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So you're telling me that psychotropic drugs have essentially zero scientific support as treatment for psychopathology?

• Alex3917 16y ago
  Yes, of course. Read Anatomy of an Epidemic, The Emperor's New Drugs, etc. Robert Whitaker's blog is also really great, although you wouldn't necessarily have all the information you'd need to read it unless you've already read the book.
  • eavc 16y ago
    It's important not to throw the baby out with the bathwater. The enterprise of psychology and its application is a worthwhile and fruitful one despite errant ideas and applications in the past or in some of its member practitioners. To even dispute the efficacy of some aspect of psychology requires the practice of psychology. I grant that there are dangerous abuses and manipulations of the approvals process and public opinion, but it is also important to note that many psychotropics have a place in the treatment of dysfunction. I applaud that you are trying to spread the word about those abuses, but I encourage you to measure what you say so as not to group the nostrums and charlatans with the valid medications and practitioners of which many do exist.