This is a key feature of falsifiability, the core idea behind the dominant scientific philosophy, though not apparently in psychiatry, and this...
Using Evil requires making judgements, which is often hard to justify. Its far better to just keep citing the provable problems.
I like to distinguish between evil deeds and evil people. Some of the "evil people" in history have been dogooders. They mean well but the result...
Workwell considered this and decided a CBT/GET trial was unethical.
Quite. All the data you need can be obtained by flipping a coin a thousand times. Or better yet, multiple coins a hundred each. You then claim...
That seems rife in BPS psychopsychiatry.
One of the issues here is that the depression questionnaires probably have low specificity. They can easily pick up ME symptoms and score them...
This is the fundamental problem for SEID. However this problem applies to all ME definitions. When studies are done its important to know how a...
Ghaemi has other books. I am reading one now on statistics and epidemiology.
Its nineteenth century science. It has no place in this century, and needs to be opposed. The comparison with religion does go back a long way...
Maybe not quite that bad, though possibly it is. The underlying scientific philosophy in psychiatry is not critical rationalism, and nearly all...
Except Godwin's law is not a law, its fallacious if you consider it a law. It is however an observation on human nature, in that people get...
Right, but with the caveat that much of psychopsychiatry belongs in alternative medicine. Yes, this is one of the reasons why many psychiatrists...
That is not actually my position. My position is that psychopsychiatry is largely theoretical, and hence unproven and much of it will be wrong. I...
Other material by Engels, as reviewed by Ghaemi in my blog on Phoenix Rising makes it very clear its about psychosomatic medicine in the main...
Actually that is a misapplication of CBT. We should not confuse the really bad CBT with the classical CBT. CBT is not about getting rid of...
I would argue the justification of the diagnoses is often Freudian, but I am not sure CBT itself is. However some applications of CBT look like...
The original paper is viewed as a treatise on psychosomatic medicine, but given a new label.
Yes, I understand they are telling a nice story about illness. It belongs right alongside other books of mythology. Telling stories is the modus...
New drugs can take 20 years once a mechanism is understood. Repurposed drugs can be used immediately, though formal approval for specific uses can...
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