If therapists were professionals, they would respond to their professional societies by abandoning discredited therapeutic methods. But they won't do this. Asperger Syndrome (AS) caused an epidemic of phony diagnoses, after which the professional societies responded by voting AS out of the new DSM, but therapists are ignoring them and continuing to diagnose and "treat" AS, more than a year after the handwriting appeared on the wall.
It's the same with Recovered Memory Therapy -- therapists are free to offer it to their clients, more than a decade after this phony therapy created what insiders call a "debacle" and a huge decline in public trust in therapy as a profession.
People who ignore their professional societies aren't professionals.
> You go to a doctor because you do not understand your body, and either have a problem now or wish to avoid problems later by changing your behavior. You go to a therapist because you do not understand your unconscious, and either have a problem now or wish to avoid problems later by changing your behavior.
Your effort to compare therapy to sciences like modern medicine has been contradicted by the NIMH, which recently ruled that the DSM, therapy's "bible", may no longer be used as the basis for scientific research proposals, for the simple reason that it has no scientific content:
http://news.sciencemag.org/2013/05/nimh-wont-follow-psychiat...
Therapy is not a science, and it is not a profession. Therapy is to modern times what an aging aunt on a porch swing was to an earlier time -- a way to derive benefit from ordinary conversation. Notwithstanding the benefit people derive from therapy, all this talk about it being a scientific profession is nonsense, something now widely recognized.