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Criticisms of “The Body Keeps the Score”

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249 points adityaathalye | 1 comments | 22 Oct 25 18:49 UTC | HN request time: 0.206s | source
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the_sleaze_ ◴[22 Oct 25 19:29 UTC] No.45673996[source]▶
> Book falls apart

My claim: there is no psychiatric body of work that is impervious to criticism. Not a single piece of psychological science is 100% true.

Drugs work but often don't. Therapies work but often don't. Alice's research falls apart under Bob's scrutiny.

It's a soft science, it is what it is.

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1. shkkmo ◴[22 Oct 25 19:44 UTC] No.45674191[source]▶
> there is no psychiatric body of work that is impervious to criticism. Not a single piece of psychological science is 100% true.

The scientific process is rarely perfect and levels of average levels of rigour vary between disciplines.

However, there are quite significantly varying levels of quality and rigour in psychological studies. Your criticism seems framed to ignore this and groups the charlatans in with the actuap scientists.