Talk therapy is a different case than research social psychology. I take talk therapy to be a kind of practical skill in regulating the emotions of another hum

Talk therapy is a different case than research social psychology. I take talk therapy to be a kind of practical skill in regulating the emotions of another human being through narrative & interpersonal contact. That requires a lot of practical training, and is in fact, mostly practical training + high empathy. Research social psychology does not inform this at all, being a totally different area. "Psychoanalytical research" is even more BS than social psychology, but that's rather pre-advertised. And somewhat defensible as providing a "training ground" for learning the practice of talk-therapy rather than any kind of genuine explanatory framework.