JK Rowling on CBC Newsworld tonight

[bdclark0423]

bdclark0423:

Funny, but not sure if it's true about being English and the money being
spent on shoes rather than therapy, but you've just contradicted
yourself by making generalization about a group of people right after
admonishing  Tonks for doing the same thing.

I think Tonks realizes that (s)he really didn't mean for the
discussion to go in this direction, but (s)he obviously didn't do
anything to prevent it from happening either
.I mean come on....the
replies kept coming with even more sensitive topics just being added to
the pot:  abuse, abandonment, homosexuality, God, subconscious motifs to
kill, Freudian psycho-sexual theories, I mean Tonks really just keeps
pushing, huh?

But I too, have a degree which heavily included child psychology, and
everything Tons said, in my understanding of many psychological models,
is in line with those schools of thought.  And since Freudian is
considered to be beginning of modern psychology, it is hard to move away
from some of the fundamentals, whether you feel they're right or
not, because it's so hard not to just see the glaring and obvious
similarities in the way we humans still behave today.

As in my previous post, I truly feel Tonks has the intention of
providing a positive reinforcement to the complexities of the psyche. 
Considering the brain is still a huge unmapped region for us, this makes
it far from being an exact science.

What we have is basically built upon tendencies we see in human
behavior, which I believe Tonks is trying to explain.  Just because you
think strawberries should be more like apples, doesn't make them
grow on trees.





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