grizzleb
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I guess you are right, I'm probably more interested in psychoanalysis than psychological experiments than anything.I have noticed (and this is just an anecdote) that some British people seem to have a strong, visceral response against psychology and analysis. Some Americans do, too, of course.
But I think this comes from the mistaken belief that repressing bad/negative/difficult feelings is better than processing them. This is a very unhealthy attitude, according to most psycho-medical models.
I've got a psychology lecturer in the course I'm doing just now and he acts really over the top aggressive with me and everyone else in the class, with the belief that because this gets his class good marks that it's worthwhile. I'm just not comfortable with forcing yourself to be aggressive and justifying it with the belief that you are doing it 'for the greater good'.