It’s All In Our Heads? At best, the psychological industry has utterly failed to stop the progress of the pandemic of despair and depression that have overwhelmed America and the West. Psychology as a field of study is mostly pseudoscience: it separates for study as objects what is inherently inseparable as subjects. There are effective therapists (one in five at most in America), but the psychological industry as a whole has been misleading people from a misguided philosophical foundation for decades. Couching psychological separation in terms of scientific study does nothing to clarify confusion, and everything to increase division.

Source: New York Times June 20, 2023 23:27 UTC