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Have you.. met a psychology grad?
If yes, ask them if they are employed.
But the question then becomes as what? How many of them are employed in a useful job that makes use of their intellectual capacity? I think the same of humanities and liberal arts, they tend not to be employed at high level jobs.
To answer the original question, I think psychology should be replaced more or less by neurological sciences. It’s not wrong to ask why humans do what they do, but psychology lacks rigor and empirical studies that are common in other fields. In short, if it were held to the same standards as other sciences, it would probably be seen as unscientific.
Psychology because of the lack of rigor has unleashed a lot of problems. The advice they give is generally bad for relatively normal people, as it tends to cause people to overthink their feelings and turn them into facts. A person who’s depressed and goes to therapy will be told that their feelings are true and valid, and to focus on feelings. You tell them to feel better. But if you’re focused on the lies your brain is telling you, then you’ll take them at face value. And for normal people, the approach tends to create pathology as people try to be happy, and when something goes wrong, fall to pieces because they’ve been taught that they’re fragile. This leads to anxiety, depression, and other mental illnesses, or to turning a fleeting into a full blown identity.
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