CulturalGeekGirl wrote...
A shocking... shocking amount of psychology is just "let's try this and see if it makes them better. No? Ok, try something else." There are a number of psychologcal dugs in widespread use that we have no real idea how or why they work. It's basically Dr. House on steroids. Did you know that sometimes the only way to determine which disorder someone actually has is to feed him all the pills and see which one actually ends up working? Yes I am exaggerating for comedic effect, but only slightly... only slightly. This is one of the reasons I love the social sciences... at this point most of the physical sciences are just very difficult math, or measuring and cataloguing minute differences, or doing elaborate and exacting experiments... things that I don't have an exceptional aptitude for. I'm not going to ever be a revolutionary chemist, I just don't have the numbers. 96th percentile in math will get you a big bag of 'not good enough' in some of the higher sciences. But we don't even know what SHAPE most of human sexuality is! Is dominance and submissiveness hardwired, or is it culturally imprinted? Nobody's even started to look at that, and that's... literally insane. I could come up with a comprehensive Kinsey style survey on cultural norms in sexuality in like six hours, and it wouldn't require that much math until the analytical stage (note: if you funded me to do this, I promise to spend more than six hours on it). The main problems are funding and ethics... but when you're screwing with your not-quite-human boyfriend's head, you don't need funding or ethics! Ahahahahahaha! I will do science to it. Ahem, Sorry, sorry. You need some ethics, I'm sure.
While determining whether or not they're seperate in conception or fact is a good start, it's not even vital to guess right, though I think it is important to figure out how he percieves them, and whether this perception actually changes from moment to moment, or whether how he explains it is simply changing. Whether or not he can be spoken with productively while he glows blue is more important, and speaking with him in the fade may be useful too (though I appreciate the increased challenge of doing without that.) The point is to try things and check in to see if all aspects, percieved or real, of the whole person are improving or not.
Sorry I realise I've pulled this thread back a couple of pages here (it moves way too fast for me to keep up with!). I don't from a scientific perspective think that it would be a good idea to 'check in to see if all aspects, percieved or real, of the whole person are improving or not'. Things could go backwards instead of getting better if you do the wrong thing. You can't start with a blank slate each time. Would you risk making someone worse?
Whatever you tried before will affect what you do in the future, so even if you try somethign and it appears to work you would never know why it did and whether it will remain that way.
I guess this is why I don't like most psychology, I have been to a counseller and it was one of the worst experiences of my life. If you don't know the answers, please don't try and mess with my head and go with gut instincts. I honestly feel the counselling made things worse. I do think it is better to leave well alone than to try guessing games with people. I think what bothers me the most about psychology is it seems very 'jack of all trades' to me. You wouldn't want a heart surgeon operating on your kidneys, yet in psychology generally the NHS offers one or two counsellers in an area who seem to deal with everything.
However, I do love science far too much and the only psychologists I like are the ones doing experiments on the brain and look at testable hypotheses. Which even I know is not how medicine always works, many things get cured by a mistake rather than research, so... I guess it could work but I personally wouldn't take the risk of making someone worse.
However, as someone who works at a science funding council maybe I could sneakily fund your research on human sexuality
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