[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.
Far be I from denying the benefits of medical science. That is not what this
is about though. I'm just pointing out that for example:
DSM-IV (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) now consist
of some 950 pages, and virtually every part of human behaviour can be
diagnosed as some sort of mental disorder.
What is these diagnoses based on? Nothing. Air. At least that is the case
with some 90% of them, and this has been the way psychiatry has worked
since- forever. A diagnosis is made from observing a behaviour in a human,
then comes the conclusion that this must be due to some dysfunction in the
body (or the mind if we go over to psychology).
And then everything is a illness all of a sudden. Not reflecting over the
fact that "illness" is a human invention and exists nowhere else but in
human thinking, materialistic psychiatry goes on to see everything as
functions (even thought they cannot prove it, it must be so!) and the list
of what is a mental disorder grows ever longer.
With a MOQ view we would identify it as diagnoses based on social level
Values. And the major problem is that psychiatry is working on the very
mind/matter split that everybody takes for granted - and not surprisingly
things get a little dysfunctional in psychiatry itself (what ARE they
actually handling?)
Regards
Chris
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