In article <3d62f359.92179446 at news.erols.com>, Ian Goddard
<igoddard at erols.mom> writes
> Modern
> psychiatry views such conditions as arising from organic brain
> disorders independent of environmental psycho-social insults.
Just out of interest, have you ever actually met a psychiatrist who
espouses this view?
I ask because I often read that modern biological psychiatry takes the
view summarised above, but have yet to meet *any* psychiatrist who
actually does take this view, despite working in a biologically-oriented
psychiatric research institute.
There is no reason at all to suppose that environmental and biological
explanations of mental illness are mutually exclusive. Indeed, it would
be bizarre to claim that they are. Equally there is no reason to suppose
that psychological and pharmacological modes of treatment are based on
mutually exclusive models. From what you say, you already realise this,
but I'm slightly baffled as to why you and many others appear to think
that nobody in psychiatry realises it.
--
Nick Medford
