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Article: The science of the mind.(Correspondence)(Letter to the Editor)
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- First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
- Article date:
- June 1, 2005
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It was good to read Paul C. Vitz's article about "psychology in recovery" (March 2005). Important things are going on today in psychology, and the positive psychology movement is a breath of flesh air.
I do take exception, however, to a few of Dr. Vitz's arguments. Are neurosciences really the "hard" sciences Dr. Vitz makes them out to be? From a purely organic point of view, and using the current computer metaphor, scientists do not understand memory, cognition, or the mind. Though the brain might be "harder" than the mind, does Dr. Vitz suggest that the probing and prodding of something tangible like the brain is somehow an improvement?
Dr. Vitz ...