I thought when I read it it was about Psychologists defrauding their grantors and universities by dreaming up research to support the harebrained fraudulent practices of other psychologists........
Well I don’t think the author was addressing psychological counseling. My own suspicion is that the study of the human mind through a scientific approach is at best marginally useful. Questions which can be well defined and quantified about the mind are too complex to test, and questions that are easy to test are things that we already knew intuitively and give us no additional insight. Still we have many researchers in the field who are well paid and well respected, whose job it is to pretend they are conducting a hard science. I would suspect that some of these have more integrity than others, but the ones that are most richly rewarded with grants and fame are the ones that cook up conclusions that support the ideology and agendas of those in the support system...which is pretty much all left wing in this time of the history of western civilization.