Do you believe Psychiatry is scientific? If so why? If not what do you think might be a better alternative?

Question

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http://home.earthlink.net/~people-of-courage/lawsandrights

I would like you to look at these sites before you answer this, search them through thoroughly. Then answer.

I don't have to. If you want to have any correct answer you do, this shows you do not know what you are talking about.

This is easy! Easy for you to be ignorant. This is what those that believe in psychiatry are like and people believe in this quackery for that reason, because of people that don't "have" to educate themselves before they spout the propaganda!

Psychiatry is in bed with pharma to legally push mind altering addictive and harmful street drugs, much like LSD the first psychiatric drug was used and sold as a treatment untill it wasn't.

FDA Approval of psychotropic medications changes with the truth, they denounce what they have said and take them off the market or put black box warnings on them.

Billions of dollars in capitalism and greed ensure psychiatry legally pushes these drugs. Not all lawyers are poor until they dare to tell the truth and get it out to the public. That is why many lawyers won't.

"Is psychiatry scientific? Yes, because it is a field of medicine, as opposed to psychology, which is a discipline."

I liked your answer it was partially correct. This is why people "believe" that it is scientific because they believe that it is a medical doctor doing it, but psychiatry is not scientific doctor or not, it is quackery and snake oil. Neurologists are the only doctors that actually understand about true brain diseases, but they are beginning to mix it with psychiatry and that seems unethical to me. They still do not know enough about true and actual brain diseases to cure them, and operations must be limited to serious and actual brain diseases like cancer that would take ones life without it. It must not become a routinely available procedure to operate on one to change behaviors because there is no exact way to know exactly what behaviors will be changed or influenced.

"Is psychiatry scientific? Yes, because it is a field of medicine, as opposed to psychology, which is a discipline."

I liked your answer it was partially correct. This is why people "believe" that it is scientific because they believe that it is a medical doctor doing it, but psychiatry is not scientific doctor or not, it is quackery and snake oil. Neurologists are the only doctors that actually understand about true brain diseases, but they are beginning to mix it with psychiatry and that seems unethical to me. They still do not know enough about true and actual brain diseases to cure them, and operations must be limited to serious and actual brain diseases like cancer that would take ones life without it. It must not become a routinely available procedure to operate on one to change behaviors because there is no exact way to know exactly what behaviors will be changed or influenced.

Answer 1

studies of humans and human behavior can never be an exact science.
just look at the controversy determining retardation or mental illness when the death penalty is given and appeals are made.

Answer 2

Is psychiatry scientific? Yes, because it is a field of medicine, as opposed to psychology, which is a discipline.

A Psychiatrist is a Medical Doctor first and foremost;
a "head-shrinker" second.
All the psychologists I've run into, are an amalgamation of friend, counselor, philosophy teacher and "pastorial minister" (pick a job & stick with it please!).

Your reference sites are true, in the respect that the Drug Corporations have too much pull and say when it comes to the F.D.A., but it was Congress that made it that way,

Why? There are more registered Drug Lobbyists in Washington, D.C. than there are Congressmen and Senators put together.

This is why Holostics aren't recognized by "the Establishment", or Medical Marijuana is legal for medical purposes (like it is in... Russia?).
It is the "Lossof" syndrome: loss of profits for the stockholders, loss of control over our free will (when Bush Jr. signed the Medicare drug bill a few years ago, there were NO provisions for bidding on or haggling over the price),
simply, the loss of choice.

Answer 3

I don't have to look at those websites. This is easy! Psychiatry concerns itself with a sub-area known as psychopharmacology. FDA Approval of psychotropic medications is as scientific an endeavor as you can imagine. Billions of dollars are at stake. The results are scrutinized for decades and decades. In the case of psychiatry, capitalism ensures science. When the hungry lawyers file thier suits, the FDA and pharmaceutical giants, **have** to have science in thier corner.

Answer 4

Psychiatry do not act according to a scientific method.

On the contrary it acts against the science.

Answer 5

Thank you for the link.
i'm collecting them tham and doing a data base of all anti Psych sites. I didn't had that one.

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 6

Wel it is a good start from chains and punishments.