??? A picture of Shako Zulu, the warrior? Sit on that guy and your life expectancy will be measured in femtoseconds! That is one of the last people in all history I’d use as a chair!
And, no worries, no harrasso!
As the guy said on old Star Trek, he’s so wrong, he’s used up all his mistakes for the rest of his life.
Does he imagine that a given specific physical surgery technique would work for all people? Nope! Not everyone has the same number of subclavian arteries, for instance. Human physical anatomy varies. Why, then, is it so important to him to imagine that a given specific psychiatric technique will work equally well for all people?
The trouble with someone taking an absolutist or extremist position in a discussion like this is that it poisons the thread for anyone who might want to take a dissenting opinion that happens to fall within the zone of moderation.
Polemically, it serves me just fine, as I’m very much a believer in the psychiatric sciences as sciences per se. I’m just realistic enough to know that this is a science still in the very early stages of development.
Hell, look at physics back when Newton’s work was less than a century old!
Oh please. I do so much research on line that even if I can’t get the papers I can at least find the abstract - at least for anything published in the last couple of decades.
And yes, I’m within spitting distance of several academic libraries, but have no intention of hauling my butt out to one when I know it’s completely unnecessary.
If the argument you want to make - that the best and most effective treatment for depression (we’ll make it easy for you and leave to just that one topic) is therapy rather than medication, please don’t even attempt to make such a feeble argument as the supposed “fact” that you can find no online authority for this. That’s just insulting.
IOW, the best you can do is show that MAYBE they are equally effective. That’s pretty much what I expected - as opposed to the rather grander claim that YOU were making.
So you objected to the literature I cited that was not available freely to you online.
I go and I find stuff that is available on line, and you take less than seven minutes to skim it and then make a snarky pronouncement.
I really figured I shouldn’t bother.
The evidence shows that at worst the effects of CBT are equal to medication, but that there is evidence that the effects of CBT may be longer lasting, that CBT may be more cost-effective, and that the effects of medications may be explained largely by placebo effects.
In addition, there may be increased risk of suicide with medications.
Yeah, right, the guys at the Boston Marathon who’ve lost their lives and legs and things would certainly agree with this…
Do you imagine for one second that they don’t know this? The science is advancing. It’s better today than it was yesterday, and will likely be better tomorrow than today. Do you sneer at Ben Franklin for not knowing about transistors?
Everyone loses their body eventually but no one loses their life. This world seems very cruel at times and it is cruel. There is a reason for everything. We can understand the lessons while despising them at the same time. I pray for the victims as well as the perpetrator. If everyone understood the physical it would no longer be the effective learning tool it is now. I am sorry but bad things happen. I did not design the system, but I understand it.
If you drop your car keys in a dark alley but walk up the street to look for them under the street light you will never find them. Scientists are looking in the brain when they should be looking at the consciousness. They will never succeed until they look in the right place.
Someone may have already pointed this out and I missed it. Sorry if this is a repeat.
The author mentioned in the OP is not a psychotherapist (psychiatrist, psychologist, nurse therapist, or social worker. Yes, a psychiatrist is a psychotherapist too.)
The man who wrote the work referred to in the OP is none of those. He is a creative writer. Beneath the title of his essay is is name link which leads to this:
“Benjamin Nugent is the author, most recently, of Good Kids, a novel. He’s Director of Creative Writing at Southern New Hampshire University”
From what I have been able to find about SNHU, it is, at best, primarily an on-line school.
Do you think that someone without a degree is dumb. Edison, Ford, and many others produced more rational thought than the doctorate degree people that worked for them. The Internet is an excellent place to gain knowledge of the world and life itself. There is nothing wrong with on-line universities. You are just airing a prejudice. I worked at a hospital for many years and it was my job to visit every patient everyday to determine that patient’s status. There was a large mental ward in the hospital. Some days when I visited you couldn’t tell the patients from the psychiatrists because they loved to mimic the patients. Making fun of them.
A hospital had a member of the board of directors check every patient’s “status” every day and the staff didn’t know better to avoid mocking patients in front of him?
The CEO was not about to fire a doctor, they were his source of income.
I was on the Board as a staff member, I had many other jobs, in billing, in computers, I wrote articles for the hospital newspaper, I was on call 24/7 and spent a lot of time at the hospital. I helped in ER when some disaster was going on and I calmed patients and doctors when tempers flared. It was a small hospital, 211 beds, I was almost glad when it closed. I got some rest.
The article writer is a journalist writing about a book by a psychotherapist and also asking questions about some of the issues the book raises. Where are you getting the notion that the author of the book being discussed is not a psychotherapist? Where was the writer of the article held out to be anything more than a journalist writing about the book and the author’s ideas re the current psychiatric diagnostic paradigm?