Psychobabble
Psychobabble
Hannah Spier, MD
How Psychology Became Ideology
33 minutes Posted Jun 4, 2025 at 11:10 am.
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In this episode, I trace how psychology lost its scientific footing and became a tool for ideological conformity. What are the consequences of elevating subjective narratives over objective standards and how did we go from a field that once aspired to be a science to one that now trains activists before clinicians?

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