Robert Musil asks why chiropractery is not an accepted medical practice, but psychoanalysis is.

It isn't.

Psychiatrists are MD's but just about anyone can become a psychologist, especially since your work can be grounded in utter nonsense but still garner you a Pd.D.

The medical community sees pshrinks as a modern alternative to such traditional counselors as clergy in an age where can unappealing or outright repugnant to a secular culture.

This neglects the fact that many pshrinks are themselves just plain nuts. Without the help of such we would never have most of the modern satanic cult abuse cases or recovered memory idiocies.

He was referring to the fact that health insurance will pay for the latter, but not the former.

Francis Crick once likened psychoanalysis to "mental bleeding" as if from treatment according to the four humors theory of medicine.