Pasternak criticizes family constellation in the Judiciary: ‘Revictimizes women’

It is something very serious within the Brazilian Judiciary that needs to be fought and publicly debated, because this cannot continue. A practice that forces women to apologize to their attackers is something you really need to take seriously.

Natália Pasternak is co-author of the book “What nonsense!: pseudosciences and other absurdities that don’t deserve to be taken seriously”. In the work, she presents popular practices in Brazil, but which for Pasternak do not have scientific evidence to corroborate their effectiveness in solving problems.

Pasternak says psychoanalysis is pseudoscience

She reinforced her thesis that psychoanalysis is a pseudoscience with a large number of followers. “Psychoanalysis, within science, is considered a pseudoscience because it does not present empirical, scientific evidence of functioning as a clinical practice to treat people in the same way as other aspects of behavioral psychology. So, in this aspect, psychoanalysis, for science , is not considered scientific. Now, saying that people like it, that they see a literary, cultural value, are other aspects that do not fall within the realm of science.”

Natália admitted that clinical studies in the field of psychology are complicated, because it is “difficult to isolate all the variables in the same way that you isolate them when you are testing a medicine”, especially due to “confounding factors”. “Now the interesting thing is that when you take all the clinical studies that have been carried out with psychoanalysis and that have identified these confounding factors, there are some confounding factors that bring precisely this human element, and which then confuse the very effectiveness of psychoanalysis as a method to treat people.”