Posted by Tabitha on July 29, 2016, at 13:58:26
In reply to Re: Fact Checking Some Anti-Psychiatry Claims, posted by Hello321 on July 28, 2016, at 22:39:45
> Ive never understood the pro- psychiatry movement. Youre fighting for the winning team. Guys like Peter Breggin obviously wont be succeeding in having your meds taken away any time soon.
People like P.B. may not win in the larger sense, but they can do a lot of damage.
I don't consider myself as pro-psychiatry. I think psychiatry is one of the weaker branches of medicine at this point. Barely out of the Freudian origins, completely cordoned off from other medical specialties (my GP and pdoc can't even exchange records.) Relying on subjective evaluations of symptoms and response to treatments. Diagnoses that change with changing social morals.
I hope psychiatry will eventually disappear, replaced by treatments that come from neuroscience research. May not happen in my lifetime though.
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