Yet I've never heard of any of their accomplishments they operate in:
Law system: well that's a criminal system (joke)
Mental Health: no cures, still unsafe to be associated with, you could be labelled insane just by being present.
Education: still going under grades of 20 years hence.
Politics: they're as mad as hatters, political correctness, population control and you can't trust anybody, especially from school yards!
These are just some of their fields of endeavour, but where are their results? How does a profession that produces nothing continue to retain, even partially, any influence over others?
We get rid of frauds who steal money from the every day simple Joe, yet turn blind eyes to a blatantly obvious rip off money making machine whose only trophy would be the millions attained in appropriations!
2007-04-18 13:42:53 · 9 answers · asked by David C 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
They actually need to be a science before they can progress further as one. Although they claim to research into the "mind" - they again don't know what a mind actually is as they haven't defined it.
They are actually just another biology department into the brain and should cease fraudulently parading round as something they're not.
2007-04-18 17:14:50 · update #1
No it kills people now doesn't it and destroys people lives and that is all that I have known of it doing come on and don't let's try to make it look good or feel good either, it feels neither to me, but the support I am getting feels real great!
2007-04-18 14:09:57 · answer #1 · answered by Friend 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you're saying that the field has a very long way to go before being as useful as some of the other sciences, then, yes, you are correct. A lot of research needs to be done, and consensus needs to be reached on a variety of issues.
All branches of science went through this process a few centuries ago; psychiatry got a relatively late start, went through a shaky period defining what, exactly, it's for, and had to build on the shifting foundations of other disciplines (biology and physiology). Scientific consensus and wide-spread application doesn't happen in a few decades.
I would not say that modern psychiatry does much for our society as a whole right now. If you would say that psychiatry is too immature to be used as "medicine," that would be fair, too. But I would also add that the potential for great things for the future is there.
2007-04-18 15:45:26 · answer #2 · answered by jtrusnik 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
If you don't think psychiatry is doing any good now, you obviously don't know anyone with serious mental illness. There are a LOT of people who are doing much much better on meds who would have had to live in an institution without the meds, or a group home at a minimum. Not everyone responds to meds, but I can tell you, the meds are all that keep me from hanging myself. You don't know what you are talking about! The docs have to treat patients who are suffering NOW, they can't wait until the science of the brain is better understood. And many, many people get significant relief from the meds. If the meds don't cure you, so what? does aspirin cure your headache?
2007-04-18 19:29:52 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Psychiatrists are medical doctors with a specialty in psychiatry, a branch of medicine that deals with mental, emotional, or behavioral disorders. It is psychology which is not a science.
As with many other fields or professions--law, architecture, clergy, teaching--psychiatry draws both the gifted and those who, no matter how much training they receive, will never be more than quacks with a license.
But even the most gifted cannot help every patient who comes to them, and do not excel, or even perform well, in every area of their field of expertise.
There are, indeed, miracles, but I hesitate to avow that there are miracle workers.
2007-04-25 21:13:34 · answer #4 · answered by Curious George 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, psychiatry is controversial. Their specialty is designing medications that are supposed to relieve mental health diagnosis and yet the side effects of these can be deadly. They are extremely influenced by money from the pharmaceutical companies for pushing their drugs. I will give you two sources one that support them one that doesn't and maybe this will give you more questions or clarity.
2007-04-26 08:05:04 · answer #5 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
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2016-10-03 05:30:27 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What exactly is it that you would like them to do to satisfy you? Do you actually believe that the others you mentionned are any better? I could add to your list a few dozen more. The point is they all think they are productive and can sell themselves. That is business, is it not? Sure it is illusion, but can you show me what isn`t?
2007-04-25 17:47:09 · answer #7 · answered by canron4peace 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Psychiatry is like any other medical discipline, it helps some people, and doesn't help others. Take oncology for example. Some people respond well, others don't. You don't hear people talking about how oncology is of no use. It is all we have to fight cancer. Same goes for psychiatry. It is all we have to fight mental disease.
2007-04-24 07:07:42 · answer #8 · answered by realisminlife 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
"the new priesthood"
2007-04-18 14:01:20 · answer #9 · answered by Duncan w ™ ® 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