Can psychiatry make medicine better? Michael Sharpe, 29 Nov 2022

In order to make psychiatry better, the discipline has to acknowledge, recognize and address the fact that they have caused massive catastrophic harm to millions. Despite medicine's motto of "do no harm", it's basically the only profession that has ever directly harmed people as intended, officially, rather than through individual failure. It's just not going to happen until then.

I'm not entirely sure if we mean the same things, though. Considering the medication-oriented quip, which isn't the problem so much as using medications without understanding a damn thing about them and ignoring almost all issues they cause. But especially the behavior woo. Third-party perception of behavior simply doesn't work, it's superficial and almost completely arbitrary.

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