Cognitive Psychology is a scientific field. It is different from "Psychology" though, an in fact it repudiates Behavioral Psychology, for instance. Cognitive Ps

Cognitive Psychology is a scientific field. It is different from "Psychology" though, an in fact it repudiates Behavioral Psychology, for instance. Cognitive Psychology is quite distinct from CBT, so criticisms of CBT do not apply to Cognitive Psychology. The claim that the mind does not exist is a throwback to the dark ages of Behaviorism. They made this claim because they sought to make psychology only about things that can be very easily measured and very easily modeled. They claimed that this was "scientific", and that any talk of the mind was "unscientific". It was the Behaviorists, however, who were unscientific. In their goal to elevate Psychology past the unfalsifiable claims of Freudianism, etc., they made a model that was far too simple, and they ignored all the evidence that a more sophisticated model was necessary, and to make matters worse, they actively acted to suppress science done with more sophisticated models (i.e., Cognitive Psychology), holding the field back by decades. As to claiming that you can't photograph or weigh minds, this is a non sequitur. You can't photograph or weigh a computer program either. A computer program is a mathematical entity that can be instantiated on hardware, but is distinct from the hardware and is as non-corporeal as is the number 2. The mind is the software of the brain, and Cognitive Psychology is the field that aims to reverse engineer this computer program. Neuroscience, no doubt, has compatible goals, which is why at MIT Neuroscience and Cognitive Psychology are in the same department. In any case, you do the world no favors by promulgating Behaviorism's ill-conceived notion of science and their specious reasoning.