26% of social psychology is reproducible

Roughly 50% of cognitive psychology is reproducible

Worse or barely as good as a coin toss

Here's a psychiatrist arguing Americans have become addicted to therapy and lost their nerve for normal irrational aspects of reality: https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2024/02/how-we-...

Therapy is just the new religion; used to ostracize and denigrate and demonize people who don't confess their sins to a therapist and receive absolution

It's another "intelligent design" moment; traditional values wrapped in atheist language as religious language has fallen out of favor

Keep in mind therapists are human meat suits with bills and rent to pay.

It's just more capitalism. You're paying for a friendly ear because you have no friends