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How could this be possible? (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That book should not be taken seriously. Very much pseudoscience.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Well, it had a bunch of the answers I'd been looking for all my life, since therapists won't ever just come out and tell you any of that.

Do you think all of psychology is pseudoscience, or just the stuff that hasn't made it into the DSM yet? Who are you to say that a therapist with years of research experience doesn't know what they're talking about?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I'm not, but a quick search tells me the Canadian Journal of Psychology called it "arguably the most serious catastrophe to strike the mental health field since the lobotomy era" and I'll defer to an expert on this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

If you have the time, I strongly recommend Carrie Poppy's talk on this subject. You may find it enlightening.

https://pca.st/episode/b8b7d820-0cbd-4902-8864-e6205097006d

Whether you do or not, I'm glad the book helped you! That's genuinely wonderful. It does, however, posit a lot of disproven theories that can be very harmful when taken seriously. The Satanic Panic is the best possible example of this.