This is a stupid argument. The real argument should be, Xander, psychology and psychiatry are sciences you fuckwit. Psychiatry has a lot of bad stories, because as a new medical field it is still working out the kinks. There have been aspects of psychiatry that are like amputations during the American civil war, but psychiatry as a whole is not bad. A lot of the bad results from psychiatry are caused by our society's obsession with that new super bad health issue and our hypochondriac nature. Take for example, gluten allergies that were almost completely non-existent until two or three years ago. When you start mixing this behavior with psychoactive drugs, like with our generation's ADHD hysteria, you get bad results. Especially when many of the people subjected to it are children who don't know anything other than what their teachers, parents, and friends tell them. That said, there are issues that can only be fixed with psychiatry. The most obvious example is depression, which has been shown by research to stem not from environmental emotional strain but from imbalances in brain chemistry. You cannot make an actually depressed person feel lastingly better by talking it out with them, they need medicine to fix their brain chemistry. Also note, no one is going to make a documentary of all the times psychiatry has worked. No, that's not interesting. That's not controversial. No one cares if the status quo matches our perceptions of the status quo. Instead, they're going to make documentaries on all the times psychiatry has fucked up. That's interesting. That's controversial. That's the status quo not matching our perceptions of the status quo.
Psychology meanwhile has been a science much longer than psychiatry and has even more research and data behind it. Because psychology has underlying principles we still have not figured out how to determine or test, there are still significant differences between psychologists. That's why you'll find that psychotherapists often have very different approaches to patients. This also stems from there being multiple approaches to every problem in every field. This is the only way I can imagine you denying that psychology is a science, but other scientists disagree too, all the time. Theoretical physicists don't agree on string theory or various aspects of quantum mechanics, mathematicians can't agree on the value of 0^0, engineers (not scientists, but close enough) don't agree on the feasibility of a hyperloop.
This is the Journal of Applied Psychology. In it you will find scientific studies conducted by scientists known as psychologists. Science.
This is the American Journal of Psychiatry. In it you will find scientific studies conducted by scientists known as psychiatrists. Science.
Also, congratulations Xander, this is the most I've ever typed for something serious in this community.
