Psychology vs. Psychiatry
January 172010
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Dr. John Breeding, Ph.D. psychologist discusses the difference between psychiatry and psychology.
Psychiatry focuses on medical or physical interventions such as drugs, electroshock therapy, deep brain stimulation by electrode, psychosurgery, etc. This is the model of biological psychiatry. Behavior problems are considered to be actual medical illnesses with physical causes despite the fact that after over 100 years of attempts to identify a physical cause for mental illness, there are still none.
Often time people are given antidepressants like Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, Luvox, Celexa, Lexapro, Effexor or Wellbutrin.
SSRI (Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors) are often promoted as correcting chemical imbalances in the brain but there is no proof that depression or mental illness is caused by chemical imbalances in the brain nor is there any proof that antidepressants correct an imbalance. These medications often time have horrible side effects like agitation and sexual dysfunction.
Psychology by contrast acknowledges the potential of behavior problems being learned responses which can be corrected with therapy and communication, education and understanding.
There are no cures in psychiatry. Psychiatric medications only suppress or inhibit symptoms of behavior problems. This creates long term mental health consumers who take expensive drugs but never fully recover from their difficulties.
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January 17th, 2010 at 4:12 am
@biporio you ever …
@biporio you ever heard the quote “THIS TOO SHALL PASS.”?
January 17th, 2010 at 4:12 am
@energyeternal
If …
@energyeternal
If a doctor says you can cure the flu with vitamin C, it’s a LIE.
Psychiatry LIES when they say mental illness is caused by chemical imbalance, since they never proved it.
Say you can’t generalize this profession is like to say you can’t do the same for a “professional killer” class, cause some of them slay bad people( rough example, the point is not psychiatry kill people).
January 17th, 2010 at 4:12 am
@pathan92 I would …
@pathan92 I would pay him to scream “YOU SHALL NOT PASS!”
January 17th, 2010 at 4:12 am
@zwan94 I do feel …
@zwan94 I do feel better after half liter of wine. Hence…
January 17th, 2010 at 4:12 am
Most people favored …
Most people favored to psychiatry seems to be stuck in his own argument.
1. Psychiatry can help mentally ill people with meds.
2. You are mentally ill.
Hence:
3. Psychiatry can help you.
But:
2. Psychiatry can’t show one single proof that the problem is “in the brain”. They diagnose you with a “problem in your brain” based in an half-hour interview and “behavioral symptoms”. No brain scan.
A challenge: make an appointment. I dare you to leave without prescription.
January 17th, 2010 at 4:12 am
cont. …
cont. Psychological “theories” even the “medical” ones (the role of serotonin and dopamine in mood disorders, for instance) – are none of these things.
The outcome is a bewildering array of ever-shifting mental health “diagnoses” expressly centered around Western civilization and its standards (example: the ethical objection to suicide). This is nowhere remotely approaching medical science. It is purely and exclusively cultural, political, and philosophical.
January 17th, 2010 at 4:12 am
Mental Health …
Mental Health Scholars, regardless of their academic predilection, infer the etiology of so-called “mental disorders” from the success or failure of “treatment” modalities. This form of “reverse engineering” of scientific models is not unknown in other fields of science, nor is it unacceptable IF the experiments meet the criteria of the scientific method. The theory must be all-inclusive (anamnetic), consistent, falsifiable, logically compatible, monovalent, and parsimonious. …………cont.
January 17th, 2010 at 4:12 am
An inconvenient …
An inconvenient truth.
January 17th, 2010 at 4:12 am
yawn
yawn
January 17th, 2010 at 4:12 am
@kevinneslund Once …
@kevinneslund Once again, lacking any capacity for coherent response, you dicktuck.
Calling self-defence “homosexual” is like saying you’re a because you like an all-male music group named “Queen”. Oh, wait–Mercury died of AIDS now, didn’t he? I guess it’s totally different. LOL@ this guy who thinks he knows something about medicine because he sells crappy overpriced billing software to doctors who don’t know any better. Failure at life, failure at academics, failure at logic.
