Posted by SLS on April 6, 2006, at 15:42:48
In reply to Re: Drugs versus Psychotherapy - Backlash?, posted by zazenduck on April 6, 2006, at 12:03:46
> > What's going on?
> ++I don't know :) What do you think?I think investigative psychiatrists are failing to distinguish between people who have a biologically-driven affective disorder from those who do not. It seems that when the selection criteria for an investigation are limited to those people who have a severe and recurrent course, drugs work much better than psychotherapy.
It is unfortunate that there are not yet in use biological tests to aid in diagnosis. Psychiatry really needs to have a more precise algorithm for producing differential diagnoses. Hopefully, this will happen with the new DSM. In the meantime, I think that psychiatrists should use the existing DSM more faithfully. I know a lot of people deride it, but it really does work.
- Scott
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