behaviorists, functionalists, reflexologists and other -ists. They expend their energies formalizing the obvious ("Although other sensations have various degrees of hedonic tone," says one textbook, "pain is notoriously unpleasant"). But the result of all their efforts, Standen insists, is that they cannot say anything really important about man. "It is possible to go clear through a course in psychology without ever hearing what the various virtues...
Scientific Gobbledygool. The meeting also heard 132 other papers on psychiatry, many of them about the effects of battle on the nervous system, most of them in a kind of scientific gobbledygook ("mal-orientation," "preneurotic interval") very baffling to laymen. Some highlights...
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