The history of psychology is wild.

    • 𝕯𝖎𝖕𝖘𝖍𝖎𝖙
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      265 months ago

      https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Carl_Jung

      To be more specific, Jung’s psychology has been characterized as “unscientific” on the following grounds:

      • that some Jungian concepts, such as archetypes and synchronicity, cannot be proven by the scientific method
      • that Jung subscribed to a nineteenth-century notion of evolution that has since been discredited
      • that Jung’s valuation of the mental functions of feeling and intuition on the same level as thinking weakens the attitude of rational objectivity that is essential in scientific research
      • that Jung’s interest in occult traditions, including the pre-scientific European past (third-century Gnosticism and medieval alchemy) and contemporary Asian cultures (Taoism and Tibetan Buddhism) amounts to a glorification of mysticism and irrationality
      • that Jung’s clinical specialization in the treatment of schizophrenia and his own brush with psychosis made him an untrustworthy guide to “ordinary” reality

      https://www.europeanmedical.info/cognitive-therapy/the-unscientific-nature-of-jungs-psychology.html

      • @[email protected]
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        15 months ago

        See, the only issue with that explanation is that it didn’t really introduce to the reader any of Jung’s contributions or beliefs. But yeah, fuck spiritualists. This Jung guy would have been right at home in a modern Midwifery Association.

      • @[email protected]
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        -45 months ago

        This is only 10% of the article dipshit. Some of these points are only theorized to be the case.

        Also, I find it kind of funny. Scientific method is just a model with its own flaws and is bound to faliure in certain fields as all models do.

    • @dudinax
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      115 months ago

      How do you debunk a bunch of woo?