Psychiatry is the only medical specialty to have an active resistance movement. The problem is that their go-to treatments are palliative, and do NOT address an

Psychiatry is the only medical specialty to have an active resistance movement. The problem is that their go-to treatments are palliative, and do NOT address any of the causes of their patients' conditions. Robert Whitaker has found the evidence supporting the use of commonly-used drugs actually shows that psych patients do very poorly when medicated for an extended period of time [1]. [1] http://www.madinamerica.com/2016/07/the-case-against-antipsychotics/ http://www.madinamerica.com/2016/07/the-case-against-antipsy... Before the tranquilizers became available, people had episodes from which they usually recovered. Now their chronic conditions are 'managed', until they die 20 years earlier than would otherwise be expected.