On Thu, 22 Aug 2002, Nick Medford <nick at hermit0.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>In article <3d62f359.92179446 at news.erols.com>, Ian Goddard 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.
IAN: Well, I can't say that I've met Harold Koplewicz,
but he's a leading proponent of bio-psychiatry and I'd
say he speaks for psychiatry's new paradigm. He said
this at the White House Conference on Mental Health:
"It's hard to believe that until 20 years ago we still
believed that inadequate parenting and bad childhood
traumas were the cause of psychiatric illnesses in
children. And in fact, even though we know better today,
that antiquated way of thinking is still out there, so
that people who wouldn't dream of blaming parents for
other types of disease, like their child's diabetes or
asthma, still embrace the notion that somehow absent
fathers, working mothers, over-permissive parents are
the cause of psychiatric illness in children. ... the
only way we can change that is through more public
awareness. I mean, essentially, these are no-fault
brain disorders. These diseases are physiological, they
respond to medicine." -- Dr. Harold Koplewicz
>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
http://IanGoddard.net
Out-of-Body Explanation: http://iangoddard.net/paranorm.htm
