>>12559283there are a few subsets. the "modern" one that investigates mental illness using neural imaging and measures of behavior is for the most part not bullshit.
psychiatry isn't bullshit but medicine that doesn't work is pushed through by the profit incentive.
therapy is sometimes bullshit. research-based therapy like CBT (cock and ball torture) can work pretty well. therapy cults also exist, and there's no shortcut for the average person to differentiate a passable therapist from a con artist.
Repressed memories are real, but false memories can also be induced. Anyone claiming to use hypnosis to recover repressed memories is a bullshitter.
Evolutionary psychology shows promise, but has turned into a political arena and won't be reliable for another century.
Jungian analysis, hypnotic regression, and mindfulness are entirely bullshit and always have been.
tl;dr different fields of psychology have delivered some very promising findings but like any emerging science it's absolutely loaded with frauds
