Note it's an opinion piece. There are many branches of psychology and some of them have pretty solid foundations. Yes, there are still more questions than answe

Note it's an opinion piece. There are many branches of psychology and some of them have pretty solid foundations. Yes, there are still more questions than answers in many areas, but so is in physics once you get to the boundaries of the micro- and macrocosm (although in psychology, I'd argue, we're still very much behind when compared do physics and other hard sciences). At the end of the day, what counts is whether the experiments confirm the theory or not. Practically speaking, in the 'applied-psychology' field of psychotherapy there is at least one method, CBT, that has been battle tested and is widely used for curing various disorders such as fobias. From the scientific point of view, no psychotherapeutic study will ever be classified as scientific as it's inherently impossible to conduct a double-blind study (single-blind is the maximum you can get). Nevertheless, for all intents and purposes, CBT is working and is helping people statistically more than a simple talk with a friend or religious rituals (which also have their efficacy levels). Granted, "For the past few months I felt bad, but now I feel quite good" is not very scientific, but has enormous value for people who are being helped in this way. Instead of stigmatizing psychology as non-science, we should promote approaches that favor reproducibility and proved to be efficient in practice.