Posted by maree on July 22, 2008, at 1:01:37
In reply to Re: Study highlights Dopamine's dichotomous role, posted by blueboy on July 15, 2008, at 10:34:57
>" It seems to me that psychiatry as a whole, starting with Freud, has always tended to attribute knowledge and abilities to itself that it does not possess. IMO this has traditionally been a problem with physicians in general, to a degree, but most pronounced in psychiatry (and some other branches of medicine, such as orthopedic surgery)."Probably because the mistakes a psyche may make, that cause death (likely suicide), can less be blamed on them than if a person dies as a result of taking THIS medication, or bled to death in the OR. They can therefore expound on theories that have no real factual base, because their so called "knowledge" cannot be used to beat them with, later, if it proves wrong.
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