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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. int_19h ◴[22 Oct 25 22:05 UTC] No.45675735[source]▶

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It might be a soft science but there's still a difference between that and pseudoscience, and "recovered memories" are pretty firmly in the latter bucket.

https://greyfaction.org/wiki/bessel-van-der-kolk/

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