Introduction
The content of this website has been compiled to encourage medical professionals to use diagnostic thinking in a traditional medical model. The following 3 articles are intended to set the groundwork for all other articles posted on this site. Many articles are relevant to Primary Care Physicians and providers who provide a significant proportion of mental health care.
The Lost and Ignored Scientific Validity of Psychiatry from its Historical Roots to the Present by Hunter Yost MD There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance. Hippocrates If you don’t know history, then you don’t know anything. You are a leaf …
Understanding the historical development of the terms will shed some light onto the origin of the term ‘disorder.’ Robert Spitzer, MD was the guiding force behind the sea of change of the 1980 DSM-III. Spitzer, initially trained in psychoanalysis as per the psychoanalytic hegemony in the mid-20th century, quickly decided …
The origin of science is in the desire to know causes; and the origin of all false science and imposture is in the desire to accept false causes rather than none; or, which is the same thing, in the unwillingness to acknowledge our own ignorance. – William Hazlitt (1778? …