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Psychology vs. Psychiatry
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Description: Be My Friend – www.myspace.com Dr. John Breeding, Ph.D. psychologist discusses the difference between psychiatry and psychology. Psychiatry focuses on medical or physical interventions such as drugs, electroshock therapy, deep brain stimulation by electrode, psychosurgery, etc. This is the model of biological psychiatry. Behavior problems are considered to be actual medical illnesses with physical causes despite the fact that after over 100 years of attempts to identify a physical cause for …
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November 8th, 2009 at 2:42 am
dude i agree 100% with him
November 8th, 2009 at 2:53 am
could you place sub-titles?
November 8th, 2009 at 3:15 am
could you please send me some of those studies that you are reffering to?
November 8th, 2009 at 3:56 am
Please….before you comment on this video….please understand what he is talking about. I cant stand it when I read all your guys BS answers….
November 8th, 2009 at 4:20 am
your boring as fuck, work on your delivering your shit a little better. maybe pronounce your words clearly. shit i just zonedout for 6 minutes and just woke up. what the hell are you talking about
November 8th, 2009 at 5:16 am
this guy is drunk!!!!!!!!!!!
November 8th, 2009 at 5:43 am
If you don’t een know who this is, it only showcases your lack of knowledge about the industry. He is a highly recognized and respected and outspoken critic of his industry. You’re not. Psychology doesn’t need anyone to make it look silly. It does fine by itself.
November 8th, 2009 at 6:00 am
I didn’t refer to a “study” in particular. There have been an unending number of studies that continue to demonstrate what I’ve referred to.
November 8th, 2009 at 6:35 am
actually that study was not about psychology, but about psychoanalysis ( which is wieved like a pseudo-theory by most psychologists). and it showed that medical students and psychoanalytics had the same success ratio.
November 8th, 2009 at 7:14 am
Psychiatry is not all about anti-depressants and you should not discriminate psychiatrists neither psychologists since you cannot treat some diseases without drugs neither you can treat all disease with a drug.
Both are important.
November 8th, 2009 at 7:47 am
Well ofc there will be different psychologists. Since there’s so many different types of therapy it’s hard to say that “psychologist” don’t know anything or can’t help.
Just look at rational emotive therapies, behaviour therapies and other cogntitive therapies in their fight against depression and anxiety. These are actually therapies that seem to work.
November 8th, 2009 at 8:17 am
i agree. check out the documentary ‘making a killing’. of course if it’s a disease – i.e. tested in the biolab – then drugs are indeed needed. but in majority of cases it’s like taking aspirin for headache (to the detriment of liver and other organs) or drinking water, going for a walk, reducing caffeine intake etc and WAITING at bit before reaching for that quick fix. there’s the difference between psychology and psychiatry for majority of people, they just need to be educated about choices.
November 8th, 2009 at 8:24 am
I completely believe in Psychology, and psychiatry… They both have their specific purposes, and both work together to treat the patients best interests… However, this guy is a total quack and makes psychologists look bad.
November 8th, 2009 at 9:14 am
There seems to be a rivalry between psychology and psychiatry. Ultimately patients suffer the consequences of this turf war! Just a thought of mine:)
November 8th, 2009 at 10:03 am
Actually, it makes absolutely no difference whether they (psychologists) have one or several dozen doctorates. It is (psychology) as credible as voodoo. In fact, numerous studies have been conducted and resulted in finding that untrained lay people actually have a higher success ratio than psychologists with Phd’s.
November 8th, 2009 at 10:28 am
Psychologist are a dime a dozen. Do not listen to them unless they have their doctorate. Furthermore, look at where they were educated. The ones that I have dealt with professionally, not personally, were most often an embarrassment to the profession.
November 8th, 2009 at 11:20 am
A psychlogist can only help the patient so much with a variety of methods, though in the end the patient is the one who needs to cure himself. To solve a problem you first need to know what it is; if the patient is able to acknowledge his problem he can begin to work on it. If he is unable to make that first step the patient will never progress any further.
Anti-depressants is just the placebo-effect. Its a mind trick that sometimes works.
November 8th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
Psychiatry have the medical companies support,
who is a major lobbyiest in the goverments.
Thats why we see so much on medical advancements on there products in the media.
which mostly is proved as a fraud in the end.
November 8th, 2009 at 12:41 pm
Why be harsh. I have TLE and thought the symptoms of TLE where extending in a postictal phase after clusters off seizures. It was a neuro-psych using the biomed approach that showed it was mania and psychosis brought on by seizures. And on any given day I was hypomanic (bipolar I).
My mania was caused by seizures and you could not help me, only a biomed DR could. Drop the labels and treat the illness, I still need to get jacked on nasty meds or I am dead. Be nice.
November 8th, 2009 at 1:02 pm
Yes
November 8th, 2009 at 1:38 pm
Psychotherapy and/or cognitive behavioral therapy has been proven to be just as effective as medication. There have been studies done by Penn and Vanderbilt to prove this.
November 8th, 2009 at 2:03 pm
i think you have some got thought, please broadcast more, i can learn something.
November 8th, 2009 at 2:07 pm
You can`t treat depression just by talking to a patient it depends by the type of depression.You need to give him anti-depressants.
November 8th, 2009 at 2:10 pm
Psychiatric illnesses can be approached in a number of different ways. The biomedical approach examines signs and symptoms and compares them with diagnostic criteria. Psychiatric illness can also be assessed through a narrative which tries to understand symptoms as a part of a meaningful life history and as a responses to external conditions.
November 8th, 2009 at 2:56 pm
Thats often the cause of the placebo effect rather than an actual science. Psychology in practice is usually alot more personal since it involves deep conversations with the paitent etc. I feel this helps the problem rather than simply ’sedating’ it with medication. However psychology has many weaknesses too and plenty of unanswered questions.