Tuesday 5 February 2013

In the future people will look back with astonishment on times when a biological understanding of the brain was not seen as necessary to being a psychiatrist. Understanding of the mind begins with the acceptance that mind is the product of brain. All mental illness is because of physical defects in the biology of the brain. Still talking therapies are used. As if talking can alter physical matter. This is not to say that talking is not helpful to anyone who is suffering. Talking can alleviate pain from a broken leg even. The point is that it can not repair the brake in the bone. And talking will not repair he brain. See, here we act as though we had the power of telekenesis. Nowhere in known physics is it possible for a mind or an idea, something that has no physical properties to move a body. You can not lift your television with the power of your mind alone. I am sure it will become the consensus view that talking away mental problems, from schizophrenia to drug addiction is ludicrous. It is not a question of choice being a drug addict or a schizophrenic, it is not a spiritual failing, it is the result of brain biology.

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