>>11936631You have to be careful judging psychology as a whole, over judging its subdisciplines. Some subdisciplines are significantly better than others, behavioral psychology for example, does not have any of the issues you state.
>Replication CrisisThis was discovered by psychologists. It isn't a problem exclusive to psychology. It applies to most fields of science, including hard sciences as well.
>SubdisciplinesThis is true, but its not like the hard behavioral psychologist will agree with the cognitive psychologist's contradictory conclusions. Its more of a problem that certain sub disciplines get too much credit like Evolutionary Psychology. You will see that behavioral psychology doesn't really have any of the problems you mentioned, and should be given more credit.
>Psychological Therapies are mostly uselessApplied Behavior Analysis is among one of the only types of therapy plans approved to treat people with autism spectrum disorder by the US government. Other therapies like Systematic desensitization are useful for treating phobias.
>Descriptive workBehavioral psychology primarily does research through descriptive work, which often involves directly observing problem behavior and creating definitions for it that are specific to the person they are working with. Behavioral psychology focuses on individual behavior rather than on the "average" behavior, this applies for experimental work too.
>Speculative TheoriesDepends on what you mean by this. Behavioral psychologists avoid believing in things that cannot be directly observed, going so far to call internal constructs unnecessary. Infact, one of the philosophical debates in the field is whether or not emotions should even be recognized as valuable for understanding behavior (The main philosophy of the field says they should, but behavioral psychologists almost never study emotion or try to use it to understand behavior, which has led to the debate).
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