RE: Psychiatry Exposed
July 18, 2014 at 8:27 pm
(This post was last modified: July 18, 2014 at 8:29 pm by Ryantology.)
(July 16, 2014 at 8:11 pm)Jenny A Wrote: I agree that my psychologists and worse yet GP's are way too quick to prescribe drugs. But I've yet to see much value in talk therapy. If the problem is chemical, but you go looking for personal problem, you'll find a personal problem. And blaming that can make it worse not better.
Psychologist or psychiatrist? Psychologists typically can't prescribe medication. My wife (a cognitive psychologist herself) has a very negative view of psychiatry because of their emphasis on prescribing dangerous medication.
It really gets under her skin when people mix them up; I suppose a bit of that has rubbed off on me.