Well, it had a bunch of the answers I’d been looking for all my life, since therapists won’t ever just come out and tell you any of that.
Do you think all of psychology is pseudoscience, or just the stuff that hasn’t made it into the DSM yet? Who are you to say that a therapist with years of research experience doesn’t know what they’re talking about?
Whether you do or not, I’m glad the book helped you! That’s genuinely wonderful. It does, however, posit a lot of disproven theories that can be very harmful when taken seriously. The Satanic Panic is the best possible example of this.
I’m not, but a quick search tells me the Canadian Journal of Psychology called it “arguably the most serious catastrophe to strike the mental health field since the lobotomy era” and I’ll defer to an expert on this.
Well, it had a bunch of the answers I’d been looking for all my life, since therapists won’t ever just come out and tell you any of that.
Do you think all of psychology is pseudoscience, or just the stuff that hasn’t made it into the DSM yet? Who are you to say that a therapist with years of research experience doesn’t know what they’re talking about?
If you have the time, I strongly recommend Carrie Poppy’s talk on this subject. You may find it enlightening.
https://pca.st/episode/b8b7d820-0cbd-4902-8864-e6205097006d
Whether you do or not, I’m glad the book helped you! That’s genuinely wonderful. It does, however, posit a lot of disproven theories that can be very harmful when taken seriously. The Satanic Panic is the best possible example of this.
I’m not, but a quick search tells me the Canadian Journal of Psychology called it “arguably the most serious catastrophe to strike the mental health field since the lobotomy era” and I’ll defer to an expert on this.