I wouldn't go as far as to say it's a scam. Clinical psychology is definitely not perfect and clients should be aware that their professionals are fallible.
It might not be fair to hold clinical psychology to the standard of physiological health, as we do instinctively, because we know objectively a lot more about our bodies than we do our minds. It might be more fair to compare the underlying theory of psychology to theory in all the other sciences. In every science there are a large number of contentious debates, a large amount of subjective knowledge. Most people don't have any care about the gaps in objective knowledge in particle physics, but because of the nature of the application of psychology the gaps in objective knowledge here trickle down in a way more people will notice: into the clinical world and real people's lives.
As long as there is evidence that all the different perspectives in psychology hold clinical value, which they do, I think we should embrace the lack of homogeneity in clinical professionals.
IIN I hate when people say something is subjective like psychology?
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I wouldn't go as far as to say it's a scam. Clinical psychology is definitely not perfect and clients should be aware that their professionals are fallible.
It might not be fair to hold clinical psychology to the standard of physiological health, as we do instinctively, because we know objectively a lot more about our bodies than we do our minds. It might be more fair to compare the underlying theory of psychology to theory in all the other sciences. In every science there are a large number of contentious debates, a large amount of subjective knowledge. Most people don't have any care about the gaps in objective knowledge in particle physics, but because of the nature of the application of psychology the gaps in objective knowledge here trickle down in a way more people will notice: into the clinical world and real people's lives.
As long as there is evidence that all the different perspectives in psychology hold clinical value, which they do, I think we should embrace the lack of homogeneity in clinical professionals.