I spent my first 2 years in college as a physics major so when I went off to grad school in clinical psych and one of my professors went on and on about psychology as a science, I disagreed. I knew science and I knew clinical psychology was no science. That bit of boldness earned a verbal slap from him in which he told me that I lacked identity as a psychologist.
There have been many times since that day some 38 years ago when I have been well aware that psychologists as a group are not my crowd, despite the fact that all three of my degrees are in that very field. This was brought home again for me in recent days as I have read about the role some psychologists have played in the development of the torture techniques employed in the so-called war on terrorism. Salon has two good pieces about this issue. I was upset a couple of years ago when the APA task force decided that it was ethical for psychologists to advise the military and other agencies to assist in developing these techniques and grateful that I was not a member.
Sickening. Sickening that it was not seen to be unethical on the face of the whole thing.