From Refusing Psychiatry Without Pissing Off the Neighbors
Saturday, March 30, 2013
Psychiatry and the Easter faith
Why do you look for the living among the dead?
Mourners visiting a tomb were asked this question one morning, long ago.
I ask it today of anyone who might study the mind or presume to heal mentally caused ills within a framework alienated from religion or in non-religious fields.
Lately we favor the proposition that bad behavior and unpleasant feelings are sicknesses or diseases of the brain. We believe doctors who specialize in behavior (but tellingly, not doctors who actually specialize in the brain) can solve social problems by medical means. We even tend to believe that scientific medicine is the best and most vital route to happiness in general.
We are apparently so far gone as to accept on faith that an individual read the rest here