The history of psychology is wild.

  • 𝕯𝖎𝖕𝖘𝖍𝖎𝖙@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Carl_Jung

    To be more specific, Jung’s psychology has been characterized as “unscientific” on the following grounds:

    • that some Jungian concepts, such as archetypes and synchronicity, cannot be proven by the scientific method
    • that Jung subscribed to a nineteenth-century notion of evolution that has since been discredited
    • that Jung’s valuation of the mental functions of feeling and intuition on the same level as thinking weakens the attitude of rational objectivity that is essential in scientific research
    • that Jung’s interest in occult traditions, including the pre-scientific European past (third-century Gnosticism and medieval alchemy) and contemporary Asian cultures (Taoism and Tibetan Buddhism) amounts to a glorification of mysticism and irrationality
    • that Jung’s clinical specialization in the treatment of schizophrenia and his own brush with psychosis made him an untrustworthy guide to “ordinary” reality

    https://www.europeanmedical.info/cognitive-therapy/the-unscientific-nature-of-jungs-psychology.html