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#566 Joel Paris: The Current State of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy

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What Is the Problem in Psychiatry?

All our disorders elistet in the manuals, ar based on symptoms, notn and they do not have a theory behind them. So there are no bible mockers in medicine. A brain scans don't have any clinical value in psychiatry. They're very non specific. And all these disorders are defined by their symptoms. Some people are proposing that we replace the categories of illness with broad dimensions,. similar to the five factory model of personality a. This is called the high top a method, the hierarchical way of describing pycho pathology but by means of scores. But again, these are only symptoms. They don't really explain the disorder. Even my own subspecially borderline personal disorder, is

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