What good does psychiatry promote?

It's essentially a pseudo-science based on subjective reasoning and judgments.

Are you kidding or a Scientologist?

Why should I be "kidding"? Kindly prove the "value" of psychiatry.

It has a 100 year history of helping people with mental disorders verified by uncountable studies? I mean what sort of proof are you looking for exactly? I just have a feeling that this is going to turn into one of those things where no matter what proof is offered it's going to be naysayed.

I owe my sanity to psychiatry. So do many others. It's not perfect, but what field is? Why call out psychiatry specifically?

(May 12, 2013 at 11:03 am)Psykhronic Wrote: Why call out psychiatry specifically?

I have found that those that most vehemently attack psychiatry are those that refuse to accept their own mental illness.

(Goddamn I am fucking tired of these stupid ass threads.)

(May 12, 2013 at 11:09 am)Faith No More Wrote:

(May 12, 2013 at 11:03 am)Psykhronic Wrote: Why call out psychiatry specifically?

I have found that those that most vehemently attack psychiatry are those that refuse to accept their own mental illness.

(Goddamn I am fucking tired of these stupid ass threads.)

Or because psychiatry is an evil practice, with no scientific base?

Psychiatry exists just to put people down, and not aid and assist them.

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(May 12, 2013 at 11:03 am)Psykhronic Wrote: I owe my sanity to psychiatry. So do many others. It's not perfect, but what field is? Why call out psychiatry specifically?

It's more susceptible to corruption than cardiology or urology.

(May 12, 2013 at 11:11 am)dazzn Wrote: Or because psychiatry is an evil practice, with no scientific base?

Psychiatry exists just to put people down, and not aid and assist them.

Proof?

(I am going to go on the record right now and say that you have been diagnosed with a mental illness at some point in your life.)

(May 12, 2013 at 9:43 am)CapnAwesome Wrote: It has a 100 year history of helping people with mental disorders verified by uncountable studies?

No, no it doesn't. 50 years at best.

Brain chemistry has no scientific basis? And seriously, "corruption"? You realize that medical doctors have fucked up a lot over their years of existence too - and on top of that also prescribe psychiatric medication and give out psychological/psychiatric referrals? Yeah okay, I agree with you FNM, these threads are getting tiresome.