Comments on: The Invisible Jesus in Psychology

By: Red Flashlight

Red Flashlight — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 22:10:35 +0000

What’s the worst that could happen? I’d dare him to sue you. Your lawyer would be able to ask him in front of the jury just what you’d felt had crossed the line.

Okay okay, maybe you’d lose your license. But what about the Tarasoff rule? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarasoff_v._Regents_of_the_University_of_California )

By: Red Flashlight

Red Flashlight — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 21:57:58 +0000

I read the entire essay. Of course, if 5 therapists and 20 years of psychotherapy is any judge, I’m not entirely sane and absolutely not ‘normal’ by any stretch.

In my experience things like “you can choose your own feelings” and “think positive” hail from Scientology, E.S.T., and the Landmark Forum (and their ilk). Not psychotherapy. Maybe it depends on who you ask.

Anyway, I enjoyed reading your essay.

By: Anne

Anne — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:57:01 +0000

I read all of it – I was an ENTP the last time I actually completed the MB.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:57:13 +0000

I had the interest and the patience to read the entire essay, once I found the time… this morning.

Total bullshit that you can choose your feelings.

“But are the ideals and expectations of psychology rational? Do the terms and labels employed by psychology work toward better understanding and social enlightenment, or are they simply a convenient way to exclude in some way those who don’t fit the mold?”

No to the first question. Yes to the second.

I took Meyers-Briggs nearly 20 years ago and was an ENFP. It’s been a while but I remember my scores were close to the center – made me feel like Sybil trying to answer the questions.

I loved this essay.

By: caron

caron — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 11:30:51 +0000

Life is so many shades of gray. grey. greige.
We try so hard to make sense of the muck. The more we examine the things we think are black, or are white, the more we realize they contain aspects of the other. The yin yang symbol – each swirl contains a bit of it’s opposing color.

Sometimes I think of the world as glen plaid. Black and white woven together in a feisty arrangement, yet the overall effect is grayish. sometimes with little bits of color when you stare at it long enough.

By: Tammy

Tammy — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 01:22:41 +0000

God this makes me laugh!

Having been a psych major in college, I was subject to many personality tests and was prompted by your article to go back and re-take my favorite: the Machiavelli Personality Test aka the MACH-IV.

I was then, and am now, a “High Mach” which I will delineate here just because I find it funny and think you will as well . . .

“High Machs constitute a distinct type: charming, confident and glib, but also arrogant, calculating and cynical, prone to manipulate and exploit. (Think Rupert Murdoch, or if your politics permit it, President Clinton.)

True low Machs, however, can be kind of dependent, submissive and socially inept. So be sure to invite a high Mach or two to your next dinner party.

Jane, honey, I’ll have a high Mach dinner party with you any time!!!