dbags wrote:
celery wrote:
There is another way to cope with them. Just let them live and defecate on the streets.
But at the same time, I think anti-depressants are way over prescribed. And the field of psychology in general is respected far more than it deserves.
Why do you think this?
Also, psychology and psychiatry are completely different things; stop confusing the two.
Neuroscience study, and the various drugs that can help severely dysfunctional neural function are good. If that's what you mean by psychiatry, then I would agree that it has value.
As for psychology. Contemplating your own motivations is valuable to a certain extent. And doing so in the presence of another person who can provide feedback is also good. Understanding, and putting into practice the behavioral mechanisms that work to break bad habits and build good habits is also valuable.
So in a very limited sense, psychology has something to offer. But everything it offers, is not really anything more than the advise a wise mentor, or good parent, could have told you before psychology was ever invented. Had the field of psychology never been invented, the world would be just as good as it is today. In fact, it might have even been better. The post-Freudian impulse to attribute subconscious evil motives to people we don't like is a completely despicable impulse that is ruining our social fabric.
The fact that someone can tell their therapist a 30 year old repressed memory, and use that memory to destroy another person's reputation, without the aid of any corroborating evidence, and the fact that the whole world doesn't see how absurd that is, is the result of our post-Freudian world. So on balance, psychology is BS and gets way more respect than it should.