Psychiatry can be questioned, with respect to the scientific method and also political implications, like mental policing and drug prescription.

Psychology has a solid scientific foundation, since Wilhelm Wundt and his Leipzig laboratory.

Medicine needs psychology, because many pathologies of humans cannot be attacked by one-dimensional physical treatments, i.e. healing requires deeper approaches, which include behavioral approaches.

________

In this sense, science grows by combination with auxiliary science:

Math by logic (e.g. Gödel, Jv Neumann).

Engineering by technology (e..g. AI tools, but also problem-solving).

Economics by sociology (e.g. political economy, statistics).

Medicine by psychology (e.g. physiology of behavior).

___________

The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena.

Jv Neumann

Hard sciences are successful because they deal with the soft problems; soft sciences are struggling because they deal with the hard problems.

Hv Foerster

_______

Conclusion:

Personally Sinan Ibaguner I do consider psychiatry not as a science,

but as a sort of mental police.

As example (but no more limited to a political entity):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_abuse_of_psychiatry_in_the_Soviet_Union

• as a 74 y/o practicing Psychiatrist my view is a reflection of the world from my eyes and Professional practice. Psychiatry is the practice of medicine which interfaces with our knowledge of biological causes of the syndrome of symptoms in order to rule out diseases rooted in what we can address with the clinical science of physical medicine. Diagnosis rests first on the bedrock of that rule out. Here is where it gets a bit dicey, we have a few medications that treat symptoms. We also have procedures like Trans cranial Magnetics which uses energy fields to change the neurological function. Vagal pace maker stimulation and emerging forms of stimulation. These potentially can re wire the brain. OCD is a good example of changing the circuit.
• We share common ground with psychologists when it comes to the art of matching generally agreed on collections or clusters of symptoms recall syndrome. The DSM 5 is an example of such a guide.
• The medical arts are a combination of arts and science. The goal is to manage the disease process in our patients and occasionally cure them.
• Frederic B Will MD