http://mindhacks.com/2005/09/08/a-view-on-hospitalisation/ Neuroscience and psychology news and views. Fri, 24 May 2013 17:03:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://mindhacks.com/2005/09/08/a-view-on-hospitalisation/#comment-8256 Fri, 09 Sep 2005 19:41:01 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2005/09/08/a-view-on-hospitalisation/#comment-8256 There are so many ways to rebut that, yet I don’t know if I even want to bother, seeing as I’ve done
it so many times. Here’s an idea: read the blog entry regarding the discussion of the definition of mental illness in London.
Hospitals & drugs? That is a privilege mostly reserved and doled out by medical doctors and psychiatrists, not psychologists who go through different education, training, and practice. Psychologists aren’t even allowed to prescribe medical drugs! Profit making? Find me a science or endeavor of any sort that isn’t profit-making. Of course there is an ongoing mental health problem but guess what? The people in charge will, more often than not, put their funding elsewhere — like cancer. Not saying we shouldn’t study cancer, of course, but that there is considerably less funding in psychological research. Not to mention we are years behind — because our society greatly influences what we can and cannot research and only recently have mental illnesses gained the credibility they need to merit real scientific research.
Trend towards medication? Read the psychology research, Dr — a lot of it suggests the exact opposite: that clients with therapy do better than those with drugs, in the long term. Anecdotal evidence has been confirming that for years, and now we have the research to support it. I think the biggest problem in psyc, which leads to perceptions just like yours – is that people don’t know where to go for psychological services. They end up going to their family doctor and being given a steady stream of Prozac.
Too bad some people just don’t know better.

]]> http://mindhacks.com/2005/09/08/a-view-on-hospitalisation/#comment-8255 Thu, 08 Sep 2005 21:03:05 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2005/09/08/a-view-on-hospitalisation/#comment-8255 the industry of psychology is(appears to be) a way for a group of people to sustain themselves by delivering the mechanism of hospitals, drugs and consultation to the community. the industry is a closed shop of self-regulation (ama)and profit-making that fails to adress the ongoing problemof mental health in society. with the trend toward medication this situation will only continue.

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