Mock psychology, mock these people

It also means mocking the psychophysicists who study how the brain processes visual information, the psychopharmacologists who figure out what receptors LSD hits, and the experimental psychologists who run rats through mazes. The behaviorists give pigeons increasingly complex sequences of food and electric shocks. The neuropsychologists perform batteries of tests on people with exotic head injuries, hoping to tease out what each brain region does.

Then there are the extras. The Templeton-Institute-funded psychologists put Buddhist monks in fMRIs to see which brain lobe grows the moment they become enlightened. The Freudian psychologists explain that all your dreams involve unconscious impulses about sex with your mother, and the Jungian psychologists explain that they involve the Divine Feminine engaging in mythopoesis by telling you to have sex with your mother.

The developmental psychologists inform you that you and your friends are Kegan Level Five, while the people who disagree with you are psychologically rigid Kegan Level Four stick-in-the-muds. The evolutionary psychologists write up the Eight Things That Baboons In Estrus Can Teach You About Attracting Hot Women, with Number Six sure to shock you. And somewhere in the background is whatever the heck Karl Friston is doing.