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I have a more cynical view: it's a field that almost exclusively deals in the creation and enforcement of behavioral norms; entirely political, verging on religious in its continual reification of theory-theory. I don't know what that has to do with the West, though.

Behaviorism is the only real psychology.

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Exactly, the west part is that we tend to think that everything in the west is the whole world or whole field, when Asia is light years ahead in this case in that they focus on the underlining logic mathematically.

What's your basis for this view? Any good reads you can recommend?

The core issue is that you need to establish a norm, but without an absolute point of reference such as enlightenment it’s like trying to walk strait in a dessert which is not possible. But if you bring this point up of going in circles they act just like Plato describes in his Cave Alegory. So it’s not a new issue. I don’t know if anyone has written a book specifically about psychology being a faux science, like eugenics in a way, but someone should.

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