The 1st Law of Psychiatry?
By ready2earn
@ready2earn (435)
Italy
January 14, 2007 6:12am CST
If the 1st Law of Psychiatry really is 'Never encourage unusual behavior', doesn't that exclude the accomplishments and contributions of a lot of unusually behaving people? It can and sometimes is said that humankind would be better off without any kind of technological development and that may be true, but we're where we are, under the impingent circumstances, for better and/or worser, and if the 1st Law of Psychiatry is 'Never encourage unusual behavior', doesn't that fairly begin with failure to control fire and the innovation of the wheel, for example?
(These points are so elementary that even a Geico advertising executive can understand them?) Rolling Eyes
If the 1st Law of Psychiatry is circumspected, is it not true that neither psychology nor psychiatry are sciences and for this reason have no authority to be conjuring - let alone functionally applying - any 'laws'?
If the First Law of Psychiatry really is trying to pass itself off as a scientific law, is that not unusual behavior and the pinnacle of duplicty? Is that not insanity, squared? Shocked
Post Script: 50% of the admitted patient hospital beds in the United States are psychiatric. Refer: insanity factory. Starting with the people in charge?
Any further commentary, criticisms, contributions are invited (as long as none of it constitutes or endorses unusual behavior?)
3 responses
@Wanderlaugh (1622)
• Australia
16 Jan 07
The first law sounds like a recipe for colossal oppression, like television. It's also a denial of fundamental characteristics of humanity, and therefore a worthless statement, particularly in a science that studies nothing but unusual behavior.
Fairly typical of the pitiful level of logic in formula-land philosophies.
Insanity factory: in terms of imposing one behavior pattern as the norm, however irrelevant to any given person that behavior may be, what else would you get?
It is SUPPOSED to be a clinical and practical science. That approach, however, is a form of waste management in terms of concepts.
@symontimea (842)
• Romania
14 Jan 07
good to know and it is right. interesting topic for a discussion
