Psychiatry School

On Saturday, 20/September, the fourteenth World Congress of Psychiatry opens its doors in Prague, Chech Republic. Their motto is "Science and Humanism: For a person-centered psychiatry" What a shameless lie!

First, psychiatry is not a science. For what is science? Here are a few definitions:

"A systematically organized body of knowledge on a subject"
"The study of the physical world and natural phenomena, especially by using systematic observation and experiment"
"The state of knowledge: knowledge, as opposed to ignorance or misunderstanding"
"Knowledge or a system of knowledge covering general truths or the operation of general laws especially as obtained and tested through scientific method"

How does this apply to psychiatry?

"In 1886, Emil Kraepelin, the undisputed founder of modern psychiatry as a medical specialty and Sciences, said:" Our science has not reached a consensus on even its most fundamental principles, much less on appropriate ends or the means to those ends. "Eighty years later, the Encyclopedia American Handbook of Psychiatry opened with this statement:" Perhaps no other area of human activity is so ... difficult to define than that of psychiatry. "Andrew Lakoff Professor of Sociology at the University of California at San Diego, nodding casually: "Two centuries after its invention, diseases of psychiatry have no known cause or definitive treatment. "

Theodor Meynert, an Austrian psychiatrist stated in his 1984 book "The reader will find no other definition of" psychiatry "in this book, but one given on the title page: Clinical Treatise on Diseases of the forebrain. The term history of psychiatry, ie, "the treatment of the soul," implies more than we can accomplish, and transcends the boundaries of scientific inquiry accurate. "

Clearly. A "science" that is inconsistent in his name already! How then can we expect logical principles, theories and methods of such an industry?

Examples of methods used in psychiatry:

This event was reported in a letter to the editor of Psychiatric News, by Natalie Shainess, recounting a personal encounter with this "research" at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association in Atlanta in May 1978. "Arriving late in the evening at the Omni Hotel, she writes," I was unpacking when my phone rang about 11:30 p.m., wondering who might be calling at this hour, I picked up the phone receiver to hear a male voice say, "Do you want to send a gentleman to pleasure you?" Offended by this offer, Dr. Shainess asked the hotel manager of the incident, to learn that "member American Psychiatric Association was conducting a research sex and had arranged for 25 women who arrive alone in receiving this call. "By presenting himself as a scientist, the psychiatrist unidentified deceived not only his victims but also hotel manager. "

The low level of intellectual effort was shocking. The diagnosis was established by a majority vote on the level we would use to choose a restaurant. You feel like Italian, I feel like Chinese, so let's y to the cafeteria. Then it's typed on a computer. "- A psychologist on the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

But suppose, indeed, in the field of psychiatry, there are laboratory tests and other means, typically used in real sciences, including medicine, observed phenomena and find solutions to problems.

We see publications and news all the time on a new psychiatric drug under development, a model of new brain function "found that" recent study shows that the substance is present CBA / missing in the brain patients with mental DISO XYZ.