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They're called analysts for a reason, their daily work is much closer to research than refactoring code for yet another form-based web app. Humans seem to i
by samirillian 10y ago
They're called analysts for a reason, their daily work is much closer to research than refactoring code for yet another form-based web app.
Humans seem to innately require a kind of redemptive soteriology. For many cultures, this was the role of the shaman/medicine man. Insofar as therapists/psychologists/psychiatrists now fill that niche, it would seem right that they offer the analysand new/fruitful/exploratory possibilities, rather than mere regurgitation.
A critic of capitalism might consider both the psychiatrist's laziness and your own dismissive tone products of an unexamined assumption that the "division of labor" optimally solves all problems economic and existential alike. The division of labor works well on the assembly line, but does it work well for the health of the human being, especially psychological?
- beambot 10y agoIndeed, therapy / psychology / psychiatry are the closest analogs to modern-day shamanism -- and there's a lot of room for improvement. Unfortunately, those fields are bound by professional regulations that prevent "experimentation". Which makes the difference between diagnosis & treatment -vs- research pretty clearly defined. The latter has vastly different requirements (eg. double-blind studies, IRB approvals, etc, etc). I think it's a perfectly reasonable state of affairs to have psychiatrists sit somewhere on the "practice <---> research" spectrum. Don't like that your psychiatrist sits on the practice part of the scale? Find a different provider.