Admirable Evasions-Theodore Dalrymple with Scott Cluthe LIVE

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interviews LIVE from London Theodore Dalrymple, author of Admiralbe
Evasions: How Psychology Undermines Morality. Call in:
347-308-8478.  If all the antidepressants and anxiolytics in
the world were thrown into the sea, as Oliver Wendell Holmes once
suggested should be done with the whole of the pharmacopoeia, if
all textbooks of psychology were withdrawn and pulped, if all
psychologists ceased to practice, if all university departments of
psychology were closed down, if all psychological research were
abandoned, if all psychological terms were excised from everyday
speech, would Mankind be the loser or the gainer, the wiser or the
more foolish? Would his self-understanding be any the less? Would
his life be any the worse? Theodore Dalrymple argues that most
psychological explanations of human behavior are not only
ludicrously inadequate oversimplifications that often ignore the
most obvious evidence, but they are also socially harmful in
allowing those who believe in them to blame their personal distress
on their childhood, genes, neurochemistry, or evolutionary
pressures—among a multitude of other possibilities. Admirable
Evasions exposes how the fashionable schools of thought in
psychology, while each claiming to have achieved deeper insight
into human nature than ever before, in fact push further away from
the honest self-examination that is necessary in the formation of
human character.