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by alanwatts 3131 days ago
>Generally there is no harm in theorizing, but I consider psychology and psychotherapy to be too important to allow ourselves to consider untested information.

Psychology and psychotherapy are almost wholly theoretical, subjective, soft sciences, rather than objectively testable hard sciences like physics and biology.

>psychiatric diagnosis still relies exclusively on fallible subjective judgments rather than objective biological tests".[1][2]

-Allen Frances

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Frances

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*Psychology and psychiatry I meant to say