Hi Iaplace,

I'm sorry that you were, basically, tortured.

Psychiatry, like any other profession, has individuals who put self-interest above all else. However, because of the nature of the profession, psychiatrists should be held to high ethical standards.

Psychology has raised its ethical standards. If B.F. Skinner were alive today, he would lose his license if he put his daughter in a box simply to see her reaction. Likewise, Zapata would lose his license if he put people in jail simply to see their reaction. Those kind of "experiments" are no longer considered ethical.

Psychiatry has come a long way in regards to ethics; psychiatrists are no longer drilling holes in the heads of people with mental illness. Nevertheless, psychiatry's ethical standards are still not high enough, in my opinion. A strong, independent, ethical board must exist in psychiatry, for it is the only thing that will protect the patient from a psychiatrist with less-than-noble motivations.