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Is psychiatry evil?
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RE: Is psychiatry evil?
May 13, 2013 at 8:49 am
(May 13, 2013 at 8:36 am)NoraBrimstone Wrote: I am posting this. Therefore I am not dead. This wouldn't be the case if it wasn't for the work my amazing Psychiatrist...

Ditto.
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RE: Is psychiatry evil?
May 13, 2013 at 8:52 am (This post was last modified: May 13, 2013 at 8:55 am by Aractus.)
(May 12, 2013 at 11:30 am)dazzn Wrote: There is one mental health professional I respect actually, and this is Jerry Springer. It sounds odd, and frankly most real-world (so to speak) psychologists detest him, but his advice/reasoning is far superior to his detractors. He tells it as it is, in all senses. He doesn't sugarcoat things, and if there is no hope of recovery, he tells them and is honest in that respect. He also is non-judgmental, and does not make personal appraisals/values influence his reasoning. He further understands modern society as it is, and not how he wishes it to be. Tell me, which other "real-world" psychologists writes a book called "Life Code"? But no, they try and influence us to be Buddhist monks and push their subjective moral views/perceptions onto the masses lol.. I think most real-world psychologists detest Jerry Springer not due to his fame but because he's a better professional than they'll be in a million years and are just pussy loser envious people
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(May 12, 2013 at 11:37 am)Faith No More Wrote: (Dr. Phil is a self-righteous asshole that berates people for entertainment. )
Yep. "Dr" Phil. While he is a doctor, he isn't a licensed psychologist and thus he cannot legally practise psychology. Dazzn seems to be ignoring this fact.
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RE: Is psychiatry evil?
May 13, 2013 at 9:01 am
(May 13, 2013 at 8:52 am)Aractus Wrote: Yep. "Dr" Phil. While he is a doctor, he isn't a licensed psychologist and thus he cannot legally practise psychology. Dazzn seems to be ignoring this fact.

Also, I think it is important to make the distinction between psychiatry and psychology because there is a massive difference between them.
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RE: Is psychiatry evil?
May 14, 2013 at 7:45 am
(May 12, 2013 at 9:26 am)dazzn Wrote: Is psychiatry evil?
Psychiatry has no moral claim either way; it's neither good nor evil.

(May 12, 2013 at 9:26 am)dazzn Wrote: What good does psychiatry promote?
A tool and method for treating mental illness; it's a human science. Albeit neuroscience is a natural science ("Bottom-up"), based on biology and chemistry, psychiatry is "top-down." I think psychiatry will be based off of neuroscience in the future. They'll "meet" somewhere in the middle with neuroscience having a way more accurate model of the brain, and psychiatry having a way better methodology to treat mental illness based on that model.

Better models we get of the brain, better will psychiatry be able to treat mental illness.

(May 12, 2013 at 9:26 am)dazzn Wrote: It's essentially a pseudo-science based on subjective reasoning and judgments.
The difference between pseudo-science and science is that the latter works and testable so. Bitches.


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RE: Is psychiatry evil?
May 31, 2013 at 6:27 am
lol..

ok. so a "mental illness" is that which makes a person at "psychological dis-ease"? lol..

Cite PC bullshit all you like. That's just a definition to make psychiatry more relatable.
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RE: Is psychiatry evil?
May 31, 2013 at 7:32 am
(May 12, 2013 at 9:26 am)dazzn Wrote: What good does psychiatry promote?

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

Yes it is very "evil" to make you stand and face yourself.

Mankind's mind is fraught with "pseudoscience" and as Hypatia once said "it will take much pain for them to be free of it"

Blame religion. Don't blame psychiatry mate.
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RE: Is psychiatry evil?
June 18, 2013 at 2:06 pm
I think he has done a great job in psychiatry evil, he has great experience and works with passion, it shows how much he cares for humans.
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RE: Is psychiatry evil?
June 18, 2013 at 4:03 pm
(June 18, 2013 at 2:06 pm)AmyLoch Wrote: I think he has done a great job in psychiatry evil, he has great experience and works with passion, it shows how much he cares for humans.

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RE: Is psychiatry evil?
June 18, 2013 at 4:14 pm
(June 18, 2013 at 4:03 pm)Faith No More Wrote:
(June 18, 2013 at 2:06 pm)AmyLoch Wrote: I think he has done a great job in psychiatry evil, he has great experience and works with passion, it shows how much he cares for humans.

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RE: Is psychiatry evil?
June 18, 2013 at 4:29 pm
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