A thought occurred to me this morning when thinking about the American Psychiatric Association's "The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5)". Is this book or a Bible? Is there Orthodox psychology? The APA is always changing it, why? I just feel like this is a rock I've never uncovered and looking for input from people that have gone down this road already.
Is psychology a religion?
Gabriel Morales
Owen Nelson
Shut up you schizophrenic incel
Oliver Clark
Some of it is, yes. The dogmatic pick and choose what they want to believe. For instance, gender dysphoria was considered a mental illness until recently. They're also susceptible to bullying from identity groups that don't like objective observations. The trans movement always played dirty until they got their way.
Ethan Rogers
So I'm on to something?
Eli Watson
Psychological disorders should be looked at as collections of symptoms and behaviors and not as compartmentalized ailments like a flu or infection. Most psychologists fail to grasp this, tainting the entire field.
Brody Ross
You are retarded. Psychology is largely evidence and experiment based while faith is, by definition, not. Religion is an organized system of gudelines regarding morality and how to live one's life. There is no moral element to psych beyond experimental ethics (which are for pussies anyway) and the goal of psych is to understand not instruct.
The DSM changes the same way medicine changes. We learn new things or find out that things we thought we knew were wrong. APA is a bunch of idpol faggots and make stupid decisions but conflating them with the entire field is dumb. Psych is a science, even if only just, and sciences are immune to whatever fake bullshit the kikes try to preach.
Cooper Ramirez
Basically yes, but then again all of medicine is.
Psychology based on facts exists in the literature but is extremely, extremely rare. Usually it's "hypothesis -> throw shit at wall -> claim victory without proof" instead of "hypothesis -> experiment -> conclusion". For example, there was a funny (because it was retarded) paper that claimed children under X age were not able to tell the difference in the scale of items. First, the child was presented a rideable toy car. The child would go straight to it and play. Next he was presented a model toy car. He looked at the psych as if she was retarded, so she told him to try to enter the car. When the kid did as instructed, she claimed it was proof the kid didn't understand scale.
This is an example of "good psychology" in psychology. Average psychology is far worse, it goes something like: ask 20 men and 42 women if they like ice cream. Don't control for population in any respect. Notice that 1/2 of the men and 3/4 of the women like ice cream. Claim this is proof that women have a more developed tongue. Notice how beside having 0 proper control, there is also 0 connection between the experiment and the conclusion.
Carson Reyes
Not sure why you guys are talking about psychology by the way, this is psychiatry.
But yes, psychiatry is also a religion of sorts.
Just look at bipolar: only bipolar-1 was considered bipolar until the 90's, and recently, they added cyclothymia (aka "feeling slightly down sometimes while happy some other times" aka being a normal person) as a kind of bipolar, despite widespread disagreement in the scientific spheres.
Doctors don't care of course, they just follow their little flowcharts and that's that.
Nathan Morgan
Psychology and all its variants are more of a very recent Western cultural philosophy than a science. The idea that you need pills all your life for anxiety or depression is exclusively a post-Enlightenment Western society practice. Psychologists are believed wholeheartedly as authority figures similar to shamans.
These are ritualized cultural behaviors.
Cooper Gray
Yeah you are right. They are different. Still wondering who makes the rules and adjusts things. It's like who gives the power? How do they explain unknowns?