== Significant percentage of psychologists having depression and/or suicide ideation ==
[[File:Vox Day.jpg|thumbnail|right|150px|[[Vox Day]] ]]
[[Vox Day]] reported:
{{cquote|This is why therapy [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/wellbeing/health-advice/i-was-an-nhs-psychologist---but-i-suffered-from-depression/ is reliably doomed to failure]:..
In addition to the 46 percent of psychologists who the [[National Health Service|NHS]] reports as being depressed, "out of 800 psychologists sampled, 29 per cent reported suicidal ideation and 4 per cent reported attempting suicide."<ref>[https://archive... Would you go to md/6QMQ5 Confessions of a plumber whose toilet is overflowing? Would you hire a computer programmer who didndepressed psychologist: I't know how to use a computer? Then why would you ever talk to one of these nutjobs m in order to fix whatever mental issues you might be having?... There is very little scientific evidence of the benefits of psychology. I read one recent study which showed that neurotic individuals actually stabilize on their own at a higher rate darker place than those who seek therapy. This is no surprisemy patients] The Telegraph, as the foundations of psychology are literally fiction.February 8, 2016</ref><ref>[httphttps://voxdaywww.blogspottelegraph.comco.uk/2016wellbeing/02health-advice/i-was-an-nhs-psychologist-heal-thyself.html Psychologist, heal thyself-but-i-suffered-from-depression/ Confessions of a depressed psychologist: I'm in a darker place than my patients]The Telegraph, February 8, 2016</ref>}}
== Rosenhan experiment ==
[[File:Center building at Saint Elizabeths, August 23, 2006.jpg|thumbnail|200px|leftright|The main building of St Elizabeths Hospital, located in Washington, D.C., which is now boarded up and abandoned, was one of the sites of the Rosenhan experiment.]]
The website Frontier Psychiatrist wrote:
{{Cquote|The ‘[[Rosenhan experiment]]’ ‘Rosenhan experiment’ is a well known experiment examining the validity of psychiatric diagnosis. It was published in 1975 by David Rosenhan in a paper entitled ‘On being sane in insane places’
The study consisted of two parts. The first involved ‘pseudopatients’ – people who had never had symptoms of serious mental disorder – who, as part of the study, briefly reported auditory hallucinations in order to gain admission to psychiatric hospitals across the United States.
Again, the bottom line is that Christians are not to turn to psychologist for guidance. Primarily because the Word of God instructs us not to and God has given us the ability to counsel one another through His Word.<ref>http://littorch.com/articles/to-whom-shall-we-go/</ref>}}
See also: Vox.com, a [http[liberal]]/[[leftism|left]] leaning website candidly admitted://psycnet.apa.org/index.cfm?fa=buy.optionToBuy&id=1979{{Cquote|Specifically, these nations have been serving as a proving ground for a model called community-31736based care, where non-001 Abstract - Comparative effectiveness of paraprofessional and professional helpers] and [http://wwwspecialist providers or lightly trained laypeople — picture someone like your grandmother, not a doctor — deliver brief mental health interventions in informal settings like homes or parks.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6399757 PubMed citation - Comparative effectiveness of paraprofessional and professional helpers]
Whereas importing Western norms can alienate local populations, who may not view mental health problems as medical, brain-based problems, community-based care has found acceptance because it pays attention to cultural context. Lay counsellors meet patients where they are — both literally, in terms of physical space, and conceptually, in terms of their beliefs about mental health. This model has turned out to be not only cheap to operate and easy to scale, but also incredibly effective for treating issues like depression. So effective, in fact, that the model is now being exported to the US, which stands to learn a lot from these poorer countries.<ref>[https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/23402638/mental-health-psychiatrist-shortage-community-care-africa Poor countries are developing a new paradigm of mental health care. America is taking note.], Vox.com, 2022</ref>}} See also: [http://psycnet.apa.org/index.cfm?fa=buy.optionToBuy&id=1979-31736-001 Abstract - Comparative effectiveness of paraprofessional and professional helpers] and [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6399757 PubMed citation - Comparative effectiveness of paraprofessional and professional helpers] A 1985 paper entitled ''Does professional training make a therapist more effective?'' which was published by the University of Texas reported there was no substantial difference in between the results that laymen and trained psychologists are able to achieve.<ref>http://www.psych.umn.edu/courses/fall07/brunnquelld/psy8542/Session%2007/Berman%20session%207_1986-02211-001.pdf</ref><ref>httphttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3901068</ref>
== Psychiatric quackery revealed by race often unnecessarily causing misdiagnosis ==
The [[Atheism|atheist]] [[Sigmund Freud]] and his [[psychodynamics]] had an enormous influence on psychology which continues to this day, e.g., the concept of an [[unconscious]] mind being able to change and direct behavior. He also posited that people go through developmental stages in which their mind and behavior change as they grow up and grow old, an idea taken up by [[Jean Piaget]]. However, Freud's views on religion as it relates to mental health have been shown to be demonstrably false (See: [[Atheism and health#Sigmund Freud's view of religion|Sigmund Freud's view of religion]] and [[Atheism and health]]).
