Posted by Shalom34Israel on December 1, 2004, at 19:43:03
In reply to The artificial nature of psychiatric diagnosis, posted by ed_uk on December 1, 2004, at 8:57:15
The artificial nature of psychiatric diagnoses will go away in ten or twenty more years when functional neuroimaging and genetic testing is factored into psychiatry. In all likelihood, psychiatry is going to cease to exist in twenty or thirty more years and eventually will become a part of Neurology. Serious mental illnesses will be seen as nothing more than Neurological diseases of the brain, that show up on a functional MRI scan or a SPECT or PET scan. And will be treated accordingly, probably by future trained Neurologists who subspecialize in "Neuropsychiatric" diseases.
The DSM is crap, psychiatry is crap and its only a matter of time before high technology forces psychiatry to fundamentally change its backward ways.
Shalom
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