Antipsychology

Anti-psychology describes the resistance, suspicion, and hostility that some people feel towards psychological treatment. It is not a wholly accurate term, as critics tend to focus on psychological intervention in cases of mental illness rather than on psychology as a science, which covers a broad and diverse spectrum of topics. Some critics of psychology deny that mental illness exists at all, arguing that psychology aims to pathologise perfectly normal variations in human behaviour; whereas others accept the existence of mental illness but state that current mainstream psychological interventions are ineffective at best and unethical at worse.

'Anti-psychology' may also be used as a term to describe objections made by religious people to the incorporation of psychological tenets and techniques into religious practice.