Posted by Dinah on September 15, 2009, at 11:58:05
In reply to everything = everything, posted by psych chat on September 15, 2009, at 1:31:16
Well....
This is just my own thoughts, mind you, and I could be completely wrong.
My son and I are listening to "A Short History of Nearly Everything", and we recently listened to the sections on cosmology, and at the opposite extreme, quantum physics.
I interpreted what I heard to mean that they really don't understand everything. They come up with theories to try to fit the observed phenomenon into them. Those theories might be more right than anyone can now understand. But they might also be wrong, and will be superseded by as yet unknown theories.
I think psychiatry is not unlike this.
In the meantime, what's important is to improve the lives of those who deal with it. A combination of medication and therapy has been shown to be more effective than either alone, hasn't it?
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