I really enjoyed your paper. I agree with all of the postive
comments made by the others as well as their suggestions for when
you rewrite.
I plan to use it to educate the consulting psychologists and
psychiatrists at the place where I work about HPCT and its
relationship to other views in psychology.
From a therapy perspective, all three views would likely fall
under the cognitive/behavioral umbrella. This leaves out the
psychoanalytic and humanistic/existential perpsectives.
One observation: Most of the consultant clinical staff to our
center are psychoanalytically oriented. I think that HPCT therapy
ideas have something in common with psychoanalytic views. For
example: the idea of the importance of conflict, the idea of
background perceptions at a higher level which a person is not
aware of, the idea of resistance in therapy, the importance of
wants.
In terms of your three blind men, I guess I would have to say
that the "cognitive" view comes the closest to representing the
psychoanalytic position. Would you agree?
Another point: the humanistic/existential view, for example as
represented by Alvin Mahrer, is another major frame of reference
in therapy which seems to be missing from the story. Can they be
included?
I would appreciate receiving an updated version of the paper when
it becomes available.
Thanks.
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To: Rick Marken, other CSGnet people
From: David Goldstein
Subject: your paper
Date: 05/10/92