Posted by Mr. SadPuppyDog on October 9, 2002, at 11:37:21
In reply to Psychiatry vs. Neurology and a daunting question.., posted by JLM on September 30, 2002, at 5:36:13
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> My question is this thou. Neurologists treat organic disorders of the brain and brain dysfunctions. If mood disorders and mental illness are truly caused by organic brain disorders, what is the need for psychiatry at all, when the practice of neurology allready exists?
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Your question is a good one. Its a question that is being asked more and more lately. As science evolves and severe mental illness is discovered to stem from organic (physical causes) and not from abstract Freudian concepts and psychology mumbo jumbo, I think more and more will demand this issue to be addressed. For psychiatrists and the mental health community, this issue is a scary one. For if fully confronted, it might eventually mean the loss of their profession, with a loss of a job and loss of lucrative financial career they have established for themselves.Think about it. If you were a psychiatrist and had spent umpteen years studying psychiatry/psychology mumbo jumbo and then suddenly some real scientists came along and said youve got it all wrong, that is financially and professionally threatening to psychiatrists. It would also be financially threatening to psychologists and many other lower lever mental health professionals who have given their adult lives to these fallacious concepts of mental illness being mysterious psycho-mumbo jumbo.
In the end, its all about money and preservation of one's lucrative medical profession, than it is about trying to advance the state of the care of the severely mentally ill. If psychiatrists truly cared about the people they treat, they would be the ones pushing hard to force psychiatry into Neurology. You dont see that and again, its cause many of them are skeered to death that one day, their beloved profession will cease to exist one day and I suppose they will be relegated to working as talk therapists or maybe working at Seven Eleven. Which is where many of them belong anyway.
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