A fair statement of the problem. Don’t worry though, help is on the way.
Freud was a coke head who thinks everyone shared his sexual fascination with their mothers.
His Id, Ego, Superego is extremely derivative to ancient greek stuff.
You know, one of the sad things is that some of the worst psychologists I have known, who have done the most damage to their clients, were “Christian Psychologists”. I am a Christian myself, and have been quite disturbed by some of the advice they have handed out.
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Psychology is a poor excuse for a science.
Of course, there is a difference between research psychology and psychotherapy.
Excellent post. Atheism sneers at morality, and considers right and wrong merely as a matter of perspective, yet they dont’t want to be painted as having no morals. You can’t have it both ways.
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Forensic psychology: The intersection between Psychology and the legal system. It is a division of applied psychology concerned with the collection, examination and presentation of psychological evidence for judicial purposes.
Psychology : The religion establish by the government.
Psychology is a huge and multi-faceted field. There are many psychologists whose entire research programs involves nothing but the empirical, experimental method (but the public isn’t aware of this). And there are others, using only the experimental method, who focus on physiology and it’s role in behavior. The number of psychologists who are strictly arm-chair philosophers for a living are a small minority. Aside from the clinical field (treating patients), most psychologists adhere strictly to the scientific method.
FYI - a religion!
Over the years I have paid attention to reports of long term studies of the effects of psychological therapies. Without exception people who go to psychologists end up doing worse in life than people with similar problems who don’t seek ‘help’. It’s most striking in prisons where prisoners who don’t go to therapy have a lower recidivism rate than those who do.
Until psychology can show evidence that it’s not harmful I will continue to consider it a con game.
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Psychology certainly has plenty to hang it’s head in shame over.
However, it’s not all as bad as the article makes it out to be.
Christian Psychology has certainly done a lot to help mangled families get back on track.
Decreasing interpersonal pain and helping build more solid, lasting, durable families is something to be proud of.