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Originally Posted by bpcyclist
You go, newtus. I totally support you in this. I believe psychology has created some tools and schools that have been helpful to many, but, I alsoe believe its reliance on this ridculous, 1600s-era concept of "the mind" and "the psyche" has dramatically slowed progress for patients with these illnesses. I know it is an unpopular belief I have, but until we all recognize that bipolar disorder and schizophrenia are diseases of the human brain and that the human brain is an actual organ of the human body with specific electorchemical and endocrine functions and processes that can be slowly understood through real, sicientific research, we will continue practicing like Steve Martin in an SNL sketch about medieval doctors using gnomes and toads to cure us all.
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That’s a very very good way to put it! I like it!