Psychiatry is such an embarrassment, in the US and UK at least. So many otherwise reasonably intelligent people believe in the concrete reality of "diagnoses" t

Psychiatry is such an embarrassment, in the US and UK at least. So many otherwise reasonably intelligent people believe in the concrete reality of "diagnoses" that are merely descriptive at best, and delusional at worst. The number of parents who are led to believe that their child "has" "dyslexia" or "ADHD" is astonishing; and the ramifications in terms of extra time in exams, free laptops etc are absurd. One form of evidence for these assertions is the lack of cultural replication: I don't have citations, but I understand that many of these concepts do not have parallels in other languages/cultures where one would would expect replication if these really were biological phenomena. I guess people will always see shapes in clouds, but when it comes to serious matters like education, the rational, scientific side of our society needs to be kind but firm in stamping this stuff out. But when will it finally happen -- perhaps not until we've also got over the idiocy of religion, and the idiocy of the "postmodernism"-influenced humanities?