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Find one of your old psychology textbooks.
Look at it.
Usually around the first or second chapter, often one of the longer chapters in the book, there is an extended discussion of one thing. "Why Psychology is a Science." That, or something similar is often the name of that particular chapter.
Psychology goes overboard trying to prove/justify it's existence as a science. Why is that?
To divorce itself from the dark ages of voodoo, witchcraft, shamanism, and mesmerism ... to make it respectable in the eyes of polite society ...
"We're not fiddling around in the dark with people's emotions here. THIS IS SCIENCE."
So tell me, when was the last time anyone open a textbook of say, Physics or Chemistry, that had a chapter entitled "Why Physicis is a Science."
Psychology is art.
That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.
Oh, and Syc ... I'll see your Bachelors and raise you my Masters ... they are "of Arts" merely as a consequence of the programs we respectively went to. There are schools that offer MS in Clinical Psych as well.
'Wolf
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"Spiritualists and Shamans do the same job psychologists and psyciatrists do, using the same tools, and achieving about the same results." --- E. Fuller Torrey, MD Mind Games
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