>You have to consider that the field faces significant practical challenges when it comes to applying the scientific method. Nevertheless, I wouldn't be so quic

>You have to consider that the field faces significant practical challenges when it comes to applying the scientific method. Nevertheless, I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss it, cognitive behavioral therapy does show results on par with commonly prescribed medications. Yet any sort of talk therapy is almost as good as CBT, and psychiatric medications lose effectiveness over years since their development. The former leads me to suspect that the therapy isn't the point, it's a psychological connection with one's therapist. The latter leads me to suspect that most psychiatric medication isn't "fixing the problem" so much as re-rolling a few stats such that the user can feel different for a bit, and hopefully thereby pull up from their metaphorical depressive nosedive.