Re: Psychanalysis/ The Natural Order of Things

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From: William Marsh (redcloud54@earthlink.net)
Date: 09/02/02-02:07:35 PM Z


I WAS responding to the idea of the post.

Katharine Thayer wrote:
>
> On the list we have people from all over the world, people for whom
> English is not a first language, and even English speakers who usually
> write very well can inadvertently err when dashing a quick response. I
> hope we can all be big enough to overlook syntax errors and respond only
> to the ideas in a post. Thank you.
> Katharine Thayer
>
> William Marsh wrote:
> >
> > Arthur,
> >
> > When using the plural form of the word "psychotherapist," the preceding
> > verb should also be plural. As per your statement, it should read:
> > "Then there ARE all the psychotherapists with MSW degreeS [plural also, since
> > you have established reference to more than one psychotherapist],
> > [another comma, to separate the dependent clause] who have no idea what
> > they are doing. [no run-on sentences!] They often do more harm than good."
> >
> > Bill
> >
> > ARTHURWG@aol.com wrote:
> > >
> > > Most contemporary psychiatric practice seems to center on which drug
> > > or combination of drugs to use, or on various forms of behaviorism.
> > > Then there's all the psychotherapists who have an MSW degree and have
> > > no idea what they're doing and often do more harm than good. Arthur


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