Everything I know about psychiatry and therapy has me believe we are in the alchemy phase of mental health practice. We have a huge number of theories and argu

Everything I know about psychiatry and therapy has me believe we are in the alchemy phase of mental health practice. We have a huge number of theories and arguments that all sound reasonable but are contradictory and fail horribly when applied to everybody with the same disfunction label. We are not without success examples but I don't know if overall we are at net possitive. What I dislike mostly about the situation is pacients and families rarely being made aware of the gamble that is treatment. If the situation is bad enough you have basically nothing to lose, so sure, try anything at your disposal. But medicating young boys for being unruly for example...