psychoanalysis

>>1478101
it was psychology's first step to becoming a true modelistic science, in the beginning at least. after the main focus became therapy this changed. then behaviorism came along and made psychology into the pseudoscience it is today, a misstep from which it has only slowly been recovering since the 1990s.

>>1478101
The entire field of psychology is a pseudoscience. When they're right it's by complete accident and they have no cohesive or usable predictive model. Neurology is the chemistry to psychology's alchemy.

>>1478192
>Neurology is the chemistry to psychology's alchemy
except neurology doesn't say anything of interest about the psyche, only about brain mechanisms. trying to bridge the gap and ascribing certain functions of the brain to badly outlined, commonsensical "psychological" states it becomes just as much a pseudoscience as contemporary mainstream psychology for the exact same reasons: trying to mimic the "scientific method" but failing miserably at matching it to the object of study.

>>1478210
>I don't know what a neurotransmitter is

>>1478101

Psychoanalysis is purely PRACTICAL

Freud himself stated vehemently his theories were purely for practical therapeutical purposes and that they shouldnt be taken as philosophical statements.

This is VERY important to understand to see how everything went to shit from Freud.

Freud was not a freudian, just like Plato was not platonic or Marx a marxist.

>>1478177
But behaviorism is objectively observable.