What we have here is a rabbi mixing psychology with mussar, and someone who is criticizing that approach. The responses are “you don’t know enough about psychology to argue,” but in doing so, you’re agreeing with the premise that one should mix psychology with musar! It’s also the argument from authority, which is only convincing if you’re going to appeal to daas torah authority, which he said openly that he does not have. I am not beholden to experts in any field if they make mistakes; I have reasoning and analytic abilities, and if I think I can find mistakes in experts’ work, that doesn’t mean I’m arrogant. For example, insurance companies say that most car accidents happen close to home. To a gemara kup, that’s a dumb statement – most accidents happen close to home…because people are almost always close to home!! Same thing with falls in elderly people. There’s a lot of nonsense that passes for science, and it’s not arrogant to point that out. What rabbi twersky said is not nonsense, but I disagree and I think it is not the approach for the non-addicted/mentally ill.
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