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Originally Posted by FairyCrystal
Psychology is science.
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There is a lot of debate about psychology being science. I'm a science buff. It's basically measuring to test hypotheses, but much falls outside the things that can be quantified. Psychology is one of those things.
They have rested on the idea that the person emerges from the brain, so they can fit into medical discourse, but diagnoses are not medical; they are a professional opinion about behaviours seen through diagnostic-coloured glasses. It's amounts to upper-middle-class white men making up stories and slotting everyone into their categorical world-view. In practice, the power balance favours the analyst who produces the discourse, categories, names, labels, and that expert/client relation is validated by medicalised language. We find the analyst's report sounds vastly different, in language even we don't understand, to a client's self-described experience. Then we become increasingly disempowered as we lose our voice, and the expert tells it instead.