I think until we can get tests that can see "inside" the head/brain and "prove" there's something wrong and a way to fix those somethings, there's going to be antipsychiatry and antimed people because it's an easier position to argue from; kind of like those saying there is no God because we've been to outer space and didn't "see" him/her.
My father didn't like psychiatrists and this puzzled me until I learned that my mother, who had a brain tumor, was originally (back in 1948 before CT and MRI scans) told her grand mal seizures were "all in your head" and sent to a psychiatrist! Needless to say, the psychiatrist was not very helpful in curing her seizures. When they finally operated in 1952, because they had to, it was obvious something was "physically" wrong, it was way too late, not that they had the wherewithal to do anything at all about brain tumors back then.
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