Dr Thomas Szasz on Psychiatry

LOL@ psychology lagging behind medicine.

Clearly you've never been trained in either one.

Most of the research methods that made modern medical science possible were developed by psychologists. Everything correlation-based--regressions , factor analysis, double-blinding, assignment and control procedures, etc. You are just flaunting your utter stupidity.

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LMAO at your unblinking ignorance. So all diagnostics are either 100% accurate or worthless? Blood tests for diseases don't give false positives? LMAO!!!!

Are you trying to discredit the science of psychiatry, or are you trying to criticize the use of coercion in its practice? Two totally different issues. Not to mention that coercion has nothing to do with the "court-ordered" scenario you describe--it is proffered as an alternative remedy in lieu of sentencing that would otherwise be due.

High accuracy my ass, an fMRI can easily be duped. I guarantee you wouldn't be able to detect any lie I tell with one.

Let's try again: if I have an infectious disease, like the flu, a blood test and a microscope can validate if I have it or if I don't. No "accuracy" bullshit. I got tested for the swine flu, it appears I had it and now I got vaccinated so I don't get it again. Which court prescribed me to this treatment? Which doctor locked me up to make sure I don't refuse it?

Okay, let me be as robotically logical as possible:

1) fMRI is inaccurate, produces false positives and so is highly subjective how it's interpreted. Fact.

2) Therefore, it is not an objective test for detecting mental illness. Fact.

3) It discredits nothing (fact), just further proves psychology is decades away from being overhauled into a scientific, evidence-based practice like medicine was 1890-1930.

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psychology lack compasionate psychologists. Any psychologist that thinks that people "need" to be on medicine against their own wishes will never earn my respect.

Tons of my friends who were labled ADHD got off of their medicine the moment they could. I got off of my medicine the moment I could and I was labled schizophrenic. Not to mention we all live happy lives now. All the people I know who got better did so due to their own will and the people around them.

Didnt need to, Ive face the reality. The one psychiatrist fucked me up worse than any drug dealer/hustler Ive colluded with around the globe. Anyway, it either lie detects or it doesn't. What's this "fairly good" bullshit? If I have a broken bone, an X-ray will validate if it's broken or not, period. If my lie went undetected even once, then the device is inaccurate. As I said, the imagery is subjective and can mean what you want it to mean because nobody can interpret it yet accurately. Get it?

I repeat: correlation doesn't imply causation. Even if you can prove irregularities reported by the fMRI in a controlled test, you're still yet to prove that the irregularity is an illness. Btw, brain scanning is not related to psychology you illiterate fucking queer.

LOL@ your ignorance. I AM a psychologist, I was hired as an RA for two years in an fMRI lab. Brain scanning not related to psychology? I think not.

Just admit you don't know a thing you're talking about, apologize and leave.

Plenty of psychologists use various brain scans for pretty much every area of psychology research, from emotional states to detection of deception to perception and object recognition to clinical. You've pretty much just admitted to knowing NOTHING about psychology.