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Article: Psychology I.(Brief Article)
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- November 1, 2001
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I did graduate work in counselling psychology--and event worked in that field for a couple of years--before eventually going back to university to pick up my teaching diploma.
Of course I gathered a number of useful insights during my "psychology period," but I remained largely unconvinced (one might say unconverted) by most of what I heard an saw. My dominant recollection is of how fundamental were my differences with the underlying philosophy the assumptions about the meaning and purpose of human life and human happiness--that kept insinuating its way into the classes I took and the counselling sessions I observed.
In a nutshell, psychological ...