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Psychology - Science or Religion?

Name: Anonymous 2008-06-01 17:31

Psychology has adopted the scientific mode. However, from a strictly scientific point of view, it has not been able to meet the requirements of true science.

Name: Anonymous 2008-06-02 4:45

I'm not really into Psychology myself, but from what I've seen, there's three main classifications:

1) Bullshit. Past life regression "therapists", hypnotists, etc. These are idiots pushing their made up bullshit on other idiots. It should be legal to kill these fuckers on sight.

2) Pseudoscience. Psychology as a set of generalizations from observations. A bit more credible, as most psychiatrists actually do go to school to learn this shit, but they're still prone to "gut feelings" rather than an actual diagnosis. Especially vulnerable to bullshit fads like MPD/DID (made up bullshit), ADD/ADHD (bullshit misdiagnosis), etc. What makes it worse is that they give out drugs like candy. (If anyone's interested, I can relate my own frustrating experiences with these assholes, who literally almost killed me with their bullshit, but I won't waste time in this post.)

3) Actual Science. Basically Neuroscience like >>9 said, which is slowly eating away at #2. Stuff that actually follows the Scientific Method, complete with experimentation and prediction.

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