I’m afraid you may be the only one.
While I sympathize with the instinct to defend one’s profession, perhaps you should consider that these people at the APA and their ideological ilk are not actually practicing the same profession at all, but instead have co-opted the moniker of the profession for an endeavor of another kind entirely.
What I know of as the practice of psychiatry/psychology/sociology/etc. includes methods that no sane, non-sociopathic person could adopt. There’s a huge problem with this profession and there are millions of kids on functionally experimental psychoactive medicines whose existence attests to the distorted and disturbing nature of the field in the present day.
Trained and experienced in both psychology and psychiatry, I can offer some insight regarding the relative efficacy of each and why there are major problems in mental health care. To keep it short, many psychologists' clinical training presumes agreement with outrageous liberal-left dogma---in that regard they are out of step with reality and their patients, but well-received by fellow travelers, and so they continue to practice and generate patients's (and fellow FReepers') disdain.
The profession has, in my experience, as many nuts in it as the general public. The APA has been pushing it's liberal-leftist agenda since about 1967, as far as I can recall. I joined then as a grad student and within 3 years I resigned. I rejoined solely to get malpractice insurance at their group rate (about 1/4 the cost of other policies) in 1985 when I opened private practice.
Psychiatrists who practice in the community, in my experience, do not use "talking therapy"---ever. They also push one therapeutic modality, psychopharm. (Be wary of psychiatrist's Dx of Bipolar Disorder and the Rx given.) This sole reliance on one therapy is due to what I call, "medical economics." A medication check and Rx can take 10 minutes or less...a psychiatrist can (and does) bill for 30-50 said procedures an hour. (math error?)
For far too many practitioners, psychiatrists' professional identity crisis (i.e., Do we follow the medical model or the social-learning model?) was resolved as psychopharmacology improved. It was Faustian bargain, since now all they do is push pills and often polypharmacy results.
All of the medical professions are run by the government, one way or another...
Regards, R.