Cognitive behavioral therapy has statistically-significant results.

The ''Women are Wonderful'' effect is well supported ( both men and women have a bias in favor of women and girls ).

Conditioning works. ( Positive reinforcement, negative reinforcement, positive punishment, negative punishment. )

I still recall the (female) teacher confused when I said hitting your dog to make it stop barking is positive punishment ( in the framework of Conditioning ).

Punishment is to extinguish a behavior, whereas positive / negative refer to applying or withdrawing a stimulus. It isn't a moral judgement on that stimulus. Applying pain to stop barking is thus positive punishment.

Exposure therapy against phobias works well too ( most of the time the phobia is gone forever, except social phobia, which has to be managed forever ).

Most of the rest, like ''implicit bias'', is pseudoscience.

The basis for anti-depressants such as Sertraline is cherry-picking studies ; it dosen't actually work.

When I was in university, the teachers talking about Freud as if it was still the gold standart had not retired yet. It wasen't long ago.

Stuff like ''recovered memories from early childhood'' were compleate frauds. Therapists seeding the idea in their patients that their anxieties arond relationships and sex were due to ''trauma in early childhood'' and then doing ''sessions into the trauma'' guiding their patients into fabricating stories about their parents raping them as babies, stories the patients then sincerely believed.

Oh and Psychology will forever have this mark on the discipline : there never was such a thing as ''multiple personality disorders''. It was entirely wished-into existence by therapists suggesting the idea to eaasily influenced patients craving attention, inspired by trying to explain myths of ''channeling spirits'', people throwing violent tantrums wanting to externalize responsability into a fictional ''other person'' inside them, and bullshit like that.

When it made its way into pop-culture, attention-seekers all over the place suddenly had totally different personalities ''taking over''.

It was always play-acting from attention-seekers.

Cognitive behavioral therapy has statistically-significant results.

The ''Women are Wonderful'' effect is well supported ( both men and women have a bias in favor of women and girls ).

Conditioning works. ( Positive reinforcement, negative reinforcement, positive punishment, negative punishment. )

I still recall the (female) teacher confused when I said hitting your dog to make it stop barking is positive punishment ( in the framework of Conditioning ).

Punishment is to extinguish a behavior, whereas positive / negative refer to applying or withdrawing a stimulus. It isn't a moral judgement on that stimulus. Applying pain to stop barking is thus positive punishment.

Exposure therapy against phobias works well too ( most of the time the phobia is gone forever, except social phobia, which has to be managed forever ).

Most of the rest, like ''implicit bias'', is pseudoscience.

The basis for anti-depressants such as Sertraline is based on cherry-picking studies ; it dosen't actually work.

When I was in university, the teachers talking about Freud as if it was still the gold standart had not retired yet. It wasen't long ago.

Stuff like ''recovered memories from early childhood'' were compleate frauds. Therapists seeding the idea in their patients that their anxieties arond relationships and sex were due to ''trauma in early childhood'' and then doing ''sessions into the trauma'' guiding their patients into fabricating stories about their parents raping them as babies, stories the patients then sincerely believed.

Oh and Psychology will forever have this mark on the discipline : there never was such a thing as ''multiple personality disorders''. It was entirely wished-into existence by therapists suggesting the idea to eaasily influenced patients craving attention, inspired by trying to explain myths of ''channeling spirits'', people throwing violent tantrums wanting to externalize responsability into a fictional ''other person'' inside them, and bullshit like that.

When it made its way into pop-culture, attention-seekers all over the place suddenly had totally different personalities ''taking over''.

It was always play-acting from attention-seekers.

Cognitive behavioral therapy has statistically-significant results.

The ''Women are Wonderful'' effect is well supported ( both men and women have a bias in favor of women and girls ).

Conditioning works. ( Positive reinforcement, negative reinforcement, positive punishment, negative punishment. )

I still recall the (female) teacher confused when I said hitting your dog to make it stop barking is positive punishment ( in the framework of Conditioning ).

Punishment is to extinguish a behavior, whereas positive / negative refer to applying or withdrawing a stimulus. It isn't a moral judgement on that stimulus. Applying pain to stop barking is thus positive punishment.

Exposure therapy against phobias works well too ( most of the time the phobia is gone forever, except social phobia, which has to be managed forever ).

Most of the rest, like ''implicit bias'', is pseudoscience.

When I was in university, the teachers talking about Freud as if it was still the gold standart had not retired yet. It wasen't long ago.

Stuff like ''recovered memories from early childhood'' were compleate frauds. Therapists seeding the idea in their patients that their anxieties arond relationships and sex were due to ''trauma in early childhood'' and then doing ''sessions into the trauma'' guiding their patients into fabricating stories about their parents raping them as babies, stories the patients then sincerely believed.

Oh and Psychology will forever have this mark on the discipline : there never was such a thing as ''multiple personality disorders''. It was entirely wished-into existence by therapists suggesting the idea to eaasily influenced patients craving attention, inspired by trying to explain myths of ''channeling spirits'', people throwing violent tantrums wanting to externalize responsability into a fictional ''other person'' inside them, and bullshit like that.

When it made its way into pop-culture, attention-seekers all over the place suddenly had totally different personalities ''taking over''.

It was always play-acting from attention-seekers.