The atheist [[Ivan Pavlov]]'s work on [[classical conditioning]] was pivotal. It became combined with the concepts developed in functionalism and the field of [[behavioral psychology]] was born (see [[B.F. Skinner]]), and it was hoped that psychology could became a [[hard science]] like physics with mathematical rigor.
Skinner also [[operant conditioning|thought]] that all of human behavior was a function of conditioning and instrumental learning.
During the 1960s several developments altered the course of psychological research. Several experiments had begin turning up anomalous results. One of the most famous is the [[Garcia effect]] where an animal that is exposed to a novel food and then made sick instantly learns to no longer desire that food.
[[Noam Chomsky]] showed that language acquisition follows seemingly innate rules. Thus [[cognitive psychology]] was born as a reaction against behaviorism. Cognitive psychologist attempted to understand the "[[black box]]" of the mind through computational analysis, modeling and rigorous experimentation. Psychology has continued to divorce itself from the strict empiricism of behaviouralism through the general endorsement of neuropsychological research. Neuropsychological research, typically conducted with fMRI scans, is not without controversy with prominent psychologists claiming that the interpretation of the data far outstrips its explanatory power. A similar complaint is often levelled against evolutionary psychology by prominent biologists who note that most evolutionary interpretations of psychological phenomena are necessarily post hoc and consequently untestable. It seems noteworthy that as psychology continues to grow and mature as a discipline it becomes increasingly mired in controversy.
[[Stanley Milgram]]'s [[Milgram experiment|research on obedience to authority]] demonstrated that normal individuals would obey an authority figure and endanger the health and life of other people. This was also linked to [[Philip Zimbardo]]'s work on the [[Stanford prison experiment]] demonstrating the ability for college students to quickly turn into torturers.
=== Donald Ewen Cameron, CIA and abusive psychological/psychiatry techniques ===
Infogalactic's article on Don Ewen Cameron states:
{{Cquote|Donald Ewen Cameron (24 December 1901 – 8 September 1967) — known as D. Ewen Cameron or Ewen Cameron — was a Scottish-born psychiatrist who served as President of the Canadian Psychiatric Association, American (1952–1953) and World Psychiatric Associations, the American Psychopathological Association and the Society of Biological Psychiatry during the 1950s. Notwithstanding his high professional reputation, he has been criticized for his administration, without informed consent, of disproportionately intense electroshock therapy and experimental drugs, including LSD, which rendered some patients permanently comatose. Some of this work took place in the context of the [[Project MKUltra|MKUltra]] mind control program.<ref>[https://infogalactic.com/info/Donald_Ewen_Cameron Don Ewen Cameron]</ref>}}
Cameron is the subject of Stephen Bennett's documentary film Eminent Monsters (2020), which was funded by BBC Scotland and Creative Scotland.
[[Project MKUltra]] (also called Project MK-Ultra) was a top-secret illegal [[CIA]] program during the Cold War, from the early 1950s until 1973, in an effort to develop mind-control technology.<ref>Jo Thomas (3 Sep 1977). "C.I.A Says It Found More Secret Papers on Behavior Control: Senate Panel Puts Off Hearing to Study Data Dozen Witnesses Said To Have Misled Inquiry C.I.A. Tells Of Finding Secret Data". New York Times.</ref> MKUltra research took place at 80 institutions across the United States and Canada, including colleges, universities, hospitals, and prisons.<ref>Horrock, Nicholas M. (4 Aug 1977). "80 Institutions Used in C.I.A. Mind Studies: Admiral Turner Tells Senators of Behavior Control Research Bars Drug Testing Now". New York Times.</ref> It made use of several forms of psychological torture, including abuse, drugs, isolation, and hypnotism, sometimes using unwitting subjects. When the Church Committee began investigations, CIA director Richard Helms ordered all files destroyed.<ref>"An Interview with Richard Helms". Central Intelligence Agency. 2007-05-08. Retrieved 2008-0</ref> All currently known information on MKUltra is based on eyewitness interviews and the relatively small number of files that survived, due to being accidentally filed in the wrong location.
For more information, please see: [https://archive.md/bYb3D#selection-831.0-847.13 25 Years of Nightmares] by By David Remnick, ''Washington Post'', July 28, 1985
== Fields of Psychology ==