> I am convinced depression will become a physical biological condition that is treatable once we investigate its causes. From a materialist perspective, all p

> I am convinced depression will become a physical biological condition that is treatable once we investigate its causes. From a materialist perspective, all psychological issues necessarily have a physical manifestation. That doesn't mean it needs to be a specific pathology. Placebos do have a real effect, does that mean there is some hitherto unidentified substance in Placebos, doing all the work? Of course not. The problem with people that reject "psychosomatic" as a diagnosis is that they're hopeless in case their condition actually is psychosomatic. If you demand your condition be found under a microscope and treated with a pill, medicine will most likely disappoint. If your condition is not psychosomatic, but invisible to current methods of screening, you are screwed either way. If we look into all directions for something like CE/MFS, surely we will find something. That doesn't mean it will reproduce. It's a long way to go. Of course, many doctors are quick to dismiss difficult-to-diagnose pathologies as psychosomatic. That probably means you're not making them enough money. Other doctors will gladly mislead you into an expensive and potentially dangerous placebo treatment. Either way, the doctor most likely to diagnose you properly is not necessarily the one that tells you what you wanted to hear. > Psychology in time is going to disappear, none of its results in time has proven repeatable, none of its treatments seem to work very well and its diagnoses are not consistent. You have to consider that the field faces significant practical challenges when it comes to applying the scientific method. Nevertheless, I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss it, cognitive behavioral therapy does show results on par with commonly prescribed medications.