Posted by Sad Sara on November 5, 2004, at 10:46:15
In reply to Psychiatry should be replaced with neurology, posted by Squiggles on November 3, 2004, at 15:41:33
First, I think you mean "psychology" and not "psychiatry", since psychiatry is exactly that... medicating mental disease.
I think you forget one thing, there is a lot of people who has been cured by psychotherapy only. There is even a few shcizofrenic people who has been cured from just psychotherapy (try reading 'Dantes Cure'). Psychotherapy has a lot less side effects than medical treatment.
But you do have a point. Medical research and medicine in general should have a bigger role in mental disease. It is inacceptable that a nurse can say "get over it and stop feeling sorry for yourself" to someone with a major depression.
On the other hand, it would also be nice if psychotherapy could be accepted of all as an effective therapy for some cases of mental disese, some of which are entirely similar to some that are not curable by psychotherapy only. Psychotherapy is not a therapy without flaws, but are medicine a therapy without flaws.....?
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