Here's a nice article on it [2] > In addition, the qualitative aspect of therapist views showed that, perhaps above and beyond this, therapists feel the impact

Here's a nice article on it [2] > In addition, the qualitative aspect of therapist views showed that, perhaps above and beyond this, therapists feel the impact of psychiatric drugs on the therapeutic relationship. While some felt that drugs could improve client engagement, there was a strong feeling that their effects (and side effects) had a negative impact on clients' ability to work therapeutically. > Having to take meds can be viewed as failure by some therapists which is not helpful to clients. (Respondent 906) One of the therapists even calls out other therapists about seeing medication and failure. Probably better to read the whole thing but boils down to psychologists don't like medications. [2] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/capr.12403 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/capr.12403 ########### Forget all this gonna do a stream of consciousness as it's late here, the topic is pretty overdone and constantly attracts hate and honestly this is opening a can of worms but effectively you will see many many psychiatrists and doctors in general refer patients to psychological intervention. Psychologists recommending someone seek medications is nearly nonexistent. Why? I suspect its similar to the divide between doctors and midwives. Midwives can occasionally see caesarian sections as 'cheating' and labour a right of passage for women. Psychologists do something very similar, psychotherapy is a protracted unpleasant affair something that is worn as a badge of honour by those that undertake it. Then someone takes a pill and says well to be honest I won't bother. That irks some. But more to the point, there are also audits and overall several pushes to reduce usage of psychotropics [0]. So it can literally feel like a failure as a psychologist if one of your patients has to start taking a medication and later in the week you literally have to track that a failure. [1] is a recent interview in BPS (British psychological society) about a psychologists who started an organisation for evidence based psychiatry. CEP receive funding from Scientology. The most prominent UK psychology society promoting a piece about an cult funded body that opposes medicines. If you spend any time looking you will find psychology is rife with anti-psychiatry. This is just the article from the past few months that came to mind. [0] https://www.england.nhs.uk/learning-disabilities/improving-health/stamp/ https://www.england.nhs.uk/learning-disabilities/improving-h... [1] https://www.bps.org.uk/psychologist/medical-model-has-presided-over-four-decades-flat-lining-outcomes https://www.bps.org.uk/psychologist/medical-model-has-presid...