Mr. Medford,
Good to see you back. Yes, the research is replete with examples of how
stress can exacerbate mental illness. Stress has been associated with poor
performance on testing over sustained periods or intense effort,
particularly in relation to TBI. Where it appears to cause mental illness,
do you think perhaps it has just surfaced the latent pathology?
John H.
"Nick Medford" <nick at hermit0.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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> 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
