Posted by SLS on September 23, 2009, at 5:44:05
In reply to Re: Who Is Peter Breggin?, posted by NKP on September 23, 2009, at 4:45:22
> Some are anti-psychiatry because of the barbaric and pseudo-scientific history of psychiatry.
Yes. This is unfortunate.
> I wonder how society might look back at the state of psychiatry today, fifty years from now.
I think they will smile at how useful our drugs were despite ourselves, and how little we understood of the brain and how these drugs affect it. They will also be sad at how blunt our tools were, with drugs that have troublesome and sometimes dangerous side effects.
As I have read medical journals beginning from the 1970s to date, it is my impression that the study of mental illnesses has become more scientific in its concept and methodology. We also have many more tools to use for investigational and treatment purposes. I don't think we are in the Dark Ages of psychiatry any more. I think our neuroscientists are working as fast and as diligently as they can to produce data and find understanding that will eventually benefit the clinician and his patients.
- Scott
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