brockw69

Psychology is far more than just therapy. As with the field of biology, biology being a word used to describe a broad range of specialist fields of biology such as marine biology, something a MD is hardly likely to have studied. Psychology is a word used to describe the study of human behaviour in a broad range of application, including cognitive thought process; making up psycho metric puzzles for application in a particular area; forensic psychology and the list goes on. In Australian Universities, psychology falls under the faculty of art. I'd have to research to ensure my accuracy, however, I am not sure of the complete list of academia under the faculty of art. I still stand by my original statement.

I guess then that one is to ask ones self, "What is science?" , then if it fits the bill, it is a science. I stand by my statement that Psychology is an art. The examples used above are merely examples of the art of psychology in practice. Manipulation may well be a process used, hardly a science though. To say that psychology is not a science yet it does use scientific methods is a very simple statement, I fail to see what is not to be understood. When I set about researching this topic, I came across the term pure science and applied science. As with the MD not being a scientist, they have a broad understanding of biology but more specifically the anatomy and physiology of the human body. It is largely up to the individual as to wether or not one wants to call any specific area of study a science or not.

Psychology is an art, it falls under the faculty of art. Scientific methods are employed in the art of psychology. To go a step further, I shall state that even psychiatry is a non science. Despite the fact that psychiatrists learn a lot about the function of the brain, I'd be very surprised if anyone could give me an example of a psychiatrist curing any of their patients using current psychiatric methods. Then we can look at the famous "Thud Experiment", one of two famous experiments that have debunked psychiatry. I have not heard of any new innovations in psychology or psychiatry. Yes, there have been many new drugs come onto the market, yet all the antipsychotic drugs still aim at and work in much the same way as the 1st antipsychotic. Psycho therapy has not really evolved very much either. It basically involves input from the patient and advice from the therapist[when speaking about therapy]. Psychology is an art and psychology uses scientific methods and standards in performing the art yet psychology is not a science in an of itself.