2009-08-06, 08:43 AM
I'm surprised to hear this coming out now since sexual orientation had already been taken out of the DSM IV many, many years ago according to at least one of my psychology professors. O-o But yay for officialness I guess...
As Rob said, psychology IS a science. As for science like physics, which science really IS like physics? It is the oldest one. Biochemistry and bio-engineering are also comparatively young sciences (well really anything compared with physics is) and look at the advances made in that field. Young they might be, but they are still science disciplines built around the same scientific principles.
And "psychobabble" you refer to is actually effective therapy, with psychotherapy sometimes being at least as effective, if not more than, drugs. All of my psychology professors were aware of the validity of IQ tests and all of them pretty much shoved it down our throats about how little information such tests actually reveal. They value empirical evidence as much as the next scientist. Whaddya know.
Quantact Wrote:Those guys won't listen to the APA. Even for people with an education, shrinks are iffy... they talk in psychobabble, and half the crap they use (IQ tests) are not universally accepted or even valid. It's a young discipline, and while it's useful, it's not exactly a science like physics, at least not right now.
As Rob said, psychology IS a science. As for science like physics, which science really IS like physics? It is the oldest one. Biochemistry and bio-engineering are also comparatively young sciences (well really anything compared with physics is) and look at the advances made in that field. Young they might be, but they are still science disciplines built around the same scientific principles.
And "psychobabble" you refer to is actually effective therapy, with psychotherapy sometimes being at least as effective, if not more than, drugs. All of my psychology professors were aware of the validity of IQ tests and all of them pretty much shoved it down our throats about how little information such tests actually reveal. They value empirical evidence as much as the next scientist. Whaddya know.