What if is your favorite movie?

Poid said:

Kickle said:

Hopes are to retain as much of the original characteristics of such an individual as possible.

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Why? 

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Time and money are big considerations.
If you're changing the whole person, you're not being very efficient.
If you can simply isolate what is causing the problem and change that, it's going to be a lot quicker.

Poid said:

Kickle said:

You don't want to rewrite the person to make them fit into a mold, you want to provide them with skills that lessen suffering or at least allow them to function within the society.

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This isn't the experience described by many people I've talked to who have visited psychologists and/or psychiatrists.

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I have a whole list of comments that I could put out, but without knowing their individual experiences I'd just be listing off common issues within the field. Most of which are not solely the responsibility of the psychologist, but also of the consumer. Where there is a market, there will be cons. Dr. Frank's homeopathic spray will cure your arthritis, after all. If someone bitched when their arthritis remained, would you blame the medical profession?

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Falsifiability (or refutability) is the logical possibility that an assertion can be shown false by an observation or a physical experiment. That something is "falsifiable" does not mean it is false; rather, that if it is false, then this can be shown by observation or experiment. Falsifiability is an important concept in science and the philosophy of science. The term "testability" is related but more specific; it means that an assertion can be falsified through experimentation alone.

The term was made popular by Karl Popper. Popper asserted that a hypothesis, proposition, or theory is scientific only if it is falsifiable.

For example, "all men are mortal" is unfalsifiable, since no finite amount of observation could ever demonstrate its falsehood: that one or more men can live forever. "All men are immortal," by contrast, is falsifiable, by the presentation of just one dead man. Not all statements that are falsifiable in principle are falsifiable in practice. For example, "it will be raining here in one million years" is theoretically falsifiable, but not practical.

Popper stressed that unfalsifiable statements are still very important for science and are often contained in scientific theories as unfalsifiable consequences. For example, while "all men are mortal" is unfalsifiable, it is still contained as a consequence of the falsifiable theory that "every man dies before he reaches the age of 150 years". Similarly, the ancient metaphysical idea of the existence of atoms has led to corresponding falsifiable modern theories. Popper invented the notion of metaphysical research programs to name such ideas.

In contrast to Positivism, which held that statements are senseless if they cannot be verified or falsified, Popper denied that falsifiability somehow makes scientific theories special. According to Popper, falsifiability is merely a special case of the much more general notion of criticizability, even though he admitted that falsification is one of the most effective methods by which theories can be criticized.

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elementswrath said:

if it can't be proven, then it's a belief.

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Yeah, a delusional one.

elementswrath said:

settings,places,occurrences, times.

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elementswrath said:

the bible has some rationality.

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