That's as may be. I'm glad he is now admitting his mistakes. As I implied in my post, I wish he would go further in realising the conceptual mistake he has and still continues to make about the nature of mental illness.
Actually, I think it's understandable the reason he has taken the position he has in his career. He has been a professor in psychiatry and knighted for his research efforts. I have tended to concentrate on my clinical work and been suspended twice for my efforts (eg. see previous post). So what if I've been right about critical psychiatry all these years!
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I don't know how long it took the surgeons to accept that sterilization of their hands, tools and operating theaters decreased the death rate of their patients.
It has long been known that Psychosomatic illness do in fact exist. Not all illness are physical in nature. The corollary of this then is that human beings are not all physical and that to say that all stems from the brain is reductionist.
Maybe you are right and psychiatry is wrong.
If your patients are recovering you are right.
If you are simply putting chemical straight jackets on your patients you have a way to go.
Merry Christmas.
Happy New Year.
And us SUs and SU researchers have known it for a long time - this time though I'm glad it's him - he has clout + it shows Psychiatry is beginning to implode. Take it with good grace Duncan.
Not sure what the 'implosion of psychiatry' would be, Diana?
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