This article has been published in numerous places and generally ver kindly received. It was rejected by just one publisher, EzineArticles.com, on the grounds of it being "too negative" about psychiatry. I could of course propitiate psychiatry by not saying too many negative things about its teachings and practises -but that would mean lying. Needlss to say I was not wlling to amend the article and affect a compromise.
A psychiatrist is someone who practices psychiatry.
He believes:
- That Man is merely another animal, albeit one more highy evolved
- That man has no soul and that his personality, thoughts and feelings derive from chemical processes in the brain.
-That your difficulties can and should be addressed by modifying chemical processes in the brain.
The psychiatrist's three main methods of altering your brain chemistry are:
- Electric shocks to the head.
- Surgery to remove pieces of the brain.
- The use of drugs to alter the chemistry of the brain and nerves.
A psychiatrist is NOT the same as a medical doctor although he does have medical training as part of his psychiatric training.
A medical doctor addresses physical problems and observable and identifiable abnormalities in the body's structure and physical processes. He usually gets results - observable improvement in physical function.
A psychiatrist addresses problems of the mind, thought and emotion by seeking to bring about alteration of physical structure in the body, specifically of the brain. He operates largely on the individual practitioner's OPINION as to what constitutes an abnormality of mind, thought or emotion. Entries in his diagnostic manual (of which more in a later article), which lists hundreds of "disorders" requiring alteration of the brain come about through majority vote at a psychiatric convention rather than the scientific procedures used in regular medicine.
Statistically, his patient recovery rate is extremely low and once embarked upon a course of psychiatric care, most patients remain in the pychiatric system for life.
All psychiatric techniques are aimed at quietening and controlling the patient rather than curing him.
Psychiatrists regard curing mental illness as impossible and the wrong approach to the problem. Having abandoned the quest for a cure, they talk instead of "managing" the person's condition. Drugs are the favored tool for achieving that end, the "chemical straightjacket" approach nd psuchiatric medication is the primary route by which mind-altering drugs enter into the society.
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