Posted by Quintal on January 19, 2007, at 11:16:28
In reply to Re: Too many pills - too little TIME, posted by ronaldo on January 19, 2007, at 9:23:50
>Yet many professionals claim that the mental health movement is not a legitimate medical or scientific endeavor, let alone a civil rights movement, but a political ideology of intolerance and inhumanity. Numerous psychiatrists and psychologists have examined the psychiatric research literature and found it to range from smoke and mirrors to quackery.
I expressed a similar sentiment in an earlier post:
http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20061129/msgs/709925.html
>If not, let us insist that the American Medical Association (or similar body) form a panel of objective, non-psychiatric scientists, without any ties to drug companies, to examine whether psychiatry should continue as a medical specialty or if it should join the historical ranks of alchemy, astrology and phrenology as a pseudoscience.
I've often thought the phrase 'psychopharmacological alchemy' was an apt description of the way people experiment with combining psychiatric drugs today - seemingly in an attempt to find the holy grail of psychiatry; that elusive magical elixir for eternal stability, contentment and happiness.
I know it seems sad, bizarre, even sick and disturbed behaviour to people outside psychiatric care and some within it are clearly expressing concern.
Q
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