The difference between quackery in psychology and medicine is that there are a lot of competent people in medicine who have been fighting back in recent years. Fighting fire with fire so to speak. Many doctors have put up anti-quackery web sites including Dr. Steven Barrnett with quackwatch.com. However, there's no psychology equivalent. Why is it that we in the profession are afraid and/or uninteresed in educating the public about the garbage that is out there? Postmodernism in psychology has gone too far: every theory and therapy is not equal and it's about time we provided that information to those in need. If not, why spend so much of the government's money researching what works and what doesn't? If clinicians aren't going to use that information then we're wasting our money.
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