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The Disconnect Between Medical Doctors and Mental Illness
Even psychiatrists, if you look at psychiatrists, they don't do a lot of psychotherapy anymore. Only 44 percent of psychotherapist office-based psychiatrists in 1996 did psychotherapy. Psychiatrists are moving more towards a pharmaceutical model as well and less to a psychotherapy model. These are all reasons why medical doctors really aren't equipped to deal with mental illness.