What are some good sources (books, articles, websites…) that bash the psychology profession?
I’m doing a research essay on Gilman’s The Yellow Wall-Paper, which is a story about a women who has just had a child. She seems to be fine, but because her husband is a psychologist, he believes she may have post-partem depression, so he admits her to a rest cure. The rest cure ends up making her even more Mad, so in the end, her husband was wrong.
My essay needs to talk about the wrong doings of psychology. Tom Cruise seems to bash psychology. I need some books or credible websites that talk about psychology in a bad way.
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I most definitely recommend you read Ronald Laing, who was a British psychiatrist, co founder of the so called anti-psychiatry movement, along with David Cooper. They both have really good insight on the ills of psychology or actually psychiatry, with the excellent advantage of being very well learned on the subjects they critically approach, they aren’t "just a couple of ignorant luddites", so to speak; beware of that, because there IS a lot of gratuitous and misinformed psychology-bashing out there, which does no good to anyone, since it just discredits the true critics, and strengthens the psychological establishment thru a vulgar display of vehemence and ignorance.
Also, I recommend Benjamin (I don’t recall her first name), an American feminist who has some pretty interesting views on psychoanalysis. Lastly, Stephen Jay Gould, he completely and quite successfully tears apart the whole intelligence tests/personality tests aspect of psychology, mostly in their methodological aspects.
Good luck with that paper.
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psychologists like to bash other psychologists. if your school has a research database, you can always find articles about it.
The big problem with psychologists is, their research is their price puppy and nobody else can touch it. they are really one-eyed about it and will defend their theories to death. so search for any research done by psychologist especially those that has peer evaluation or is an academic journal.
Some famous cases would be:
DR Phil on the Oprah show who has not practise as a psychologist for 14 years is suddenly giving counselling on TV.
DR James Dobson is a well known family counsellor but was heavily criticised for so many things. He’s a fundamentalist who interprets the bible literally.
Kinsley, the founding father of sex psychology was heavily criticise because he forced some of his subjects to answer questions in the way that he wants.
Even Freud was pounded frequently by non American psychologists for seemingly like a drug addict or dreamer.
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