Is psychiatry a complete fraud?

Or just harmless quackery? The patients were going to die anyway, we just hastened it along a bit.

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Not the same as psychology

maybe not a COMPLETE fraud... there was Ronnie Laing, after all.... but much too much seduction & incest by the Big Pharma has led to the current dysfunction.

Thank God for psychiatrist. I'd be dead if a psychiatrist wasn't prescribing meds for me. Report It

you must be tom cruise lol. your an idiot whether your him or not. you know nothing about the mind or body so you shouldnt be posting idiotic questions here. there are alot of people in the world who have mental problems. read and quit playing with yourself tom.

you have got to be kidding me right? We have cardiologists, allergists, urologists, etc - and you dont think we might need a specialty for our brains?
Get out - and quit reading conspiracy theories.

Suggest you go see one old bean....you are obviously off your rocker. Never mind eh?

No. it is a science.

It is rather complicated as it deals with abstract issues

It depends on your expression and reaction to the expression of the psychiatrist!

Well i don't like links so you can keep your link, and no psychiatry is not a complete fraud or quackery. The mind is really complance, and a lot is still not know about it, it is still a very unexplored part of our body, and ourselves. Since not everyone reacts the same to therapy, then not all people will react to the same therapy, or medications, plus no one every said that there was a magic pill or a magic wand to take all of your mental problems away. It is just that today you do have more of a choose, and you are not thrown away into an mental nut house and keapt there for the rest of your life for seeking help, and the doctors do not have all of the anwers, not for the mind, or the body, look how long they have been trying to cure the common cold, and cancer, and other illiness. So are you saying that those doctors, are quacks, or fraud too, cause they have not found the answer to everything that comes along. Doctors do the best that they can. Sure there are some frauds, and quackes in all areas of life proably, but not everyone who trys to help you is a quack or a fraud , maybe you are just asking to much of people to know it all, cause you want them to, but that is not the case, and proably will not ever be the case.

This attidue of your's, 'The patients were going to die anyway, we just hastened it along a bit.' is so dangerous.

I hope everyone sees your statement for the ignorant one that it is.

Psychiatry still has to grow up as an art, as a health science, there are many quacks in the field, but there are the few who really care. I for one hope to be a positive influence for change in the mental health fields one day, because I know first hand as well as through talking with othes and through college courses that psychiatry is still in it's infancy and too many in the field are stuck with drugs as the only answer. Sadly too many in the mental health field see only disorders and diseases and fail to treat individuals. Until they treat individuals, they'll fail as a whole to help those who desire to find real answers to real problems.

It's not harmless, people can come out of it more hurt than they went in. It's not a fraud because the doctors learn it with the best of intentions (to heal). It's based on false assumptions about the true nature of us all as human beings, and good science can still lead to unhappiness when the basis is weak.

A few stitches and a band-aid just doesn't address every problem out there. When other docs can't figure out the problem, they send the person to the psychiatrist...and these docs also look at the symptoms. I have seen both genuine concern and a willingness to look seriously into real solutions, genuine reasons for the functional problems of the patients and results to change persons lives in very positive directions. ........ as a caregiver, only on one occasion have I witnessed the work of an incompetent and negligent psychiatrist....
Most are willing and able to address the problems as presented.