I'd be distressed if Lois and other people whose main focus is something
other than PCP were to feel excluded--theories do run the risk of becoming
cultish when they refuse to draw connections with other schools of thought
(psychoanalysis being the classic example). An FAQ file with a reading
list might go a long way toward dealing with the problem of people
arriving on the list without adequate background. As for the rest, I think
it's better to take our chances on an occasional disruption than to go
overboard trying to prevent a problem that may or may not occur again.
The two episodes that inspired this thread don't seem to me to have much
in common--one seems to have involved malice, the other was
well-intentioned but misdirected--and I can't think of any single strategy
that would have prevented both of them, even if prevention is assumed to
be a desirable goal.
Perhaps the most useful thing about all this (for me, at any rate) is the
light it sheds on how the sociality corollary operates in cyberspace.
It's not a terribly bright light as yet, but maybe we can crank up the
wattage....
Best
Tim
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School of Professional Psychology is a basic science in
2004 Pacific Avenue which the scientists
Forest Grove, OR 97116 USA are the client and his
<connort@pacificu.edu> therapist"
--George Kelly
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