Why Psychology Cannot Be an Empirical Science

As a psychologist I get what the article is aiming at. But psychology is a science and clinical psychology has made remarkable progress in the way we treat mental health problems.

In the last 50 years clinical psychologists have figured out effective psychological treatments for almost all mental health problems and manualized them so a professional can know or easily look up the best way to treat a disorder.

It took us forever to get here was because psychologists keeps insisting that every single person is so special that we could never compare them to anyone else.

Which simply isn't true.

Most of my depressed patients share similar background and stress in their life. The same is true for patients suffering from social anxiety.

The biggest problem in therapy today is the lack of practitioners, not that we don't know how to treat disorders. We figured that out using empirical psychological research.

I can't understand

We changed the URL from http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs12124-015-9339-x because it doesn't look like the paper is available, to what seems to be the best popular post on it.