Re: [xmca] Mike Cole on Instrumentalist understanding of mediation

[Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net>]

Oh one doesn't even have to go as far as psychotherapy, 
Martin. Any
manager or supervisor is changing someone's mind with words, 
but in
either case, if the purpose is to change someone else's 
actions, then
the word-actions are part of an activity. Psychotherpay as 
an example
just raises the possibility that someone's troubled inner 
state could be
amelioriated without expecting any change whatsoever in how 
they lived
their life. That's hard for me to imagine.
Andy

Martin Packer wrote:
> What about psychotherapy, Andy?
>
> Martin
>
> On Mar 12, 2012, at 1:07 AM, Andy Blunden wrote:
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>   
> > so long as we are only "doing things with words," then we indeed in the realms of idealism. You cannot, in my opinion, have "an activity" which is only words.
> >     
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