Posted by Christ_empowered on August 24, 2013, at 12:35:45
In reply to And the toyotas they drove in on!, posted by HomelyCygnet on August 24, 2013, at 11:18:26
yeah...younger shrinks (particularly male ones) are the worst. The ones I've encountered are decidedly anti-intellectual, unimaginative, refuse to use the "bio-psycho-social" model, and lack any real understanding of how to skillfully use meds to help people out. I guess they rely on Medscape and hot drug reps. I dunno.
My current shrink was trained in Europe. She's old school, public health, "we focus on severe mental illness." She takes time to talk to me, though, and I find her intriguing. Meds--yes, but...there's more...
...plus, she doesn't play the "biochemical imbalance" game with me. She's pretty straight forward. You need...tranquilizer, cuz you get agitated, anticonvulsant....cuz that tranquilizer just ain't enough....and a low-dose, PRN sedative...to stay calm.
Still, I'd like to stop going. Putting people into bio-psycho-social perspective can help the person/patient, but...at the end of the day...psychiatry screws people. Always has. Undoubtedly, there have been better shrinks and better times in which to be both a shrink and a patient. Unfortunately for me, 21st American psychiatry pretty much has a "take your pills and shut the hell up" approach to mental health that I can't tolerate. Maybe its better this way, you know? Better to see what psychiatry really is, at its core--control, fear, force, coercion-- and get the hell out as soon as I am able than to keep being a patient because I keep having good experiences. Or not...
...anyway, I like your post. Thanks.
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