Why Psychiatry Isn't Scientific (For Laymen) - r/Antipsychiatry
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/520880

It’s pretty simple to figure once I had a change in perspective; I really wish I figured this out earlier.

  • hfkldjbuq@beehaw.org
    5·
    2 years ago

    Interesting, but it would be more convincing if you linked to actually peer reviewed scientific works instead of a reddit comment. If that is actually the case, at least someone from psychiatry itself would be publicly critical of it.

    • graphito@beehaw.org
      4·
      2 years ago

      This goes very similar to medical industry overall. Medicine is not a hard science and history is full of cases when it was harmful.

      There are many doctors (including psychiatrists) who push for improving the field in both academic and humanitarian way. However, saying that X is not a science (implying it’s unscientific in some way) simply erodes trust in the industry, stifles research, diverts funding and encourages patients to seek often much worse options

  • graphito@beehaw.org
    4·
    2 years ago

    I kind of don’t understand the argument. Yes, social sciences are often not as robust as math or physics. What’s the conclusion here?

    Psychiatry shouldn’t exist? All the research should stop and all patients diagnosed with schizophrenia, bipolar, self harm, depression should be “left alone” (i.e. untreated)?