> But that was achieved by doing specific research (clinical trials, followup investigations and investigations into chemical mechanisms) which is totally unrel

> But that was achieved by doing specific research (clinical trials, followup investigations and investigations into chemical mechanisms) which is totally unrelated to psychology. A lot of psychiatric medications are not well understood, not the chemical pathways, not the chemical mechanisms, some of them just "work" for some people, some people require a different one, and we don't know exactly why. In that sense it's not too different from talk therapy, we know that some work but I don't think we know exactly why.