15/04/2026
It is like religion of the past, all kinds of disciplines (specifically psychology and economics) have come to mimic the natural sciences, through the pretence of being able to measure the immeasurable. During most of the 20th-century, both psychiatry and psychology struggled to be taken seriously by rest of the scientific community. They were dismissed because the workings of the mind and emotional life was not graspable by the protocols of positivist science. Then in the second half of the last century, both psychiatry and psychology managed to refashion themselves into a semblance of proper science. To be considered a science you have to produce data, you have to count things and produce numbers. For this reason, both turned away from engaging with the workings of the intangible internal psychological world, and fixed their gaze on the surface of things, on the visible and tangible, on the observable and measurable (Kutchins and Kirk, 2001; Moncrieff, 2011; Whitaker, 2010).
Is CBT all it claims to be? The Cognitive Behavioural Tsunami: Managerialism, Politics, and the Corruptions of Science provides a powerful critique of CBT?s understanding of human suffering, as well as the apparent scientific basis underlying it. The book argues that CBT psychology has fetishized .....
