“Which, for parents who care, is nothing more than a desire to self-diagnose.”
Is she looking to do an MD? Are you saying that she has psychological problems?
Maybe you are being too hard on her.
No, she sat in on one of my neice’s college psychology courses and decided that that’s what she wanted to do.
Psychology is a very seductive major (unlike Psychiatry which requires an MD) precisely because it doesn’t require a lot of nasty stuff like math and science.
Most (90% last survey I saw?) psychologists are lefties who went into it because their parents got divorced and they want to understand “the meaning of life”.
Sorry, but the meaning of life doesn’t come out of reading Freud or Marcuse...