January 17th, 2010 at 4:12 am
Yawn……
Yawn……
January 17th, 2010 at 4:12 am
“Projecting”: A …
“Projecting”: A psychological defense coping mechanism employed by individuals whereby they will “project” onto others their own inadequacies and shortcomings in an effort to absolve and relieve themselves of addressing and rectifying them. See “IronMongoose1″.
January 17th, 2010 at 4:12 am
@kevinneslund I …
@kevinneslund I guess I also neglected the possibility that you didn’t watch (or perhaps didn’t comprehend) the video and didn’t get what my “strawman” statement was referring TO. Hell, there could be multiple layers of stupidity and ignorance underlying your remark. Who knows, coming from a B.A. in History who wound up working in sales? It could take a team of computational linguists, logicians, and educational psychologists DAYS to unravel the shitstorm of stupidity that you call your brain!
January 17th, 2010 at 4:12 am
@kevinneslund So …
@kevinneslund So which is it–do you not understand the meaning of “straw man”, or are you so ignorant about the subject matter that you cant comprehend how it applies in this situation?
Yeah, you can’t even figure out the answer to that question, can you, you dumb fuck?
January 17th, 2010 at 4:12 am
@kevinneslund If …
@kevinneslund If you don’t understand the point being made, just ask a grown-up nicely, and surely someone will explain it to you. The fact that you’re resorting to gay ad hominem and irrelevant arguments proves to everyone reading this that you have no clue what you’re talking about.
January 17th, 2010 at 4:12 am
Little goosey: …
Little goosey: Your psychological projecting needs attending to little buddy. Once again, while you yourself are sharpening up on just exactly what a straw-man fallacy is, you’d be well-served to look up what a metaphor is as well, in regards to the use of the word “treating” someone (medically) by “talking” with them. Physicians, or anyone for that matter, don’t administer medical “treatment” by chatting with someone, just like you’ll never come down with a case of “Spring fever”.
January 17th, 2010 at 4:12 am
@kevinneslund
If …
@kevinneslund
If you’re having trouble understanding my post maybe you should just look up “strawman fallacy”, you dumbass.
January 17th, 2010 at 4:12 am
It might prove …
It might prove advantageous were you to actually know what a straw man fallacy is. Hit the books big shooter and attend to your auto-erotic mildly homosexual self-defense videos.
January 17th, 2010 at 4:12 am
An Osteopath treats …
An Osteopath treats conditions of the bones. A psychiatrist does not treat any bodily organs or conditions. They talk to people.
January 17th, 2010 at 4:12 am
place subtitles …
place subtitles plus a sober person to speak for this man
January 17th, 2010 at 4:12 am
Yes, he is …
Yes, he is generalizing and going to the extreme. He can’t claim to know what people believe, and shouldn’t. I can see how he’s offensive with that, perhaps because a lot of people say that psychologists aren’t real doctors since they haven’t gone to medical school.
I guess he could have just said that psychiatrists tend to focus on the biological since that’s what they’re mostly trained in, while psychologists tend to focus on mental states since that’s what they’re mostly trained in.
January 17th, 2010 at 4:12 am
@mysteriomo It’s …
@mysteriomo It’s fair enough to say that economics affects the way in which people practice their profession. That is unarguable. However, this guy’s indictment of psychiatrists is absolutely offensive. He as a psychologist, of all people, should understand the Fundamental Attribution Error: psychiatrists spend more time with diagnosis and prescription because of the circumstances imposed on them, not their own beliefs or inclinations.
2 of the psychotherapists I respect most are psychiatrists.
January 17th, 2010 at 4:12 am
but psychiatrists …
but psychiatrists get paid to diagnose and administer drugs, while psychologists are paid analyse and counsel (if they’re working with people) -it’s all about the money ^^ (joke)
January 17th, 2010 at 4:12 am
This is absurd. …
This is absurd. Plenty of psychiatrists acknowledge the importance of multimodal treatment including counseling, lifestyle changes, social systems, etc.
Worst strawman argument EVER.
January 17th, 2010 at 4:12 am
A little …
A little clarification.
Psychiatrists can have an M.D. (Allopathic physician) or D.O. (Osteopathic physician)
Psychologists can have a Ph.D. (Doctor of Philosopy), a Psy.D. (Doctor of Psychology), or even an Ed.D. (Doctor of Education) depending on the school they attended.