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Originally Posted by magicalprince
If you believe that the workings of the psyche are completely intangible, then I would see why you would not believe there could be any benefit to psychology/therapy/etc as a vocation. However if you do believe that the mind, and feelings, and sensations and beliefs all work in a somewhat knowable way with some kind of knowable underlying structure that is not entirely random, then I think a natural conclusion of that is that there is theoretically some benefit to having people around who specialize in understanding those workings and bringing about some kind of change/solution in them.
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Most of the insight or advice supplied to me by therapists has been banal stuff, dressed up to look special. Seems the client pays dearly for the occasional insight. And in between is a whole lotta pointless (and expensive) nothingness or pointless and painful drama, that mainly serves therapist needs.
Their training fills their heads with delusions of belonging to a special caste of saviors and savants, when in fact they are just commoners with at best a marginally better understanding of human nature than the rest of us, and at worst a seriously distorted way of relating to the struggles of others.