At 05:49 AM 5/5/2008, you wrote:
[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
Greetings,
I'm with you, Chris. Much (not all) of what is called
medical/medicine is a Capitalistic hoax, and the media is fully
participating in perpetrating that hoax. I'll trust the medical
establishment when it's primary function is prevention and healing
rather than PROFIT.
Marsha
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars...
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