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gulliver

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24. Your point about the importance of social support...

Reply to Sympthsical (Reply #20)

Tue Mar 31, 2026, 04:02 PM

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...is well taken. One issue I have with the psychology industry is that it can supplant social support. The social support from friends, parents, teachers, etc., comes to seem "unprofessional." Even laws can come into play based on the idea that the industry "knows best." There's a simultaneous misconstrual of how science works (contingently, modestly) combined with "worship and preaching of science" (confident, but also often slipshod, desperate, or commercial).

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