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In article <63321@mimsy.umd.edu> biow@cs.umd.edu (Christopher Biow) writes:
>In article <1993Jan11.181752.6816@cs.unca.edu> kepley@photon.phys.unca.edu (Brad Kepley) writes:
>
>>>[referring to ritual satanic abuse therapy and its skeptics]
>
>>I think we better be careful that we don't just begin a new witchhunt with
>>the therapists as target.  If these "memories" are not real, the therapist
>>may be unwittingly providing the opportunity for these people to fantasize,
>>but that doesn't necessarily mean they are "causing" the "memories".  
>
>Maybe some sort of hunt is exactly what we need. We have an entire 
>profession offering health-related services without a solid science
>to back them up and without any good evidence to show greater than
>placebo-level effects of their therapy.

I have my doubts about it too, but I'm not really sure I'm qualified
to make the judgement.  I don't think therapy would do *me* any 
good <grin>, but I don't know enough about it to dismiss it completely.
You do need to recognize that even if the therapists are wrong and
bad scientists, most of them (I think) are at least trying to do
their work in a scientific manner.

On the other hand, even though I think Freud's methods have ended
up to be pretty much a waste of time, I still think Freud was a 
valuable thinker and I agree with many of his thoughts.