[MD] Psychiatry/Psychology

[Christoffer Ivarsson]

Bodvar, Everyone

Bodvar wrote:
> What I wanted to speak to you (all) about was your opening remark of
> instances where the MOQ brings light where the SOM is lost. These
> days the family tragedy in Austria is hot stuff and along with it the gene
> versus society problem is raised - at least around here. Is behavior
> caused by heredity or by culture?. This is the "nurture/nature"
> conundrum which is an offshoot of the S/O dichotomy and again and
> again the issue surfaces and again and again some claim that genes
> dominate while other claim that culture is the decisive factor, in the
> said case - Austria have some national streak that produces Hitlers
> and other monsters ... etc.. Then the wise guy arrives who "settles" it
> by saying that none are dominant, it's a combination. This latter
> position sounds obvious, yet it's impossible to find how such an
> interplay takes place, one must be the REAL cause  Right now the
> nature (gene) camp (Dawkins) dominates, but just wait and see, the
> nurture (culture) camp will re-emerge sooner or later. This SOM
> pattern is like all other S/Os a constant see-saw - one goes up while
> the other goes down - because the subject/object split is inferior
> compared with the dynamic/static one.
>
> Bo

Spot on I'd say.

 We had a seminar about this stuff today, and people were to give their 
input on insanity and the difficulties of diagnoses in a historical 
perspective etc. It amused me, because just as you say it kept returning to 
this culture/nature thing, and apart from my input, the consensus seemed to 
be that this problem was something that could not be escaped.

It seems to me that the area of psychiatry/psychology is the area where MOQ 
input could be made most efficiently.

Regards

Chris