I wonder which is the better approach to demonstrate that the brain is merely
a complex machine, resembling a computer - Psychiatrists with their DSM/ICD
or non-psychiatric materialists awaiting results of "promising research"?
Bertvan
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http://psychextortion.cchr.org/eng/page12.htm
Consider the following diagnoses from the DSM/ICD: speech articulation
disorder, spelling disorder, written expression disorder, mathematics
disorder, nicotine use or withdrawal, caffeine intoxication/withdrawal, and
sibling rivalry disorder. Then there is the all-encompassing "related
disorder" requiring "clinical attention" called "Phase of Life Problem."
Neither psychiatry or psychology has ever conclusively studied the
measurement of mental phenomena. They have no means of measuring the mind.
They do not have precise and universally agreed upon definitions of terms -
they cannot even agree on key terms, such as "schizophrenia." And they have
no clearly defined phenomena - their conclusions vary with the observer.
While the media blindly accepts this authoritative posture, many who know
better don't. In 1996, psychiatrist David Kaiser pointed out that "...modern
psychiatry has yet to convincingly prove the genetic/biologic cause of any
single mental illness.... Patients [have] been diagnosed with 'chemical
imbalances' despite the fact that no test exists to support such a claim, and
... there is no real conception of what a correct chemical balance would look
like."
P.S.
Some of us believe there is as much evidence for chemical imbalances as
there is for "chance and selection" as an explanation of life's complexity.
Bertvan
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