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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: 0.212s | 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. mbesto ◴[22 Oct 25 19:56 UTC] No.45674330[source]▶
> My claim: there is no psychiatric body of work that is impervious to criticism.

Which makes these books all the more dangerous because the authors are overly confident about their conclusions and hence the attraction (which leads to book sales). When the unexplainable suddenly becomes explainable, the money rolls in.