> And a lot of other personal experience, and a pretty good understanding of the formal grammar analysis that spawned it (and that also underpins computer languages.)
You see, this is where you lose me. Chomsky's work has absolutely no applicability to treating mental illness, and he would be the first to explain that. His work is not even applicable to language translation, and has no hope of being in the foreseeable future. It is just a framework for discussing some basics of how human language works and can be learned.
Hell, it's barely applicable to computer languages, where again, it's only a framework for discussion. It certainly doesn't 'underpin' computer languages (the work of Alan Turing, John von Neumann and others does instead).
> Have you any experience whatsoever with hypnosis or NLP?
No, and neither do I with crystal healing, praying the lupus away, acupuncture and a myriad others.
You see, this is where you lose me. Chomsky's work has absolutely no applicability to treating mental illness, and he would be the first to explain that. His work is not even applicable to language translation, and has no hope of being in the foreseeable future. It is just a framework for discussing some basics of how human language works and can be learned.
Hell, it's barely applicable to computer languages, where again, it's only a framework for discussion. It certainly doesn't 'underpin' computer languages (the work of Alan Turing, John von Neumann and others does instead).
> Have you any experience whatsoever with hypnosis or NLP?
No, and neither do I with crystal healing, praying the lupus away, acupuncture and a myriad others.