As an informed lay-person, psychiatry scares me. There are cases where it is the best we have, but it really feels to me like the state of medicine when bloodletting was an accepted treatment.
In particular we regularly have disaster after disaster caused by psychiatry, psychology, and related fields. Consider the excesses of frontal lobotomies in the 1950s, electroshock therapy in the 60s and 70s, and false memory syndrome in the 80s and 90s. It makes me wonder, what disasters are we creating now?
In particular we regularly have disaster after disaster caused by psychiatry, psychology, and related fields. Consider the excesses of frontal lobotomies in the 1950s, electroshock therapy in the 60s and 70s, and false memory syndrome in the 80s and 90s. It makes me wonder, what disasters are we creating now?