Psychiatry - no science, no cures

hey Jill you stupid ignorant bitch. i hope one day the police will arrest and put you in prison for abusing people with your pseudoscience fraud. people like you have no place in this society. why don't you go kill yourself you worthless piece of shit. the time is coming for you mental health criminals.

psychiatry is a total fraud. unscientific and its a pseudoscience. these freaks abuse and belittle people and treat them like trash. anybody who agree's with psychiatrists and psychiatry deserves all the torture and abuse they get from them. you like psychiatrists? take your pills and die and leave us intelligent people alone.

Anyone who has had reason to see a Trick-Cyclist will know what this film is getting at. And probably agree on the whole. Psychiatry seems to be for those intellectualists who like believing in there thoughts that little bit too much. And at our expense. People are worse. Most people think we all share the same experience of life at the same time. Which is ridiculous.

From June of 1977 until February of 1979, I saw a Psychiatrist on a weekly basis. In retrospect, seeing this shrink was not only a waste of time, but money as well. This guy tried to hypnotize me and failed. He also prescribed medication that only succeeded in robbing me of my sex drive, at which time I took the rest of those pills and flushed them down the toilet. At one point during my therapy with this guy (If you can call it that), he began to patronize me and belittle. I promptly told the bastard to go to hell, and promptly left, never to return. As a result of this very negative and highly distastful experience, I have acquired an extreme aversion to Psychiatrists and everything they represent.

(continuation) ...they NEVER do that. Many live horrible miserable lives imprisoned in there if they don't die thanks to your "healthy" treatments. And if they are ever released they are not cured at all and do worse than before in life because you destroy them. You are a shame, a total fraud and a dishonor to mankind!

Blah, blah, blah Jill. Your words sound very nice but they are just words. Prove that psychiatry is a science and that you can really cure people! Prove it! Science is not just words! Science is facts, results! Medical doctors cure a lot of people. They don't cure everybody, of course, but they cure a lot of people who get back to a healthy sane life. I don't know of any mentally ill or insane person that you have ever cured and has become sane and is back in society and in good shape. You don't have cures and yet you receive thousands of millions from the government. All you do is to put people in drugs or give them electroshocks or psychosurgery. All of these are methods of destroying their brains and their lives. That is your product. That is what you are doing to people with the tons of money you are given. People who have the terrible bad luck of falling in your hands and are imprisoned in your hospitals, never come out sane, happy and smiling, totally recovered - they NEVER do th

Being a psychology major, what I find interesting is that these were not sudden realizations to any of these professionals. It's been long known in the field that it's nearly impossible to conduct empirical studies, because much of what happens in the mind is phenomenological -- unobservable matter (ie. you can't see a thought). And though MRI and fMRI scanners has helped us look a little into the brain and make some rough measurements, most of the evidence is still correlational and not causal. And it just so happens much of medicine is like that. (ie, has it ever been ethically proven that smoking causes cancer?). And people of even more philosophic perusasion may even argue that nothing can be proven, only disproven. So a very clever professor of mine use to remind us that psychology was the science of INFERENCE, and that's what I tell everyone when they say it's not a science. It's kind of a "no, duh"

I always thought pshychiatrists not only didn't know anything about the mind and couln't cure anything but they were quite crazy themselves. I'm not surprised to learn I wasn't wrong. No sane person would ever think frying the brain with electricity as in electroshocks or destroying parts of the brain as in lobotomy cured anything. Now they have just become much more sophisticated and they keep damaging the brain but with dangerous mind altering drugs that they sell as "cures" instead. It's much easier, cleaner and it gives more profit. And dumb people are falling into it like flies while making them even richer. What a crazy planet...

I think many things in this world cant be proven and that doesnt mean that they arent helpful. Meds help tons of people who would otherwise kill themselves. Do you have the stats on that, I dont think so. To say psychiatry is crap is something unintelligent to say.

I agreed with you cheryl, out of the blue I started having panic attaks, whoever had them know how scary and disabling these are, I was told, this is a quimical imbalance, we do not know how this imbalance happaned, anyway I am on zoloft, the panic attaks went away,and I can function, i do not care if there is a scientific method to prove my imbalance.

Much of psychology has been known for a long time; color theory affecting emotions, impressioning, hypnotism and suggestion, discipline and conditioning, etc. These phenomena have been observed, but never explained. Pavlov took these observation further and developed techiniques to exploit these phenomena, and had theories to explain them. Psychology contnues along that path, but is still in the observatory stages of a science. It has no place to diagnose disease or prescribe mind altering drugs or treatments, let alone decide about someone's fitness to be free.

This is a powerful challenge facing our society today: the emergence of a world/self view that is in contradiction to the current paradigm. In plain english, we have a new and rap[idly spreading Religion that flys in the face of accepted science. This has happened repeatedly throughout history, often resulting in momentus steps forward for man and science - yet mostly ending up as the butt of a joke some centuries later. Ninety-nine of every hundred new ideeas (more probably) are wrong, and that is the scientific method. These wrong answers help us find the truth by the process of elimination. Theories fail, are disproven and debunked. Eventually the question gets an answer that withstands all criticism and challenge. Psychology is much like string theory in that it attempts to explain what we cannot even see, test, or possibly understand. Therefore, the core beliefs, or assumptions, of these theories (mind you, pschology is just a theory) can not even be tested. Much of psychology ha

before and was doing the exact opposite. And harming myself. It did take a good shrink to be focused enough with me in therapy to get to a point where I could do those things. Now, I actually have a life I'm living and not sad in. Have I been cured of some poisonous thoughts that were making my life so difficult? Yes! Because of the decisions I made...which were very impacted by having a psychiatrist and treatment program. So "cure" is a very relative term. Especially in psychiatry...come on!

of them who are not so much. Psychiatrists have many times been given a bad reputation...I think partly because of people who hate to go outside the box and they find some techniques weird (or mentally painful because of memories?) or find some principles weird. 'Shrinks' have put tons of effort into their field...and, speaking from personal experience, it's very comforting and strengthening to have someone there to listen, give feedback (which is not always what I wanted to hear), not be emotionally invested in my issues, but sincerely wanting to help because he/she sees a person in lots of pain. That is a true doctor, in my opinion. I'm not sure what state I'd be in today at 22 if I'd not been helped when I was 15-16. It's easy to say something's crap until you have found great value in it. The main thing I remember being encouraged to do in my sessions with my psychiatrists? Listen to your body, trust yourself, and be here now. Those are the things I'd never been encouraged to do b