Posted by zeugma on January 2, 2006, at 17:41:46
In reply to Psychiatrist's opinion on the state of psychiatry, posted by Phil on January 2, 2006, at 16:04:39
All medicine rests on the premise that disease is a manifestation of diseased tissue. Hepatitis comes down to an inflamed liver, while lung tissue infiltrated with pneumococcus causes pneumonia. Every medical student learns this principle. Where, though, is the diseased tissue in psychopathological conditions?>>
I can't resist, I've got a poem on this topic and such will be my reply:
I.
My name is ---, can they call me a quack?
Two can join in this game of attack:Look at the quacks over there who prescribe:
Mystical science, and a corporate bribe.A corrupted science, in serotonergetics immersed:
All that means is it’s well reimbursed.II
But let’s study the science. Chemistry awry?
If the chemicals were off, you would surely die.Serotonin and dopamine are two of a kind:
MDMA works on them both, I find.Cancer proliferates; depression makes you mope;
Is moping visible under a microscope?I went to med school and learned about diseases;
Diseases are contagious; go schizo from sneezes?Diseases are things that any fool can see,
Not ‘ideas of reference’ that send you up a tree.Disease kills you; mental illness proves
To be nothing other than what society disapproves.
III.
Now look at history; history, our friend,
Showing that panaceas are likely a criminal blend.First was Coca-Cola; the unwitting soda jerk
Made twenty cokeheads in a morning’s work.Imagine, hapless jerk, how many you destroyed!
But I cannot blame you; only menially employed,You did not pretend to cure, nor did you know
the chemical structure of what you made to flow.Your corporate employers were soon brought in line;
Corporations change anything under threat of a fine.Cocaine was removed from bottles of Coke,
And the Prozac of the day became lines and smoke.Cocaine and meth? since there’s a War on Drugs,
Zoloft is the meth of the physician thugs.Who’s the quack? Freud on cocaine,
Or the Freud who listened without blaming your brain?But I’m better than Freud, because love heals the soul:
I am not stingy with the love that I dole.Any quack prescribes a miracle cure;
Prozac or placebo? Only quacks are sure.IV.
Talk, not toxins; rather than chemicals, care;
Neurotransmission? not to be meddled with; only fools dare.You panic? Are shy? Can’t leave the house?
Hate yourself? See visions? Obsessed with your spouse?These are troubles of living, and you are not living well,
And need guidance, not pills, to lead you from hell.To accomplish this end, I don’t dash off a scrawl;
Ask for a check behind an emotional wall;They can talk all they like about neurotransmission,
Pharmaceutical stooges against a caring physician.
V.I am the way to uplift, human affirmation
I talk therapeutics, not molecular filiationAnd it’s in your human spirit that the flaw does lie,
And you will see that, and the flaw will die.I will not ignore you then hand out samples,
You’ll be better soon if you follow my example.
poster:zeugma
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