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To: lawdog who wrote (23195)	7/8/2000 12:34:50 PM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 769670

I refer to treatment because it is the empirical touchstone of theory. Experimental psychology does not have schools, per se, nor is it eager to forward a grand synthesis, at this point. You are correct enough about the level of controversy, but I was persuaded by an article in The New York Review of Books a couple of years ago that the claims of cure, rather than "making people feel good", were not very great. Anyway, I think that the factors that go into the development of the self are multiple. Ethnicity, family "legend", social status, and even body image all effect it. It matters if one is a New Yorker or a Washingtonian, it matters if one grew up on a farm or a luxury apartment, it matters if one had siblings or was an only child. We have basic drives to seek pleasure and social status, and to make sense out of issues like responsibility and mortality. Within all of this, I think that existentialism deals best with the situation, by acknowledging multiple factors and emphasizing the possibility of transcendence in making sense of one's life and making choices...........