The Dangers of the Therapeutic Culture

Clinical psychology is in a serious state. Although there are many psychologists who practice therapies with scientifically documented effects and others who perform tests with firm scientific underpinnings, there are also many who do the opposite, who practice psychotherapy that have been proven useless and perform tests that lack all predictive value. For some reason, the kind of corrective forces that have been relatively successful in purging snake oils from somatic medicine have been very inefficient in psychology and some parts of psychiatry.