However, I will give you my comments now. Perhaps you can use them later. Since the summer of 1997, I have been looking at the research evaluating the effectiveness of psychotherapy and validity of clinical judgment. What I have learned is downright appalling. My regard for psychologists could not be any lower.
Reasonable placeboes are as effective as psychotherapy.
Untrained, uneducated, and inexperienced people are as accurate in their clinical judgments as psychologists. The research evaluating psychological assessments of police officer candidates is so bad it is embarrassing. The Rorschach is still widely used even though years of research show that it is completely worthless. Let's leave people outside the field alone and clean up our own act. That, alone, should keep us busy for a couple of decades.