Posted by Squiggles on November 5, 2004, at 10:57:39
In reply to Re: Psychiatry should be replaced with neurology » Squiggles, posted by Sad Sara on November 5, 2004, at 10:46:15
> First, I think you mean "psychology" and not "psychiatry", since psychiatry is exactly that... medicating mental disease.
>
Yes, that's true. I speak of "psychiatry" in
the general non-biological sense in which it
is often practiced. Strictly speaking, psychiatrists must be doctors but not all psychiatrists, practice medicine.
> I think you forget one thing, there is a lot of people who has been cured by psychotherapy only. There is even a few shcizofrenic people who has been cured from just psychotherapy (try reading 'Dantes Cure'). Psychotherapy has a lot less side effects than medical treatment.
>Another book - sheesh! Well, i wish it were true;
i have not seen the statistics and i am doubtful.
I think psychotherapy may work for emotional
and social maladjustment.
> But you do have a point. Medical research and medicine in general should have a bigger role in mental disease. It is inacceptable that a nurse can say "get over it and stop feeling sorry for yourself" to someone with a major depression.I think medical investigation of the mind
and body is more objective.
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> On the other hand, it would also be nice if psychotherapy could be accepted of all as an effective therapy for some cases of mental disese, some of which are entirely similar to some that are not curable by psychotherapy only. Psychotherapy is not a therapy without flaws, but are medicine a therapy without flaws.....?If it worked, people would take the horrid
drugs we have as an alternative, nor would
doctors give them.
Squiggles
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