I need to add this : Psychiatrists plays a useful and essential role in the delivery of comprehensive medical care to a community. A near bankrupt US Veterans Administration pays them twenty thousand dollars a month, which sends us a message. They have access to drugs that did not exist only a few years ago, and offer a whole new world to the very ill - psychotic or in psychosomatic compromise, as well as ones who who just plain unhappy - neurotic or depressed. This care is not available to large segments of our population, and our 'allied' practitioners can and often do fill the void. This may explain their atttraction to persons who have the savvies and should know better, but rely on 'faith' and smile away rational belief for a fling at fancy and magic. I will not quarrell with an unreal remedy if the ailment is also a little touch of fiction. eric.
Eric is right. Psychiatry until recently, especially before it emerged from the Freudian flights of fancy, was also a quirky quack enterprise. Hopefully, some of us will be able to transform it into a complete science in the near future. Cheers, Santosh --- On Thu, 7/16/09, eric pinto <ericpin...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > In a few words, Santosh > has described a similar brand of medicine, much utilized > in the West : it is called psychiatry ! It is home to > several of its own 'schools,' some soggy and > idiosyncratic, with early forms bordering on > the ritualistic. Churchmen (Faith) were not exactly > mesmerized by Freud's 'quirky' discourses, in the > 1920's. As for 'hilarious', may be not, but the sad soul > probably leaves the couch momentarily happier. > eric. >
