I’ve come to believe that psychologists have a bit of an inferiority complex.

In the quest to be taken seriously—to prove that we’re “real doctors”—the field moved closer to medicine, and further away from its roots. We embraced diagnostics, lab coats, and the scientific method. We wanted to sit at the same table as MDs.

But in doing so, we distanced ourselves from something essential: the truth that psychology is, at its heart, a deeply holistic practice.