Modern-Day Relics of Psychiatry, 2019, Tripathi et al

I'd be curious if anyone had done a full review of the various psychosomatic concepts. I would be surprised if there are fewer than 50, all nearly identical. It's still constantly shifting and changing by minute amounts and the duplication of efforts is staggering, especially when the differences basically amount to arguing over what type and consistency of cheese the Moon is made up in the days before rockets were invented. Entirely pointless speculation.

Reminds me of failed software development projects in which huge efforts are wasted on the design of the proverbial watershed even though the main project itself has completely stalled. It's all busywork that serves no purpose other than pretending to do something.

Just looking at the current discussion over differences between BDS, BSS, FSS and WhateverTheFuckElse and frankly the differences are so minute, so nitpicky as to be entirely meaningless as they are as open to interpretation as a religious text or Nostradamus.

There are variations of jokes about physics applied to other fields that start something like "assuming a cow is a perfect spherical object of uniform density going at relativistic speed". It's like that, except unironically. An entire field of medicine based entirely on cartoonish parody of human nature.

 

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5205970/?page=1

Here's a paper on Neurasthenia from 1904. The cure is claimed to be exercise after a period of rest.

 

It's almost amazing how lazy it all is. Old vinegar-wine in old, brittle bottles.