//the psychs are totally out of control.//

Call them what they are: psychobabblers.

Generally, but not always, lefties. There are right-wing Christian psychobabblers out there, too.

//the psychs are totally out of control.//

Call them what they are: psychobabblers.

Generally, but not always, lefties. There are right-wing Christian psychobabblers out there, too.<<

This, of course, is absolutely false. There is a lot of good, serious science done in psychology departments.

There are plainly serious mental illness. John Nash, for instance, was seriously ill with  legitimate disease. And the treatment of such illness has improved-greatly- in the last century

There are quacks in mental health. There are quacks in other medical specialties. There are quacks in math and physics, I know why you say what you did-the social sciences do have a disporportionate number of nutjob, giving the whole field a bad name. I worked for a while on a 'social science' research project. Collecting and a little analyzing of data. I had a very low opinion of that research even before I saw the paper that issued from it: a paper that was flatly fraudulent. A lot of what comes from those areas of academia I drench with salt.

But there's also a lot of excellent and important science done in psych departments

>>I was annoyed when "autism" was replaced by "autism spectrum disorder."  I was positively irritated when the diagnosis of "autism spectrum disorder" was expanded to include almost every kind of developmental problem.<<

You want to see a spectrum?  Stop by the library, when we open the doors to the homeless crowd in the front at 0900 this morning.

Frank 

I remind you of what the psychobabblers did to Alan Turing.

Up until the 1970s, homosexuality was defined as a mental illness in the psychobabbler Bible.

Now, unable to learn from their mistakes, the psychobabblers have defined homophobia to be a mental illness. Now, disliking fags may be bigotry, but it is a choice, not an illness.

The Major was clearly committing suicide - suicide by cop - one of the cruelest of all choices.

Why is it that shrinks and other psychobabblers have a much hgher suicide rate than the population as a whole? Their knowledge is demonstrably not very useful. And certainly not scientific.