[Chris] And now I'm reading about the development of psychiatric care in Europe and Sweden. To put it bluntly, it's really fucked up stuff. And I'm not referring to the treatment of the patients as such, but rather the foundation that psychiatric is based on. I mean, they are trying to cure the mind by looking at the body. Mind-Matter, Mind-Matter, for thousands of years they have kept at it, and not gotten one step closer. When will they understand? I keep having to go out for air when I read about it. Also I suspect the professor in charge of this particular class will find my paper on it somewhat. bitter. So be it.
Sickness and Death of the mind. Pff. I need a cigarette. [Krimel] I don't know much about the situation in Europe but I do know that in the US treating mental illness as a disease has proven far more effective than anything else ever attempted in this area. The advent of psychiatric medications in the middle of the 20th century began to reduce the population of mental patients in mental institutions dramatically. The newer generations of these medications target problems much more effectively and hospitalizations have continued to decline. For other forms of mental problems, particularly epilepsy and other seizure disorder the surgeries performed are radical and terrifying but they also save lives. Certainly there have been many unfortunate problems and solutions that were worse than the problems they sought to solve. But there is every reason to regard mental illness as rooted in physical causes in a great many cases and it is simply not true that progress in the treatment of these diseases has not been made. In fact the opposite is true. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
