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Criticisms of “The Body Keeps the Score”

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the_sleaze_ ◴[] 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. the_af ◴[] No.45674381[source]
I think the critique is fundamentally different from saying "it's soft science".

It's saying "it's bad research, misquoting experts and references, drawing sloppy conclusions aimed at a lay audience".

You can do psychology and psychiatry better than that, even if acknowledging they are not hard science.

There's no excuse for being sloppy or outright fraudulent.