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It is interesting how powerful the meme is which prevents discussion of psychology and psychiatry amongst the laity. Multiple threads started and died on the th
by lidHanteyk 6y ago
It is interesting how powerful the meme is which prevents discussion of psychology and psychiatry amongst the laity. Multiple threads started and died on the theme of being a layperson and not an expert, despite the fact that any science should be examinable on its premises, observations, models, and theories.
Meanwhile, the Dodo Bird theory [0] has yet to be disproven, and there are good reasons to suspect that humans are merely smart mammals, rather than special animals who have no peers throughout the rest of the kingdom, which means that psychology and psychiatry are only the tip of a much bigger comparative discipline which handles humanity as a special case rather than as the main system of study.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodo_bird_verdict https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodo_bird_verdict
- dodobirdlord 6y agoThe Dodo Bird theory may, as it states, be relevant to therapy, but it holds no water for psychiatric treatment. Some mental disorders are known to respond radically differently to certain psychoactive medications. SSRIs are a canonical example. They are an effective treatment for major depression, but in bipolar disorder they cause rapid cycling and increase suicide risk.
- lidHanteyk 6y agoAssuming mental disorders exist, sure. But there is also evidence that a sufficiently technocratic government will use psychoactive drugs indiscriminately on its population in order to coerce and control them [0][1][2][3]. We must demonstrate somehow that mental disorders not only exist, but that their classification is due to science, and not due to bigotry and a lack of understanding [4][5]. Your example of SSRIs is an especially poor one, as SSRIs are well-understood to have been developed by the pharmaceutical industry as part of a panpsychic wellness package which is meant to be sold pill-by-pill to the public [6][7]. SSRIs today are like sugar in the past [8], with a corporate army of compensated scientists ready to study the noise and find useful results from harmful chemicals. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgewood_Arsenal_human_experiments https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgewood_Arsenal_human_experim... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crack_epidemic_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crack_epidemic_in_the_United_S... [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_involvement_in_Contra_cocaine_trafficking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_involvement_in_Contra_coca... [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_and_psychology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_and_psychology [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diagnostic_and_Statistical_Manual_of_Mental_Disorders#DSM-5_critiques https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diagnostic_and_Statistical_Man... [6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_serotonin_reuptake_inhibitor#Controversy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_serotonin_reuptake_i... [7] https://twitter.com/jcbonthedl/status/1159823784242753537 https://twitter.com/jcbonthedl/status/1159823784242753537 [8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_marketing#Influence_on_health_information_and_guidelines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_marketing#Influence_on_h...
- voidpointercast 6y agoUltrabased