Posted by ItsHowdyDudyTime on November 29, 2002, at 15:05:18
In reply to Psychiatry as a science, posted by Peter S. on November 29, 2002, at 13:33:28
Anybody who tells you there is real science in psychiatry is lying to you. There is no science in psychiatry and psychology is even worse. Psychiatry is a joke. Psychiatrists should be ashamed of themselves. If I was a psychiatrist, I wouldnt even be able to go out in daylight cause Id be so ashamed of myself. I couldnt live with the guilt of knowing I called myself a Medical Doctor, but had no real medical tests, no real medical knowledge to treat severe mental illness.
BTW, in one of Dr. Fuller E. Torrey's books he lambasts private practice psychiatry. He says the "ideal" psychiatry practice is one in which the psychiatrist sees as few psychotics and manics as possible...none if at all possible. And mostly only sees dysthymics and people with "Woody Allen syndrome." These are the folks who fuel the business of psychiatry...those with woody allen syndrome. The people with real deal mental illness are just ignored, shuffled from psychiatrist to psychiatrist because nobody really knows whats wrong with them in a medical sense and nobody really knows how to fix them.
Its sickening...
Howdy Doody
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