Indeed, therapy / psychology / psychiatry are the closest analogs to modern-day shamanism -- and there's a lot of room for improvement.
Unfortunately, those fields are bound by professional regulations that prevent "experimentation". Which makes the difference between diagnosis & treatment -vs- research pretty clearly defined. The latter has vastly different requirements (eg. double-blind studies, IRB approvals, etc, etc).
I think it's a perfectly reasonable state of affairs to have psychiatrists sit somewhere on the "practice <---> research" spectrum. Don't like that your psychiatrist sits on the practice part of the scale? Find a different provider.
Unfortunately, those fields are bound by professional regulations that prevent "experimentation". Which makes the difference between diagnosis & treatment -vs- research pretty clearly defined. The latter has vastly different requirements (eg. double-blind studies, IRB approvals, etc, etc).
I think it's a perfectly reasonable state of affairs to have psychiatrists sit somewhere on the "practice <---> research" spectrum. Don't like that your psychiatrist sits on the practice part of the scale? Find a different provider.