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Originally Posted by vonmoxie
So true; I often forget about it myself in terms of psychological effects, because psych practitioners are naturally more inclined to treat what aspects they are trained to, almost as if they exist in a vacuum (brain in a jar!), and not so much holistically with consideration of the physiological. It's the same trouble medical professionals tend to have.. everyone's a specialist, and hardly anybody looks at these things in a connected way.
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Yes! That is one of the main things I have been saying for years. Everyone is a bloody specialist. Therapists, dentists, dermatologists, gastroenterologists… just a few of the specialties I have had experience with. In all cases the focus was so narrow that it was very much "brain (or gut, mouth, skin) in a jar" approach.
But I have also worked with MDs, NDs, herbalists, even a dentist or two, who had impressive working knowledge of the whole person. Harder to find and usually outside insurance networks and other institutional controls.