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0 pointsj_baker16y ago0 comments

That's simply not true. Psychology is based on evidence. The problem is that the human mind is a lot more difficult to understand than the stomach. As such, a good psychologist is a man with one eye in the land of the blind so to speak.

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DeusExMachina16y ago· 2 in thread

Psychotherapy is even based on more evidence, since a psychotherapist is a doctor and not only a psychologist, and understands the psychological part as well as the physiological one.

akgerber16y ago

You're probably thinking of a psychiatrist. My dad is a psychotherapist and has an MCSW.

DeusExMachina16y ago

Uh, sorry, I'm thinking in terms of italian definitions. Probably in other countries these are a little different.

Eliezer16y ago

Okay. Give me an example of a psychotherapeutic technique and cite the evidence it's based on.

I know of one form of psychotherapy that has some evidence behind it. The rest has been repeatedly tested and found to work no better than talking to a sympathetic intelligent person with no psychology training.

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