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Creative Speculation

hlthe2b

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2. Some of it is based in neuroscience, which poses the basis for medicalintervention therapy.

Reply to Backseat Driver (Original post)

Sun May 7, 2023, 12:48 PM

May 2023

There are areas that are less bounded in validated science, I suppose, though, on a population basis, there are attempts to apply the scientific method to studies, classification of mental disease, and evidence-based therapy. Perhaps not always as successfully-- given some of the limitations-- as in other fields of medicine, arguably.

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Are psychology and psychiatry real sciences? [View all] Backseat Driver May 2023 OP

It was sometimes described as a painful elaboration of the obvious. GreenWave May 2023 #1

Some of it is based in neuroscience, which poses the basis for medicalintervention therapy. hlthe2b May 2023 #2

i think it's squishy. mopinko May 2023 #3

Yes, I worked under a therapist who said: Captain Zero May 2023 #8

As real a science as physics. Chainfire May 2023 #4

Good way of putting it. But "making decisions based on insufficient information" is not the erronis May 2023 #5

This is another area where AI is stepping in and may be able to help (more than hinder) erronis May 2023 #6

Radical Behaviorism is based on hard science. multigraincracker May 2023 #7