Do today's psychiatric doctors fully understand mental disorders?

Answer 1

Mental processes are very complex. If you read Freud, Jung, Adler and others each has his ideas. The classification of mental disorders is approved by the society, but disagreement over a diagnosis in a specifif patient may disagree. In other words, it is not an exact science.

Answer 2

Psychiatry is probably the most subjective profession.
With the advent of the MRI they have a better handle on it,but it still remains a very nebulous profession.
When a patient visits a GP,it's possible to diagnose most complaints.
If a patient visits a psychiatrist,he may want to blow up the world,yet act like the nicest guy you could imagine.
An x-ray cant look through a lie.

Answer 3

Today`s psychiatrists insist that there is an organic basis for every psychiatric condition . Previously they used to say some psychiatric conditions are totally functional.

Answer 4

You have to experience mental illness to even come close to understanding what it is like.

These guys just think they know what they are talking about. No, they don't. Yes they do!! No, They Don't.

Yeah? Fark You. Don't talk to me.
Shut your pie hole.

No Seriously - don't be offended by this answer, I was only joking, not poking fun.

Answer 5

Not all.
Schizophrenia. The symptoms are known but there is no treatment which can heal this illness.
Also the etiology is not well known

Answer 6

No

They just have methods that control things to a degree and only some things.

Answer 7

No they don’t have a clue. See this video;
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3895596783332855545&q=psychiatry+is+fraude&hl=en

Understanding Psychiatry:

"Psychiatry is not the same as neurology: whereas neurology treats diseases that have their aetiology or their physiology known and proven by medical science, psychiatry treats mental conditions where aetiology and physiology are both unknown and unproven. Thus, mental illness by definition does not have a known pathology.'
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_diseases
 
Psychiatry is not the same as Psychology; Psychology studies the cognitive and subconscious mental processes of man. Psychology doesn’t care about brain structure or physiology. Psychology use therapies based on these studies to improve mans cognitive processes.

Psychiatry treats mental conditions where aetiology and physiology are both unknown and unproven whereas Neurology treats actual brain conditions and whereas Psychology treats the cognitive processes of man. In other words Psychiatry treats theoretical diseases with theoretical treatments.
For example:
Electroconvulsive therapy
Electroconvulsive therapy is a barbaric treatment where brain damage is induced into the patient by passing 70 to 200 volts of electricity through your brain. The electro shock and the heat further produce more brain damage by the effect decomposition and toxicity of dead brain cells. The only benefit of Electroconvulsive therapy is that it produces memory loss and amnesia. So the patient forgets its problems. Electroconvulsive therapy has caused death, coma and disabilities on patients.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2431926628202445879
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2761074183936137060
“About 100,000 people in the USA undergo ECT every year.”
“The most commonly accepted theory is that ECT's mechanism of action is similar to that of antidepressant drugs and involves neurotransmitters, in particular dopaminergic, serotoninergic and noradrenergic systems.”
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroconvulsive_shock_therapy

2nd Example:
Lobotomy is another barbaric treatment developed by Psychiatry in the name of mental health. In this procedure brain damage is induced into the patient by cutting the connections to and from the prefrontal cortex or simply destroying it.
“Even lobotomy's proponents admitted that only one third of the operated patients would improve, while one-third remained the same, and one-third got worst (25 to 30 % is the proportion of spontaneous improvement in many kinds of mental diseases! Thus, a large proportion of the operated patients could have recovered without the lobotomy).
http://www.cerebromente.org.br/n02/historia/lobotomy.htm

3rd Example:
The chemical imbalance theory, this theory alleges that serotonin deficiency in the brain causes depression; but it is impossible to measure the serotonin level in living human beings. So in what bases psychiatrist allege that there is such a thing as chemical imbalance? It is a fact that SSRI drugs (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor) do affect serotonin levels in mice. But there is no evidence that these drugs are actually balancing anything in the human brain. SSRI drugs are simply another type of stimulants. These stimulants are falsely marketed as medicines but their effects are not much different than street stimulants.
In this video two college professor explain exactly what I’m saying in Fox News: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbTqjSfMPKA&mode=related&search=

Also studies have shown that the positive effects of these drugs are negligible.
“A sugar pill was more effective than either St. John’s Wort or the antidepressant Zoloft in providing relief to severely depressed patients, according to a new study that is unlikely to end the debate about the role of the popular supplement in treating the disorder.”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3076831/

Not only that but these drugs are source of increased suicidal tendencies and extreme violence. Even the FDA has labeled these drugs with black box warnings about these tendencies.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dzw2chpoBA&mode=related&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XsJIqewXNY&mode=related&search=
http://medicine.plosjournals.org/archive/15491676/2/12/pdf/10.1371_journal.pmed.0020392-S.pdf

“I spent the first several years of my career doing full-time research on brain serotonin metabolism, but I never saw any convincing evidence that any psychiatric disorder, including depression, results from a deficiency of brain serotonin. In fact, we cannot measure brain serotonin levels in living human beings so there is no way to test this theory. Some neuroscientists would question whether the theory is even viable, since the brain does not function in this way, as a hydraulic system”
Source: Stanford psychiatrist David Burns, winner of the A.E. Bennett Award given by the Society for Biological Psychiatry for his research on serotonin metabolism, when asked about the scientific status of the serotonin theory in 2003.

“Although it is often stated with great confidence that depressed people have a serotonin or norepinephrine deficiency, the evidence actually contradicts these claims”
Professor Emeritus of Neuroscience Elliot Valenstein

http://www.drugawareness.org/
http://www.adhdfraud.org/
http://www.escapefrompsychiatry.org/
http://www.antipsychiatry.org/
http://www.mindfreedom.org/
http://www.endofshock.com/
http://www.stopshrinks.org/
http://www.gwenolsen.com/
http://psychrights.org
http://www.prescriptionsuicide.com/
http://www.breggin.com/
http://www.healthyskepticism.org/
http://www.aspire.us/

Answer 8

i dont think so