Re: Psychotherapy in science-fiction

From: Damien Broderick (damien@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Tue May 18 1999 - 11:45:00 MDT


At 02:50 AM 18/05/99 -0500, Eli wrote:

>Greg Egan and _Quarantine_ would be the best SF.
>Evolutionary psychology is the best we've got now.

Highly doubtful. It's potentially the best *explanatory* system, in the
broad. But it offers very little of practical benefit, as yet.
Transmitter-modulators and cognitive/emotional discursive methods are not
incredibly effective, but they are the coal-face for intervention.
Speculations about life in the Pleistocene, however engaing and brilliant,
don't help a depressive get out of the trough.

Damien Broderick



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