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[–] ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social 18 points 7 months ago (2 children)

No, you're massively overgeneralizing. Freud is pseudoscience, but there's lots of very real studies especially around the 60s (before ethics were considered) that follow the scientific method and have real measurable outcomes and conclusions.

Don't be anti science. Science is a method, not a social club.

[–] emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 months ago

There definitely is real, experimental psychology, but unfortunately the vast majority of psychology in the popular consciousness, and even in some academic / professional bodies, is modern-day phrenology. (Also I'd cut Freud some slack, since he was working based on the standards of his time.)

[–] porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Psychology from the 60s is unreplicatable just-so story trash. Some stuff being done in the last decade or two is starting to approach legitimacy, but I think we're still not really there yet.