Psychiatry

Psychiatric treatment has long been considered to be at best, of dubious benefit to people suffering from mental problems, many learned people hold this view and with good reason.

Unlike other medical disciplines, psychiatry is really non-scientific, e.g.

• There are no medical tests to determine mental illness of any kind.
• No psychiatrist can claim to have “cured” a patient – not one.
• Some psychiatric drugs have proven to be downright dangerous to physical health.
• The Freudian and Jungian basis for psychiatry is seriously flawed; the case sample sizes used were far too small to be statistically and/or scientifically significant.

At the annual APA conference a number of interviewed psychiatrists admitted all of the above.

In spite of this, the profession generates over $100 billion a year in the USA alone, so practitioners will not be going away any time soon!

As yet, I don’t have a well-founded theory as to why people give so much credence to psychiatry but it must at least be partly due to the respect given (rightly) to the medical profession as a whole.

I will write further on this subject once I’ve done more research.