Yeah, I stumbled upon a similar Surgeon General's Report, the other
day, while Googling.
I couldn't believe it - my jaw hung down - it was as if I was
transported back into the Dark Ages.
It was a 'heart'-ache just to read part of it. Didn't see anything in
the Chapter from which I read that's True.
Where is Hope?
ken
Ian Goddard wrote in message <3d64408d.177492917 at news.erols.com>...
>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>>>
