Speaking as someone who would have cut off their little finger for one of these courses if I'd known about them at 17, WTF?
frail and insecure 17-year olds who need professional help.
Psychologists and other like personnel are as expensive or more, and if the problem you're trying to solve is "I can't get a relationship/laid" I would go for the PUA over the psychologist. The psychologist might try to help, but he wouldn't be a domain expert, and he might try to convert the client and convince them they have other, deeper problems when that is irrelevant to them.
All that said, taking a dead end bar or waiting job and/or getting horribly drunk regularly will also work for the majority of people.
frail and insecure 17-year olds who need professional help.
Psychologists and other like personnel are as expensive or more, and if the problem you're trying to solve is "I can't get a relationship/laid" I would go for the PUA over the psychologist. The psychologist might try to help, but he wouldn't be a domain expert, and he might try to convert the client and convince them they have other, deeper problems when that is irrelevant to them.
All that said, taking a dead end bar or waiting job and/or getting horribly drunk regularly will also work for the majority of people.