Aštra’el
Aštara, Blade of Aštoreth
Licensed mental health professionals such as psychiatrists and psychologists. We would listen to them for the same reason(s) we listen to any expert when they speak on their field of expertise.
Licensed or not, their “field of expertise” carries a tremendous amount of opinion and subjectivity.
I have nothing against psychologists. I understand and approve of their passion for interpreting the human mind... but I personally feel no obligation to just blindly accept all of their interpretations without question- their subjective viewpoints of what is “acceptable” or “normal” and their way of categorizing every pattern that they find “eccentric”, “unusual”, “abnormal” or “unacceptable” into “personality disorders”.