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Back in the 70s I had a lot of experience with psychologists in Gainesville Florida which town probably has the highest concentration of government offices and psychologists in the country. I found that they are subject to raging Fads more than any other profession and at leat as much as high school girls and watched the psychs there totally ruin the lives of a bunch of young women who were students at UF or the Community college there which itself is huge. The fad du jour was that any female who went to a psych- and most of the social sciences students were required to do sessions then as part of one course or another- was a repressed Lesbian and had to act it out positively in order to shed her neurosis. Several I knew got totally f***ed up because of that and two lost their marriages to very good men. One is still now afraid of men and women when in 1975 she had a fine marriage and a baby and a 3.6 average. Now she is an elderly cat lady with a houseful.

I became convinced then and nothing has changed my mind since that Psychology is a fraudulent science and psychologists are frauds. period. The only exceptions seem to be psychs who work in private as marketers and such and for them a good people sense is what they have and their psych degrees are irrelevant except for getting the job. I hear indignation and protest from Psychologists who are "Christian" or/and "conservative' but when I get to know them the only modification I make in my estimation of fraudulence is that some, a few, don't understand that they are frauds.

“I became convinced then and nothing has changed my mind since that Psychology is a fraudulent science and psychologists are frauds. period.”

Psychologists should by no means be considered scientists. In fact every psychologist I have met has some fairly obvious “issues” they are trying to work out. More than one has admitted that people who go into psychology do so to try and understand/fix their own neuroses.

On my years of the observation that has come to pretty much the same conclusions, I came up with an alternate possibility. Growing up as a tinkerer and fascinated by anything technically oriented, I gravitated to a career in engineering and design. My favorite days were Christmas and birthdays because it meant new subjects to my inquisitive nature of how it worked and why. Armed with my own tools (obtained with funds derived from cashing the deposits from soda and beer bottles littered along the landscape), I embarked on my quest. To include figuring out how to put them back together in a functional state. Knowing some of these "shrinks" personally over the years, I wondered what would possess someone to embark on such a "profession". My conclusion was they may have been subjected to some sort of "counseling" in the past, disagreed with it, and then decided to go to schools so they could figure themselves out.

I became convinced then and nothing has changed my mind since that Psychology is a fraudulent science and psychologists are frauds.

Totally agree. Recently I expressed this opinion on a message board -- the theme of which had nothing remotely to do with psychology, it just came up -- and my typically mild manner of expressing myself did not save me from getting promptly banned for hurting feelings.

Psychology is a belief system with nonsense at its roots and lunacy in its flowers. Unfortunately it's as vigorous as kudzu.

My mom and two of my stepfathers were psychologists and I tend to agree. A lot of my childhood was spent around psychologists, psychiatrists, psychotherapists and other psych types in private practice and on wards in the local State mental hospital where my mother worked.

They were arrogant and felt superior to other humans because they thought their “knowledge” and degrees gave them the power to get inside of another person’s head and “fix” them. They tended to casually study people in conversation. Creepy when you know the skinny on how screwed up the person is who is doing the “studying”.

Back then I thought every psych professional I knew was crazy and was drawn to that field as a means of denial. I still feel that way in large part, but I have to admit to meeting a very small handful throughout my life that I felt were there for the right reason and able to help people with their problems.

The profession of psychiatry is truly broken and probably was flawed from the beginning.