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-> 'Sci. & Humanities in Understanding Human Nature'
     by Robert Maxwell Young 

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Date: 27 May 2000 05:34:07 -0700
From: Robert Maxwell Young 
Subject: 'Sci. & Humanities in Understanding Human Nature'

'Science and the Humanities in theUnderstanding of Human Nature' 171K
by Robert M. Young
http://www.human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/pap131.html

This is my Inaugural Lecture as Professor of Psychotherapy and
Psychoanalytic Studies at the Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies
of the University of Sheffield. In it I stand back and reflect on the
respective roles of the sciences and the humanities in understanding
human nature. I discuss the problematic nature of each of the terms
in the title and argue passionately for the reintegration of values
with science, technology and medicine. I discuss both 'the Science
Wars' and 'the Freud Wars' and try to place my work in the context
of these disputes. I also try to show the many ways in which writings
in the sciences and the humanities interpenetrate. My argument
stresses the baleful consequences of the many splits in our culture
which sequester values and prevent the consideration of scientific
matters in ways which include the moral social, political and
ideological dimensions.
An annotated version will be put on my web site in due course.
Robert Maxwell Young, Professor of Psychotherapy & Psychoanalytic
Studies,
Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies, University of Sheffield,
16 Claremont Cresc., Sheffield S10 2TA. http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/
Co-Director, Bulgarian Institute of Human Relations & Honoured
Professor,
New Bulgarian University, Sofia. http://www.nbu.bg/bihr/psy.htm
Home: 26 Freegrove Rd., London N7 9RQ. tel. +44 207 607 8306
Private Practice, Consultation, Supervision
Web Site & Writings  http://www.human-nature.com
r.m.young@sheffield.ac.uk, robert@rmy1.demon.co.uk
One must imagine Sisyphus happy.' - Camus