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Originally Posted by BudFox
You seem intent on trashing Whitaker. Don't shoot the messenger. The book speaks for itself. Not sure what to do with your musings and anecdotes.
Are you saying psychiatry is a medical science? How so? Yet another thing that Whitaker's book lays out so clearly is how the profession so badly wanted to become a legit medical field, and tried to come up with a biological basis for mental disorders, failed, then simply used PR to sell the idea anyway. Smashing success.
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Wow just wow. You seem intent on bashing psychiatry and tarring everyone with the same brush and then seem sensitive when the spotlight is turned on Whitaker. I am studying medical science with the intention of entering the mental health field and I have read his book. Do you want to withdraw all psychotropic medications? I will assume you answer is yes since according to you they worsen outcomes.
It looks like the poster above gave up posting studies and tried to talk about clinical experience. Of course you attacked it as anecdote, because when studies don't suit you they are biased or otherwise corrupted, but when they do suit your existing beliefs you point to the evidence. Can't win. Psychiatrists have to study medical science. Is your position that because we are still learning about the brain we are not yet a medical science? At what point would we become one?