By: Hemo_jr
Psychiatry is a pseudo-scientific discipline that has continually rejected scientific methods over the years. In fact, calling it a discipline is a misnomer embedded with irony. There were hopes that...
View ArticleBy: scribbler
(Flipping through pages) You are both crazy! (flipping through more) Damn! So am I! ;-)
View ArticleBy: Hominid
Psychiatry is clinical medicine; clinical medicine is technology, not science. The DSM has always been an amalgam of opinions having more to do with pop culture and politics than with scientific...
View ArticleBy: Martin Forde
Hemo_jr isn’t right at all. He’s taking a very specific aspect of Fruedian psychoanalysis and generalizing to the entire field of psychiatry. It’s moronic. Yes, the personality disorders are a mess,...
View ArticleBy: Martin Forde
Hence, the reason these scientists resigned from the DSM-V workgroup is because APA is deciding to keep the most idiotic aspects of the DSM-IV which aren’t backed by research.
View ArticleBy: willys36
“The proposal displays a truly stunning disregard for evidence.” That pretty well sums up everything the government does to us. Remember, it’s all George Bush’s fault.
View ArticleBy: Kaviani
@ Martin Forde: peppered with cherry picked data, primed subjects, etc. http://www.nature.com/news/the-data-detective-1.10937
View ArticleBy: Martin Forde
@Kaviani “I doubt that fabrication is any worse in psychology than in other fields.” and?
View ArticleBy: Phil S.
The very concept that a questionnaire can be used as the primary tool in diagnosis is a total joke and always has been. The human body is simply too complex for such a method to work reliably. The...
View ArticleBy: Phil S.
Serotonin and other chemicals present in the brain and body are being studied by other fields. Psychiatry does nothing to inform or teach it’s members about how any of this chemistry they work with...
View ArticleBy: Phil S.
Most disturbing of all is how unaware the average person is as to the number and level of harm being perpetrated by this profession. Many medications cause the very illnesses they claim to treat and...
View ArticleBy: Phil S.
If psychiatry was required to take the Hippocratic oath to heart their profession would likely end. This field gets by with everything they do because of the few they may “accidentally” help, which...
View ArticleBy: Eric Dutton
“Psychiatry is a pseudo-scientific discipline that has continually rejected scientific methods over the years. ” You’ll notice that the ones who are raising the fuss in this story are a psychologist...
View ArticleBy: adrian serb
Indeed,psychiatry is not science,is also not medicine and not even something inbetween. They give a diagnostic based on “observation” (during the first 45 minutes initial visit) and on the patient’s...
View ArticleBy: Phil S.
The real underlying reason why psychiatry can not provide useable clinical evidence to back up their claims is because so many of those claims are distortions of what is actually real. There will never...
View ArticleBy: Phil S.
One has to wonder if the drug companies goal in backing this profession is to make themselves out to look like a crack dealing operation. With children across the world selling and trading in these so...
View ArticleBy: Alex S
As the husband of someone with PTSD and major depression i will defend psyciatrists (as apposed to psyciatry) as much as i can, for my wife would not be alive without it. Is it Perfect? Hell no; Is is...
View ArticleBy: Geack
Alex, Chances are the people making the most aggressive attacks on psychiatry actually believe they DO have some alternative. The fact that these “alternatives” typically rest on even lesser evidence...
View ArticleBy: Phil S.
The very concept that a questionnaire can be used as the primary tool in diagnosis is a total joke and always has been. The human body is simply too complex for such a method to work reliably. The...
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