A critique of our current psychiatric nosology

In this video I will offer my critics of modern day psychiatry and it's current perspective focused on
becoming a 'standard' branch of medecine and shying away from the complex nature of the mind and subjectivity.
Books used a theoretical basis:
The book of Woe by Gary Greenberg.
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[@unusualpond]

Another wonderful Video. I could tell so many stories about the depressing state of psychiatry here… last Christmas I was at a lunch where a very odd man sat down next to me. I could tell he was alcoholic immediately by his face and he drank his first bottle of wine in about half an hour. I asked him what he did for a living and he told me he was the head of psychiatry at a major Sydney Hospital. I asked him what most of the patients came there for and he said schizophrenia. He had an absolutely one dimensional, biological view of that condition and saw his role to simply medicate people into compliance. He showed no compassion, curiosity or, human perspective. It was truly frightening and depressing. It really was everything that Laing and Szasz warned me about. Maybe his own alcoholism speaks to the suffering he saw and tried to protect himself against… I asked him what made him diagnose schizophrenia. He would say they are drug addicts, homeless, can’t keep a job, etc. When I asked him why they were drug addict, homeless, unemployed, he said it’s because they are schizophrenic! Psychiatry really is a circular argument as you describe. There are no physical tests or markers. All this talk about neurotransmitters and dopamine is just correlative. It can never explain a cause of any particular constellation of symptoms or personality. Thankfully there are a couple of psychologically minded psychiatrists at my hospital.

[@gabrielniklasschildt5612]

Critic is the person doing a critique, in english the word comes from French, a critique.

[@talkingpsychology]

@@gabrielniklasschildt5612 thanks for you for pointing this out to me the joys of dyslexia I guess I will now change the title. Thanks again and have great day!