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Subject: Helpful vs. Harmful Therapy
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Date: Sun, 16-Mar-86 12:42:48 EST
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Therapy is like debugging the software.  The debugger has to have a clean
copy of the section of code being debugged.  If they don't, the whole
routine will look like noise, and they'll want to replace it with
something more primitive.  I've had quite a few psychologists try to
regress me to a more backward version of the Operating System.  But
I eventually found a teacher who was way ahead of me, and with him I
learned wonderful new concepts in survival strategy.  Axelrod is on to
some good theories.  So is Hofstatder and Smullyan.
--Barry Kort  ...ihnp4!hounx!kort